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Why are we here?
The answer is simple, yet complex. Some of us are here to aid in cataloging all the cards that exist. Others because we love everything about it. In many ways, we seek to integrate everything we see in sites like Ideal808, Upper Deck Entertainment, the Yu-Gi-Oh Info on Netrep, GameFAQs, and info from sites like Pojo and Metagame. Also these sites could help Manjyome Thunder, Shriek, Janime and [http://yugiohfans.co.uk/.html Yu-Gi-Oh! Fans]

To integrate all the reference material you see there... that is our goal. To be the best and most dedicated website in existence to all players and fans alike of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Universe, and above all, to be totally 100% free to use and quote material from.

Database Update
We are currently in the process of updating the image database in accordance with our new Image Policy. During this time, some images may be unavailable.

Please do not be offended if images you have contributed disappear from the list available under the "My Contributions" tab on your user space. To standardize filenames, images must be downloaded, saved under the new name format, and then re-uploaded. Although this does remove your credit byline from the image page, it does NOT affect your overall contributions.

Contributors
To make contact easier with the main Site Maintainers, here is a list of contact details for members that wouldn't mind lending a hand to new people:

Bureaucrat


 * TwoTailedFox (TwoTailedFox@Gmail.com)

Admins


 * Narchibald84 (narchibald84@hotmail.com)
 * Pcouw (drrichardsaari@hotmail.com)
 * Vyse24 (Vyse2487@Gmail.com)
 * LeafGreen Ranger
 * AnnaV
 * Van Ludwig
 * Deus Ex Machina
 * Deltaneos‎

Volunteers
 * Big Boss 0
 * User:Andersmusician

Japanese names
For the cards, would it be possible to provide Romanized and translated (if not already in English) names?--208.252.179.26 03:16, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I eventually plan to offer an English Name -> Japanese Name -> Translated Japanese Names tabled at some point. Stay tuned.--TwoTailedFox (My Talk Page) 11:20, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Tagged Images
Would it be possible to use the new tagged image thing for card trivia, etc? (See example at Image:ReinforcementoftheArmyLOD-EN-SR.jpg.) --Miff Falden(tlk 03:03, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi everyone, dont know what you mean here miff thefox, about images I think we should add some fair use license template, for not breaking the law, what do you think? --Andersmusician $  00:48, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Making lists more useful
The current state of lists seems a bit unsatisfactory to me. Leaving aside bad formatting and incompleteness, it's the scarcity of information which annoys me most. There's the card names followed by centimeters, even inches, of blank, unused screen space.

What about giving basic statistics for each card in the lists? We can even make tables and thx to techies running Wikia, even sortable tables (see User:Pjacobi/tabledemo). I'm rather puzzled, why class="sortable" is available but class="prettytable" doesn't work. Perhaps because the latter is left to the individual Wikias.

Of course such a change would be a lot more realistic, if these enhanced list can be generated offline from some database or on this Wiki using a bot or a bot-assisted editor.

Pjacobi 15:59, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Image request
Hi. If anyone could get card images of: That'd be just great. Rodtheanimegod4ever 01:26, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Carat Idol
 * Larva of Moth
 * Pupa of Moth

THIS IS URGENT!

 * hey can sum1 put in the new episodes 4 season 4? -- edited by:Ogi [[Image:Wind.gif]]
 * Technically, Season 4 is not out yet. We're still in Season 3.  Minhtam2448 23:24, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Please don't use "This is urgent" for non urgent matters. Thanks.


 * Hey, if i have a bazoo the soul eater(with the historical text version), then can i use it with the 'remove cards from graveyard' effect instead of 'remove monster from graveyard' effect if i want to play it in an official way? Need someone to clarify this ASAP as i need to rebuild my deck. thanks. -- edited by Czl1992
 * Go by whatever's on the most recent text, regardless of which text is on your card. In this case, you can only remove monsters for Bazoo's effect, no matter which card you use. --Deltaneos 10:41, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Fusion

 * I move to add a section of monster card pages to indicate what a monster can be fused into. Especially with E-heroes, this could potentially save a lot of confusion. You know, just an idea... --Phred 19:58, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Ironoid

