User talk:Garrettw87

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Re: Potential vandalism
listen, i've been blocked a few times because of the fight with the other editors in the past and i'm sorry for making "this bad faith" edit. you're not the only one who tells me about the rules. one of the admins did told me about the edting rules. i'm not sure if it's vandalism i may ask about the admin just in case if that helps you Kunoichi101 (talk) 01:22, January 4, 2018 (UTC)

re: infobox
With all of that being said, I greatly appreciate that you read a good amount of the rules before editing here, since most users don't normally do that. Makes things easier for other editors. 01:51, January 4, 2018 (UTC)
 * Portable infoboxes are infoboxes introduced by Fandom which are compatible with Fandom's mobile layout, in addition to the desktop layout. However, those portable infoboxes are rather inconvenient to use on this wiki. In short, we use infoboxes that depend on Semantic MediaWiki (SMW - example). SMW infoboxes carry specific functions for this wiki, and using portable infoboxes would wipe all of that out, thus we don't use them.
 * Infoboxes are used for extra information in regards to the subject of the page that is not included on the page itself, in the case of episodes, what chapter the episode is adapted from for example, where to watch it, its airdates, its corresponding arc, debuts, etc. The infobox that you used on the song pages was rather redundant, given most, if not all, of the information you put in the infobox was already explained in the first sentence of the page. If you feel differently, rather than unilaterally adding infoboxes to pages that don't use them without anyone else's consent, post a topic about it to ask the community and discuss about the significant change you are proposing. EDIT: Or take your own advice and create a sandbox to test your edits.
 * Read the documentation and look at how other pages use the infoboxes for some guidance on using infoboxes here.
 * Or, you could have read pages on the wiki and observed how things are done here. The rules and policies are guidelines on what is and isn't allowed, that's true, but they're not necessarily there to teach users how to edit. You learn that over time. Speaking of which, by the signature policy, since you are new here, you are allowed to use only one image for your signature for the time being.

Re: Thanks for the welcome
Portable infoboxes are a limited type of infobox that Wikia created and just imposed on wiki themselves. We don't use most Wikia features like those. We have a complex custom infobox setup that integrates with Semantic MediaWiki and Semantic Forms, so most of the data is dynamic and infoboxes are editable via form. Take a look at how the Episode infobox does it. I'm not sure how the song infobox is supposed to help navigation when looking at the items listed in it, all it does is duplicate the information that is in the intro paragraph in a less useful tabular format.

I'd also caution you against immediately titling your first comment with another user "Potential vandalism" and critiquing them for not talking to you first. It's rather tongue in cheek to criticize someone for not starting a discussion first when your own first response is to imply they're vandalizing the wiki instead of starting a discussion. Also we don't particularly follow every Wikipedia guideline, but you may want to re-familiarize yourself with wikipedia:WP:BOLD and wikipedia:WP:GOODFAITH before accusing someone of bad faith and stating someone shouldn't make an edit because they are not an admin. ~ Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk) 02:21, January 4, 2018 (UTC)