User:KelvSYC

Hi there and welcome to kelvSYC's little corner of Wikibooks!

I'm a contributor to the various game guides here at Wikibooks. Among my significant projects include the Wikibooks Pokémon Guide, which tries to be the companion to the English Wikipedia's w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokédex, and Mega Man Battle Network, a book dedicated to the video game series.

I am also an administrator here at Wikibooks (and in no other Wikimedia wiki). If you have some important Wikibooks-related admining to do, then you should leave a message at my talk page. I will try to check VFD and speedy weekly and delete all the filth there, as a continued commitment to an admin. I also intend to strictly enforce the intention of Wikibooks as a repository of instructional material.

My admin philosophy
Many people (wikipedians especially) are in the belief that Wikibooks is just a repository of book-length material, and thus believe that Wikibooks can be a place to expand Wikipedia articles in the hopes of making it an in-depth encyclopedia. This is contrary to WB:WIN. I do aggresively seek out article forks and nominate them for VFD, but I do this infrequently due to the possibility of organic growth and the fact that I have better things to do.

I am also a proponent for enforcing the Wikibooks naming conventions, but I rarely do so due to other commitments and the acknowledgement that it is a gradual process (MediaWiki, however, is very weak in regards to managing how books are organized - tree-like subpage or graph-like namespace conventions are still very arbitrary and have weak back-end support).

Let me remind you that Wikibooks is a place for instructional material. VFD precedents have shown that an encyclopedia article or a long biography is not instuctional material in and of itself.

My projects
Here are the big books I've been working on lately:

Mega Man Battle Network
I'm the founder of this book, which attempts to be a complete strategy guide to the game. Currently I am working on the walkthrough of BN5, others may come later.

The following is my BN5 to-do list

To do

 * Team ProtoMan dialog
 * finish price lists in Higsby's chip order
 * finish patch code list for infinite chips in folder
 * how do I fit in Number Trader codes, NCP compress codes, etc...?

Pokémon
Pokémon is another book that I have created, among which Wikibooks Pokédex is the big part (and constitutes one of the larger Wikibooks). Since WB Pokédex is the largest part of Pokémon, currently a lot of it is data (and thus not very instructional in nature). I hope that contributors can help put more emphasis on teaching others how to finish the game.

The following is my WB Pokédex to-do list

To do list

 * Update all move lists for Emerald
 * FL/E move tutor moves
 * Links to Wikipedia's Pokédex (although I'd have to deal with some merge talk there)
 * Perhaps go over the level-up movelists for each series and check if the evolution section needs to be updated (eg. a lower form learns a move but the higher form does not) — or perhaps just eliminate the evolution section altogether...
 * More Japanese/English parity - eg. only the English cards are listed here so far...
 * EX Emerald card lists...

When WP started, MediaWiki was in its early 1.3 stages, and templates containing links didn't work as most people planned it to work (eg. had two template parameters and not one, so you could never use piped links). But now that it works, I may want to redo the evolution templates.

The major obstacle to making templates out of the move tables is the 5 inclusion limit currently in MW 1.3. I'd like to standardize widths and mess with the look with CSS a bit later on, so that there is more uniformity in each entry. Now that it's resolved in 1.4, the conversion process can get under way, although it will take a while as I try to perfect my styles.

Other plans for Wikibooks Pokédex include:
 * Attack index for the RPGs (I'm currently considering whether to include them in the Pokédex or put them elsewhere)
 * Super Smash Bros movelists for the relevant Pokémon (or at least a link to the appropriate book...)
 * Petitioning for a separate namespace, or alternatively, moving to use the standard subpage convention?

Related Pages

 * For my work in Wikipedia, check out w:User:kelvSYC (talk)
 * For my work in Wiktionary, check out wikt:User:kelvSYC (talk)