 * I'm iffy on the card Ironoid. There are no other websites with this card nor has anyone ever even seen the artwork. Google comes up with 10 searches; two of them our own site and the other 8 random sites not pertaining to Yu-Gi-Oh in any way or manner. -- Huajun Chen 15:48, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. Yu-Gyo.com doesn't have it, people selling every other DM1 card on ebay don't have it, that cute little site where I got our first pictures of PG, TP, and FOTM doesn't have it, Pojo's never heard of it, etc. etc. My guess, this id just another rumor, like "Dark Master Exodia" or "Foam Neos". I'll remove my request for it and terminate all links to it. then, someone can delete it. Rodtheanimegod4ever 21:12, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Disagreement in extremis! At times, it actually helps to LOOK at sites before condemning them. For example: Just because you can't find a picture of something doesn't ALWAYS mean it doesn't exist!
 * - gives full details on Capsule Monster: Breed and Battle, and lists promo cards...which happen to include "ｱｲｱﾉｲﾄﾞ" (Ironoid)
 * - someone who actually HAS the card in question has it listed on their trade site
 * --Narchibald84 09:30, 22 September 2007 (UTC)


 * LATE. -- Huajun Chen 13:35, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Notice to contributors and mods
If you were wondering just what in the holy hell I’ve been doing the past three days, filling up the Recent Changes section with a gazillion categorization edits, let me explain: TwoTailedFox recently stated “categorization slows a wiki down” or something among those lines. While I agree with that statement, I still think some form of organization is necessary for this website to flourish.

Merged Pages and Categories

 * Gameplay: The Basic and Advanced Gameplay categorizes have been combined into one mega-category. The numerous sub-categorizes that were formerly part of the Basic Gameplay have been cut down and also been moved to the mainstream Gameplay category. This new category is very broad—the whole reason why I underwent major revamping—but its border is thick enough to separate the term “replay” from pages in a whole other realm.


 * OTK, FTK, Lockdown: Notice how these three items no longer have categories? That’s because they’ve either they have become a deck type or moved to their respective Card Trivia pages. There’s no such thing as a lockdown without a deck built around it or an OTK that doesn’t require less than two cards.


 * Anime Terminology: Pages like “KaibaCorp”, “Electrodes”, and “Armor of Unity” have been merged and classified into their respective pages, depending on which series they belong in. The exception to this is the Millennium Items, seeing as they’re practically the symbolic centerpieces of the original anime.


 * Character Pages: The Ghouls, the Society of Light, the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX minor characters, etc, have all been merged.


 * Card Lists: Remember the massive amount of card lists we had just a few months ago? Notice how they aren’t there any more? Because really…how many people will type in “card lists” in the search engine? Isn’t it so much simpler to put information directly in front of them, rather than make them do all the work and searching? It’s because either:
 * They have been converted into templates. (Ex: Amazoness card list, Ninja card list, BEWD card list)
 * Deleted, because they’re useless. (Ex: Vampire card list, Sphinx card list)
 * Moved to their appropriate content page and abridged under a dynamic box, the same ones we use for the character decks (Ex: Counter Trap Cards card list, Field Spell Cards card list)

Card Trivia

 * Some people seem to not understand what "card trivia" is. The following is accounted as card trivia:
 * The Japanese name of a card (Ex: Sangan is called “Critter” in Japan.) There are a million and a half ways to translate Kanji into English. Before you add in a Japanese name on a trivia page, first check it up on Google or another search engine to make sure it’s widely accepted in the fandom. An example of this would be Graceful Charity’s Japanese name. It can be correctly translated into “Angel’s Charity”, “Angelic Charity”, or even “Angelic Almsgiving”. However, the most widely known Japanese name for Graceful Charity is “Angel’s Gift”.
 * Ties to historical background such as religion, literature, art, or geography.
 * The cover pages of booster packs, etc. that the card appears on. (Example: Archlord Zerato is the cover page for Ancient Sanctuary booster.)
 * Artwork censoring, in terms of sexual suggestiveness, religious offense, etc., from the OCG to TCG. Most censors include taking out the halos of fairy-type monsters, covering up the cleavage of female monsters, the demon horns taken off fiend-type monsters, or taking out the crucifix. (Examples: Shining Angel had a halo)
 * Redrawn card artwork. (Examples: Otohime, Soul of the Pure)
 * Progressive storylines that a series of cards tell. (Warrior Lady of the Wasteland was once D.D. Warrior Lady after being returned from the different dimension as seen in Karma Cut and Different Dimension Gate.)
 * Other card artwork that the card has appeared in. (Example: The man from Second Coin Toss appears in the artwork of Goblin Out of the Frying Pan, holding a Gust Fan, and alongside Goblin of Greed who has a Pot of Greed in his hands.)
 * Picture counterparts or “brothers” that resemble each other in terms of physical body features, outfits, weapons, but not necessarily, (and rarely), in color. (Example: Dryad looks like Lady of Faith.)


