User talk:Hakinu

What are the smaller symbols over larger ones for?
I had to ask ShonenSuki something, and I happened to see your post while I was there. I can't read kanji or any other Japanese writing, but I do know that those smaller symbols are called furigana. They're used to help the reader with pronunciation, I think. Darth Havoc (talk) 04:07, 9 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Darth Havoc is right, the smaller signs are furigana, usually written in hiragana or katakana. The basically show how a kanji is supposed to be pronounced. For example, the kanji would have the hiragana じんちゅうりき as the furigana. However, they can also be used to bring more nuance to the text. To take 人柱力 as an example again: it wouldn't be strange to see these kanji with the katakana, for example when an Akatsuki member is talking about Naruto as the jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails. I've also seen the kanji for  and  with the names for Sasuke and Itachi as furigana, or those of Gaara and Kankurō. --ShounenSuki (talk 09:40, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Narutopedia Ranks
Those are obsolete. We used to alias bureaucrat=kage, sysop=jonin, rollback=tokubetsu jonin, user=genin, anon=academy student just for some fun. However I removed this recently because people started to ask for "chunin exams" and "promotions" and were turning simple permission flags into a social status game. The userboxes were created then. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) May 16, 2009 @ 19:17 (UTC)

Parallels to "foreign" games and series
Some people tend to add parallels to other games and serieses hinting that Naruto is some kind of a rip-off of that game or series. From the top of my head I can only recall the parallel put to some monster in Dragon Ball called Ino Shika Cho, some minor (I think) Naruto character had "strong resembelence" to some Bleach character, and then we have these quotes: "Rock Lee (like several other characters through the series) hold a strong resemble and may even be based off of video game character Wangtang from Capcom's Arcade game, Power Stone. (...)". Are these things okay to have in the articles, or should they be removed? ~Hakinu (talk 21:13, 3 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Those kind of statements are pure speculation, they have no basis to them. Frankly you can round up a few dozen anime/manga/games, look for similarities between characters in them, and you're almost guaranteed to find some. If you're looking for something you're going to find it, that doesn't mean it's at all relevant to the series. If someone had some citation that Kishimoto was influenced by something, coming from an interview, then ya it makes a good trivia note. But comparing naruto to X of Y type of media and saying that part of naruto MIGHT be based on it, is junk. There's far more complexity to that, it could be completely random, or it could be that both of the things were influenced by the same thing, that doesn't mean any relevance between them. For example, Soul Eater has Shinigami, Bleach has Shinigami, and Death Note has Shinigami. All are based of Japanese Shinigami, that doesn't mean that the series have any connection to each other or were based on each other in any way. While this one is obvious a lot of these subtle "might be based off of" may actually be because there was something they both were based on in Japanese myth which we, as foreigners are not familiar with. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Jun 3, 2009 @ 21:22 (UTC)

Re: Now this is utterly embarrassing.
Hiya, long time no see ^^

before I do anything wrong, you still want this page deleted? —ShounenSuki (talk 00:05, June 21, 2011 (UTC)


 * ^^ There you go. —ShounenSuki (talk 08:43, June 21, 2011 (UTC)

Re: Eyooo~ :D
Welcome back. Sure I still accept block suggestions, even though the amount has dropped since Omnibender got promoted. Anyway, the character in question isn't a filler. His name is Okisuke. He is a Samurai that served as bodyguard for the samurai general Mifune. There isn't much more to say.

I hope I will see your signature in some notification about new edits. ^_^ Jacce | Talk | Contributions 04:30, June 22, 2011 (UTC)

Aspect Ratio
Hey there, I don't have much time to spend with the Narutopedia and I'd normally do this myself but is it possible you could go through all the images before Shippuden Episode 54 and if they appear to be landscape, not portrait, tag them with ? It'll help to fix incorrect ratios on such images. Thanks! :) --Speysider Talk Page 12:51, September 30, 2012 (UTC)

Re: File:Haido Front.jpg
Hey. I'm just wondering at which specific part of the Stone of Gelel movie you got this image from. Thanks! --Speysider Talk Page 17:00, January 4, 2013 (UTC)

Re: Soooo much stuff has changed...
Not sure what you are after, I have no problem finding Shikamaru's page. It's right here. If you are having problem with the visual editor you can deactivate it in your preference, under editing. Welcome back. Jacce | Talk | Contributions 18:59, August 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * Welcome back Hakinu. :) --SuperSajuuk Talk Page 13:30, August 20, 2014 (UTC)

Re: Eh... by the way...
It's back. I haven't seen Simant lately, so nowadays it's me, Omnibender, Snapper2, Ten Tailed Fox, TheUltimate3 and UltimateSupreme. Jacce | Talk | Contributions 03:29, August 22, 2014 (UTC)
 * Not to be a total jerk or anything like that, but I think you should have worked in the community more before getting your rollback flag restored instead of simply asking to get it back. Plus, you could have asked any rollback user for it back, as any rollback user is able to grant the flag to others (I appreciate you wouldn't have known that though). It's great you are now a rollback again, but it may have been better for you to work in the community more, since people with the rollback have more rights than the flag used to have. --SuperSajuuk Talk Page 09:46, August 22, 2014 (UTC)
 * That's fine. I was originally "Speysider" on the wiki, before I changed my name earlier this year. Regarding images: there are less issues with this, due in part to the customisations made by UltimateSupreme to the uploader. There are a few new templates you might find useful though:
 * , and : A three-strikes system of warnings which covers all policy violations on the wiki, including images.
 * People tend to add images to their userpages, but this messes up Special:UnusedFiles (this page only covers images not in use on any part of the site): this template tags any images which aren't used in articles in a category that most of the sysops track for images that need to be deleted (eg an image that is only in use on a userpage or forum and not in any article would be tagged with this)
 * Images that are not in the appropriate aspect ratio are tagged with this. This is very rarely used, but it helps to ensure images don't make people look like they're bloated xD. I believe some images may still be improperly ratio'd but I think the amount is much smaller than it used to be.
 * Regarding the rollback flag, you now can:
 * Grant the flag to other people through Special:UserRights (you can't remove the flag once granted though)
 * Moderate the forums by editing anyone's posts (eg removing illegal links, images that are only in use on the forums etc)
 * Move files to new names (this essentially negates the requirement to use )
 * Suppress redirects being made when moving articles or files to new names (this is particularly useful for those involved in moving images to new names)
 * If there's anything you aren't sure about, feel free to give a nudge. As a user who is chiefly involved in the use of the images, you might find it useful to enable this script in your wikia.js on the wiki. :) --SuperSajuuk Talk Page 12:41, August 22, 2014 (UTC)
 * No problem! Glad to see you back, I simply found it strange that you got rollback back so fast. Hope you'll stick around for a while! :P --SuperSajuuk Talk Page 12:50, August 22, 2014 (UTC)