Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4507321-20161006033811/@comment-28809980-20170101181545

Hi, sorry I'm late to answer this message.

So far I have noticed a handful of things that could be interesting for the Manual of Style:

About infoboxes:

- It seems like people have difficulties making infoboxes. I think I'm going to contribute to the Manual of Style and explain how to make an infobox for Rips and Memes.

About rips:

- The introduction phrase is different between articles. It depends on the rips but maybe we should give a model.

- The section about the jokes of the rip: when the section is there, sometimes the name is "Jokes", "Memes", and in some old articles "Memes found in this rip". I think we should have a default name for the section.

- About how a melody is replaced by another, or a song is mashed with another: I think we should give a model phrase for this too. Sometimes I use "It is this theme in this game's soundfont" but technically it is better to just say "This melody is replaced with this other melody" because soundfonts only applies to sequenced music that doesn't use synthesizers, like GBA, DS, PS1, PS2. And we don't know how the rip was made.

About special rips:

- Some of the rips (and some memes) have lyrics, so it should be in a "Lyrics" section, and in the tags.

- Some of the uploads are videos, so they should have the category "Videos", and there shouldn't be a jokes section but sections like "Summary", "Description", "Plot" and "Transcript" instead.

About song lists:

- The tables have different formats (Author/Source is not always used). The "wikitable sortable" type of table is quite difficult to make, the only way I know is directly editing the source code.

- The lists with all the songs used in a Medley rip are different whether it is a big mashup (Trailer Theme, Reunited , File Select Fusion), or several songs replacing the theme (Astral Burst , Level 1 , Pause Screen , Stage Select ). For the first type, it should be important to have the beginning and the end timestamp of a song, while for the second type, only the beginning timestamp is enough.

- Like the other rips, the section name is not always the same: "Memes", "Jokes", 'References list", "Jokes list" (the one I use)...

About memes:

- The Memes pages are even more different in formatting between articles. The article should be descriptive about the use of the song in a rip, like in Megalovania, or Green de la Bean. If there is a Character associated with the meme, the character should be described in a different section (or page). So maybe we could do a "Rips" and a "Character" section? I tried to incorporate a "History" section in some of the pages since there was one in 7 GRAND DAD.

About categories:

- There is some confusion between 7 GRAND DAD and Meet The Flintstones, especially since I made the category: "Rips featuring Meet The Flintstones ". The category was intended to be for the actual song from The Flintstones with the original vocals. Only a few rips have these, like In The Pipe - Mario Party 2. But some 7 GRAND DAD rips were put in this category, since it's the same theme.

Also, Happy New Year 2017!