 * What does not count as card trivia:
 * “This card resembles a turtle”.
 * This card is spelt “so-and-so” in the video game “whatever” no longer attributes as card trivia. Misspelled video game card translations and wry card effects are now going to be distributed into their respective video games pages reserved to game glitches only.
 * The attack name of a monster. (Example: In the anime, Cyber Dragon’s attack is called “Super Strident Blast”.)
 * The different effect that a card has in the anime that’s not in the TCG. (Example: In the anime, Card of Sanctity allowed both players to draw until they have six cards in their hands.) Don’t get me wrong: This is very valuable information and we’re glad you can share it with us. However, any differences in the Anime from the TCG will be listed strictly on the Anime and Manga Appearances page rather than the trivia page.

Vandalizing

 * Vandalizing: Yes, Alexis’ boobs are big. It’s nice to know. We’ve gotten over half a dozen dickwads concerning her sex life with Jaden on her character page and that’s only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to all the reverting of vandalized pages some of us had to undergo from the multitude losers who apparently have nothing better to do than replace entire pages of content with jjswg. Please. Go jerk off to more hentai; we don’t need you here.
 * Anonymous vandalizing — We catch you up to doing no good and we ban you for anywhere from an hour (hopefully you’ll get off that library/school computer by then) to a week.
 * Logged In Vandalizing — If you have an account and are found disturbing the peace on this site, you will be banned. For an infinite amount of expiration time. You can never edit. Here. Ever. Again. So don’t do it, ok?

A new idea

 * I'd like to hear some opinions on getting a YGO Wiki-only IRC channel. (That is, if Fox approves of the idea, first. ;P) What do you think of that? It'll communicating much easier than just simply using talk pages. Maybe some of you can settle the reverting battles much quicker this way. XDD;;

Quesions? Comments? Suggestions? -- Huajun Chen 19:09, 21 August 2007 (UTC)


 * That's a nice idea. Wikia ACG has it's own channel, The Gaiapedia has a channel to (Though that's basically inactive). And I've registered a number of other ones. So if TwoTailedFox doesn't know how to, I can register the channel, and drop myself down to Alternate+Access and give him Contact status. ^_^ I'm also known in #wikia for using my own special  and   commands to quickly deal with flooders and other IRC spammers. That, along with the phpBB forums which have been requested to be installed here once a permissions bug is fixed would make for very nice methods of communication for users in the wiki. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local  (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 18, 2007 @ 11:09 (UTC)


 * Man, you're smart. But for the rest of us who didn't graduate from geek alpha squad academy, please translate all of that into English. -- Huajun Chen 11:44, 18 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Wikia ACG and The Gaiapedia have their own channels I've registered.
 * I can register one for the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki if TwoTailedFox doesn't know how to use ChanServ (What's used for registering a channel). Then drop my status down to second/alternate while giving TwoTailedFox primary control over the channel.
 * I have 2 special commands for my own use called  and   which help stop spam in the IRC like how rollback allows us to kill spam in one click instead of 2 or 3 here in the wiki.
 * An IRC Channel is a nice idea that will fit in with the phpBB Forums that will be installed here when the Wikia Tech Team fixes something wrong with them.
 * Got nothing to do with geeks... You started talking about IRC Channels, and I used IRC Language. Hang around in IRC and you'll pick up those terms allot. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 18, 2007 @ 14:26 (UTC)
 * (Didn't notice the Timestamp till now) Though there is something I should note. The IRC page has some bad things which should be fixed:
 * mIRC isn't the only client, in fact there are plenty of other ones to use. You can also access IRC through the web.
 * Also, it may be a good idea to move the channel to FreeNode.
 * All of the wikia which have IRC channels use FreeNode. Not just for some sort of tradition but for some very good reasons;
 * Wikia's own IRC channel is actually located on FreeNode, not only that but Wikia itself is registered as a group there and FreeNode is the official place for any Wikia project using IRC.
 * Because Wikia's #wikia channel is located on FreeNode, the advanced support for things that users of this wiki can't help with isn't available by simply saying to someone "Just use  for more help." if you're not on the same network.
 * There's also a very large reason using FreeNode is a good idea. Wikia has it's own CGI:IRC client located at http://irc.wikia.com so in other words, as long as the channel is located on FreeNode any user of the wiki can simply go to http://irc.wikia.com and connect to any of the Wikia channels without downloading a program. There's also http://java.freenode.net for a little better web client.
 * ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 18, 2007 @ 14:59 (UTC)


