User talk:Shadow2

Hello

Are you by chance in relation to the user Shadow? Ganonmew, The Evil Clone 19:20, 2 October 2015 (EDT)

Chinese names

Sorry to be late by almost a month but the discrepancy between pinyin and the romanization is intentional, since it is the one used actually in-game in the Chinese version. Yes, I know it is obviously rushed, but it is the official one and therefore the one that we report. --Rdrfc (talk) 06:23, August 29, 2020 (EDT)

Your recent edits

Now I'm not sure if it's really worth mentioning which music tracks are used in which spirit battles, but what you could've done is to make all of your edits on the respective pages in one go rather than one at a time, as what you are doing is unnecessarily clogging up the "Recent changes" page. For a reminder, I recommend taking a look at this:

That's all I have to say. SuperSmashTurtles of the Turtle Tribe 03:25, February 13, 2021 (EST)

Oh boo hoo. Shadow2 (talk) 03:27, February 13, 2021 (EST)

This isn't a joke. As it states on this page for the Preview button: "too many edits to the same page can be annoying for other users". Several users on here are gonna want to check the Wiki's edit history to see if there are any edits that might need some fine-tuning or edits that should not have been made (whether it's misleading/incorrect info, unnecessary bloat, or full-on vandalism), so making several edits one at a time on several pages like that is going to make it harder to find unpolished or unwanted edits. You get what I'm saying?

Also, instead of making a response that's immature at best and hurtful at worst, how about making a more thought-out response, m'kay? SuperSmashTurtles of the Turtle Tribe 03:46, February 13, 2021 (EST)

It's easier for me to do this way because I have it all lined up alphabetically on an excel file. If you don't want me to add missing information to the Wiki, then I won't bother adding anymore. I so love when I get yelled at for trying to help. I see people making large amounts of edits in a row on other Wikis all the time with no issue, including Wikipedia itself. And yes it is worth mentioning, because this is the same Wiki that specifically outlines what every single unique piece of level geometry yields when Steve digs on it. Shadow2 (talk) 03:59, February 13, 2021 (EST)

Okay, let me break some of your points down.

"If you don't want me to add missing information to the Wiki, then I won't bother adding anymore."

I'm not asking you to stop adding missing info. All I'm asking is for you to make all your small edits at the same time rather than adding them separately.

"I so love when I get yelled at for trying to help."

All I'm trying to do is giving you advice I feel might be helpful. How exactly am I "yelling" at you?

"I see people making large amounts of edits in a row on other Wikis all the time with no issue, including Wikipedia itself."

Just because it may be okay on Wikipedia or other Wikis doesn't necessarily make it okay on here. I highly suggest reading this.

That's everything I have to say. SuperSmashTurtles of the Turtle Tribe 04:15, February 13, 2021 (EST)

Links

If a link redirects to an article instead of being a direct link, there isn't any reason to change it unless it goes to the wrong article or saves bytes. Also you don't need to add a colon to the beginning of interwiki links. --CanvasK (talk) 07:28, November 19, 2025 (EST)

What exactly am I harming by doing this? And furthermore, what improvements are you making to the wiki by undoing all of my work? Shadow2 (talk) 19:43, November 19, 2025 (EST)

By changing a redirect to a link to the same article the way you are doing it, you are: 1, using wiki server resources for no tangible change; 2, increasing the number of bytes that has to be sent and stored; 3, making the wikicode more complex in place of the templates; 4, wasting your time. By reverting those changes I am saving bytes and making the wikicode simpler and easier to read. Redirects exist to give readers an easier time searching for articles but also make wikicode simpler and easier to read for editors. --CanvasK (talk) 20:45, November 19, 2025 (EST)

"Wasting my time" is rude. I can spend my time however I please, thank you very much. Are you certain there's no performance issues by having readers needlessly be sent to a redirect and then sent again to the actual page? I liken it to an actual webpage that redirects you to a different page, which is double the workload instead of just sending you to the proper page. The wikicode is hardly complicated with these changes; that's reaching for straws. But I guess from now on I'll ask permission from another editor before I do anything on this wiki because I'm tired of having my work get undone for no good reason.. THAT is wasting my time. Shadow2 (talk) 20:52, November 19, 2025 (EST)

The wiki isn't like modern sites that are overcomplicated webapps that load a dozen pages just to send you to another one. Wiki redirects basically send you directly where they point to (unless you tell them not to but readers aren't doing that) and in my testing there's no change in load time that can't be explained by variations on the network or the ISPs. When presented with the option to use [[COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on competitive Smash|COVID-19]] or [[COVID-19]], [[List of major tournaments (SSBM)|major]] or {{SSBM|major}}, [[mariowiki:List of implied characters#Pengwen|Pengwen]] or {{iw|mariowiki|Pengwen}}, it always makes the wikicode more manageable with the latter options, even on simpler links like [[Trophy|trophies]] vs [[trophies]]. Even if changing it from a redirect to a link makes it only 1% more cluttered, that's a 1% that doesn't need to exist and can be avoided by just not making the change. And going from a link to a shorter/simpler redirect is nothing but beneficial. --CanvasK (talk) 22:22, November 19, 2025 (EST)

It doesn't matter, I'll be sure to ask you next time I want to change something. Shadow2 (talk) 23:10, November 19, 2025 (EST)