User talk:Meekee7

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Response to your message
Hello Meekee7

Thank you so much for appreciating my work for the Zero Punctuation Wiki. I too am very grateful for your own contributions, even if sometimes you miss a few words.

With regards to your advice that I have removed for our safety, I already know the method. But as for writing the transcripts, the Flash-based video player doesn't bother me. Not that I'm gloating or anything, but I am quite capable of remembering even a few sentences of Yahtzee's fast speech to start a paragraph without watching it at slow speed. Occasionally, I do play it back a bit to make sure I get the words right and google it to know how to spell the words, and get the external links while I'm at it, but as you are already aware, I can hold my own in writing.

Thanks anyway.

Real response
I think the above message was automated, because I never typed that. In fact, I just read the message 5 minutes ago. So, I read your message, and I'm glad you appreciate my contributions. I usually wait until the videos are uploaded to youtube anyway. I can actually remember most of what Yahtzee says after listening to it over and over to make sure I'm not hearing it wrong. But I digress. I'm glad you appreciate what I've done for this wiki, and I plan to continue contributing.

Sincerely, DBZFan12 (talk) 16:17, August 29, 2014 (UTC)

Response to your message
Hi, thanks for the advice. Much of what I would be about to say has already been said by DBZFan12, but I'd also like to add that I actually am subscribed to the Publishers' Club, and so I could, if necessary, just download the videos directly from The Escapist through the HTML5 player. But I can also keep up with Yahtzee quite easily, so it's kind of a moot point.

Still. thanks anyway, again. YellowMage (talk) 00:58, September 2, 2014 (UTC)

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You should probably make an w:Adoption:Requests so we there's an admin for this site.

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Question regarding whether to include emphasis in the transcripts
Hi, I've been advised by the Fandom staff to bring this up to you as you're the admin of the wiki. There's an issue I'd like to raise to get some proper consensus on it and avoid escalating the situation into an edit war.

As part of my edit contributions to the transcripts on the wiki, I normally also include certain words in italics to highlight where Yahtzee emphasizes certain words. This other user on the wiki, however, disagrees that this italicization should be a part of the transcript and has been reverting this on more recent episode transcripts.

This normally would be something I'd overlook, were it not for a few things - firstly, this individual has previously told me in an earlier back-and-forth on their talk page that they don't really care for vocal emphasis, which would erroneously imply that they'd simply leave it as is and move on. And they haven't.

Secondly, this person is, by their own admission, a relative newcomer to the wiki (having been editing it since the start of this year), so their apparent refusal to budge on the issue is a bit concerning.

And thirdly, their justification for continuing to do it (visible in the edit history for the The Good Life review) amounted to, "I can comprehend Zero Punctuation scripts just fine without needing to have emphasis on certain words spelled out for me." (direct quote). This strikes me as a pretty flimsy reason, not only because one person being able to personally comprehend it doesn't by itself mean everyone will comprehend it (particularly given some of the corrections I've made on past transcripts and some mistakes that even I missed in later edits), but if having it spelled out was such a redundancy, that hangs a pretty massive question mark over why they'd even be involved in a transcript wiki in the first place.

The reply I got back from the Fandom staff member I contacted has said, "My personal opinion is that italics to emphasize parts of speech is not harmful and could help others understand the context of a statement and I see no harm in highlighting that", but I need some more opinions on what to do, and she has also advised me to contact you about this - is it reasonable to include vocal emphasis as part of the transcript?

Side note, yes I am aware that the past year or two has had The Escapist adding official transcripts below their videos, but not only do they not include italicization in any capacity (let alone for emphasis), but my experience creating the two Extra Punctuation transcripts has demonstrated to me that even the official transcripts are capable of being wrong. Or at the very least, different from what's said in the video. Artemy Musha (talk) 18:59, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

While waiting for Meekee to respond, I would just like to apologize for acting out of line. I will at least try to refrain from deleting italics in the future. I think part of it may stem from the fact that I did actually include vocal emphasis on one sentence on my first page, but it was deleted by another user. In retrospect, maybe I should've brought that up with said user sooner. KnackisCack42 (talk) 21:33, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

I have noticed your discussion and your request. If this problems persists, then it seems that we need to come up with some kind of transcript style guide. Meekee7 (talk) 00:30, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

I was thinking the same thing. Not sure where to put it other than some kind of meta/admin page on the wiki itself. Artemy Musha (talk) 10:58, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Style guide
Hi there, I've kept in mind your idea for a style guide and started one up. I'm not sure where to put it to get some more eyes on it. Where would you suggest? Artemy Musha (talk) 18:28, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

We could turn that into a special page and place it in a category like Community or Help. Meekee7 (talk) 23:57, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

That makes sense. I'm not sure how to start doing that though, I'm assuming it's a lot more than just clicking "Add new page" and then titling it "Style Guide" or something. Artemy Musha (talk) 11:54, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

I have created the page Help:Transcript Style Guide. Edits to this page (and other special pages like templates or talk pages) will not show up in the little "recent edits" box. But they will show up on the Recent Changes page.