 * 100% support behind a Freenode YGO Wiki IRC. I'm not familiar with how to use ChavServ, since I've never managed an IRC channel.--TwoTailedFox (My Talk Page) 17:28, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, register a nick with NickServ for yourself TwoTailedFox on FreeNode and I'll set everything up for the channel. Which do you want I think I'll put #yu-gi-oh as the channel and redirect #yugioh to it also. Tell me when you have your Nick and I'll transfer the channel to you. I don't know how active you are, but I'll keep myself as alternate so that if your nick expires and someone takes it I'll automatically be set as Contact for the channel instead of having it suddenly disappear. I'm on nearly every day so don't worry about me expiring. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 18, 2007 @ 18:23 (UTC)
 * I setup the channel and put up a new IRC page. I also tweaked the Sidebar. When the phpBB forums are setup we can also set MediaWiki:Forum-url to the location of the forums and it'll show up in the sidebar. Have any of you ever used a Mailing list? Wikia wikis have mailing lists associated with them, if you want we can set that up for use and also link to it from the sidebar. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 18, 2007 @ 19:04 (UTC)


 * We have one set up, but I don't believe it's ever been used. Oh, btw, I already have "TwoTailedFox" on Freenode. ^^--TwoTailedFox (My Talk Page) 19:09, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikia ACG
Summary: The Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki is considering joining Wikia ACG, below is some information on what technical things in the project or policies will change as a result. Links to more information on the project after the list.

I didn't intend to mention Wikia ACG to the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki until the project had grown a good deal, but TwoTailedFox seamed pretty interested in joining the project, so I guess I'll ask the community for some feedback on this and detail what would end up changed: Theres a bit of information on the project at What will happen?, Anime:Extended information, and Wikia ACG Terminology and the project page is at Wikia ACG. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 18, 2007 @ 23:45 (UTC)
 * The Project uses a set of bots to sync various things across all the wiki in the project:
 * There are some pages that these bots would overwrite here:
 * Template:Delete would be overwritten by Anime:Template:Delete.
 * Template:Disambig would be overwritten by Anime:Template:Disambig.
 * And Template:Stub would be overwritten by Anime:Template:Stub.
 * Also, the Anime:Template:Fair use may have a few more options for use than your Template:FairUse but they are different titles so yours won't be overwritten.
 * There are a number of licensing templates for use also. Along with a number of interesting other ones.
 * Also, the images inside of w:c:Naruto:Images/noedit will show up here.
 * I haven't finished enough work on TagSyncBot yet to let me exclude UserBoxes from being synced so all the ones at Anime:Project:Userboxes/listing will show up here. But, when I fix things up extras that don't fit can be excluded.
 * Wikia ACG Has a set of Global JS/CSS that will be referenced:
 * A new Show/Hide will be working.
 * I have a special Box class for CSS which is very nice for doing styles for tables and other boxes and templates.
 * If you want to use them, there is a good bit of preloaded JS that work nice for userscripts that do things like adding tabs, tabmenus, etc... And it's possible to add my BasicTabs and even WikiSwitch systems.
 * Wikia ACG does have some global policies, but I don't think any should really be a problem:
 * Copyrights: This is just the basic copyrights page, it's more of a shared page so that other projects don't half to bother creating one.
 * Fair use policy: The basic Fair use policy, but we normally wave the act of tagging each and every image for those wiki which have been around awhile and have a few hundred images already.
 * Jump start from Wikipedia policy: The policy does talk about starting articles from Wikipedia articles, but that goes on a "Don't reinvent the wheel, unless it needs reinventing" motto and the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki is already more comprehensive than Wikipedia so that doesn't really apply.
 * Some community feedback/input/confirmation would be nice. Even though TwoTailedFox says that he likes the idea we can't really go ahead without feedback from the community. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 21, 2007 @ 16:38 (UTC)
 * Just a small note but, as the 25 will make it a full week that this has been up right on the main Community Portal where everyone looks. And pointed out on both the Main Page and in a Sitenotice. Since the Founder and most active admins agree with the idea they do intend to go ahead with this without feedback if no-one posts any feedback, or even a question by tomorrow. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen -local (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Sep 24, 2007 @ 13:00 (UTC)


 * All you editors out there: Comment! Even to support this idea, we at least want a general idea of the support this idea has amongst you.--TwoTailedFox (My Talk Page) 21:03, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
 * At the moment I see no reason to support or not to support it. It could cause more problems or make things easier. It is a double edged sword. Big Boss 0 21:05, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Well I sort off like the idea and I agree with Dantman that it needs community support to progress further.."Go Ahead..Make my Day" ..-- Cometstyles 21:12, 24 September 2007 (UTC)