Talk:Neopia

Neopia, the Universe, and Everything

"It's unknown if this planet is within our own solar system/galaxy, or an entirly different one."

Considering environmental conditions are similar to Earth's, it cannot be in our solar system. There is not much to support it may be in an "entirly [sic] different [galaxy]", either, as Earth as we know it does not exist in the Neopets Reality, except in the odd break-the-forth-wall Neopian Times articles.

*sigh* This article needs a really, really major overhaul. A really big one. --Macbeth 15:22, 15 Jun 2007 (UTC)

Had to laugh when I saw the topic title :D. Considering the fact that the Neopian climate can not be compared to the one on Earth, I think the environment section needs to be deleted. It contains just speculations of what the climate would be classified as if Neopia was Earth.--Demon 16:30, 15 Jun 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, the entire article needs to be taken back to the drawing board. Along with figuring out a way to standardise the World articles in general... *sigh* Another note hastily scribbled on a post it for my fridge, I suppose. :P

We should have some sort of NeoDex post-it board... Some sort of Flash front for a database where editors can put up post-its of notes to do... --Macbeth 20:55, 15 Jun 2007 (UTC)

New sections really are needed, aren't they? I don't think we should delete the environment section, due to it being nessesary to point out the oddities in climate differences in Neopia (The Ice Caves connecting in a path to Tyrannia, a desert, as an example). We only need to have summaries of course, as the main details of environment can be given in each worlds main article.

The mentioning of Earth in "Environment" isn't nessesary, as we should just have to mention the climate in general. In fact, the only sections which should even mention Earht is the beginning ("Neopia is a planet similar to Earht" as example) and a section debating where Neopia exists in the universe, and if it is in the same one as ours.

On "post-it notes", we do have our user pages, which can be used as such (and have been used). We also have the community portal to discuss what needs to be done, and the goals and collaborations section on what we need to be working on collectively. And of course their is the basic construction category we can always visit. Do these suffice? --Jacob 01:48, 16 Jun 2007 (UTC)

Oh, yes, there is just something quirky and friendly about post-it notes. :P --Macbeth 14:16, 16 Jun 2007 (UTC)

On World Articles

Fairfax? I think I've cracked it. We're riding on the wrong side of the road.

Oh, I mean, I think I've cracked the World articles. Basically, as I think we have all sussed, we need a sorta infobox template a la the games pages. The main problem, here, has been representing the worlds. Well, TNT, those clever devils, handed us the answer. How about the world placards on the world games pages? neopets.com/games/arcade_more.phtml?world_id_g=[1-20]

They exist for all worlds (including mini-worlds) minus Jelly World (it has a page, id 13, of course, but no image). They are just the right size to head an infobox template, methinks. --Macbeth 21:55, 21 Jun 2007 (UTC)

I don't know...I don't think King Hagan's face properly portrays the land of Brighvale. :o If all else, we can simply manipulate the images we've uploaded into smaller versions, be it the "thumb" tag (if the wiki coding is ever updated), or by reuploading a smaller version (as i've done with the images on the Neopia article). On a template, yes, it can be done, but i'm hesitant on the design. would it simply incorporate the "see also" section we've created thus far? and speaking of templates, some have already been created...just not used, or edited right. I pretty much dropped it thus far. :S --Jacob 22:10, 21 Jun 2007 (UTC)