User talk:GrampaSwood

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Re: Festivizer images

Hi, you mentioned my uploads being lower quality, but you linked to the old image that I am replacing.

My images have not been succesfully cached yet. I have included an example of the image you are referring to that I uploaded a new version of.

https://imgur.com/a/XhGgnmi

My HLMV settings are set according to the guides in the help section, and I do have 8x antialiasing on via nvidia settings. I did, however, downscale some of these a little, and may need to try and retake some if this is still not considered an improvement over the inaccurate, low-quality prior images.

EmilyEmbers (talk) 20:44, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

I compared the older upload, your newer upload, and the other Rocket Launcher upload. They may not have been cached on your end yet, but I had the right images on mine. Try CTRL + F5 on the image if it doesn't show up properly.

The downscaling likely ruined the image, so I advise to not do that for any image.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 20:48, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Downscaling manually via an image manipulation program will cause either bluriness or choppy-looking edges. If you would like to downscale, it's ideal to do that on HLMV itself, by zooming out a little. - ▪ - 20:55, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

I see it now, you're right, I needed to refresh the cache. I'll see about potentially fixing it later.

EmilyEmbers (talk) 21:20, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Restored redirects

Why restore them? A few years ago, pretty much all names of items were changed, so all words are no longer capitalized like in the English language. I already created redirects with the correct names. Why leave the old ones? Now if someone would want to search them, there will be two identical results, with one using the old incorrect version. Denied (Talk) 15:40, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Redirects are to redirect people to the correct article even if they had the wrong name, see: Solider, Mann in Slacks, or Axetinguisher. Old names are also kept, including capitalisation changes, see: Claidheamohmor, Train Of Thought, Creature From The Heap, Mister Sentry. A redirect having the old name is exactly what they're for, to help users that may not know or remember the exact name. Redirects, in general, are also not harmful enough to be deleted.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 15:47, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Even if literally nothing links to them? They are used only in the search window. It's not a completely new name, like "Mister Sentry" to "Aim Assistant." And most of the examples you linked are misspellings or grammar mistakes that make more sense in English only. Polish translations are still the same; only now there are two results with the same name and directing to the same article. If there will be any major changes to translated items (which are very rare), then having both old and new names makes sense. Denied (Talk) 18:44, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Yeah looks fine. If you type "Kucyk B" then the other one doesn't show up. Not everyone uses the search bar either (I navigate by changing the URL or using the shorthand wiki.tf). Similarly to all other capitalisation-related, these are just fine and there's generally no reason to have them deleted.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 18:49, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Is it possible to implement a search bar used on Wikipedia so when a user switches to the Polish interface and types "Kucyk bohatera", "Kucyk Bohatera", "KUCYK BOHATERA" etc., it will always show the correct article without creating every possible redirect combination? Or was it already suggested? Denied (Talk) 07:48, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure it's possible to do that with our version of Mediawiki, but maybe in the future if we ever upgrade versions. But for now, it makes the most sense having the old name still as a redirect (even if we had that search bar system in place).
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 14:12, 9 January 2025 (UTC)