Thread:Ralph Laureno/@comment-24239995-20180114170627/@comment-24239995-20180117012817

I'll start off with Gin's page since it's the most minor thing you mentioned: I've not yet completed the series, I'm currently on episode 304 and have only just recently finished the fifth movie of the franchise. As a result I actually haven't been on any black organisation / FBI pages since arriving here as I wouldn't want massive spoilers. And so I wasn't aware that Gin's page was locked to admins only. By the posting of this message, it will already be unlocked. (I have a page at Myanimelist or MAL which I update very responsively: https://myanimelist.net/profile/Twileska)

As for the images, I did have a plan to eventually go through them all and either use them, obtain better quality versions of the same frames, or just delete. I haven't done so yet because it seems like a hassle and I figured creating some pages for people to add content into would take presedence, but I can certainly do a bit of both. So far, it's only been my laziness preventing me from doing it.

The detective conan wikia, when I very first came here had a if I remember correctly about 170 pages or 270 pages, something like that. I think it was 270 ish. Most of which were empty, having an image with 3-5 lines beneath consisting of either a single word or a long error message. Many pages were blank, and some were just sad like the episode list having only like 60 episodes and in such an outlandish order. Before I dug myself into that chaos, I chose to make the website a little more colorful and attractive so people would be more motivated to enter the website, hence the colors and also my first and now recently second attempt at infoboxes. I figured revamping the entire website would attract a new crowd and make it active, perhaps even the primary or secondary source of DC information other than possibly the detective conan wiki, when I started fiddling with the colors, originally, I made the header/infoboxes a dark hazzy purple, and links were forest green, and the text was a different color that I can't remember. I think it was a dark yellow or something, but then a random contributor I've never seen beforehand had an issue with it. He claimed to have been here years before me, back when the site was had color and content, and basically wanted me to make it the way it used to be. My goal is to move forward with a full scale 100% revamp, not to regress but I decided to make him happy by brightning up the colors, similar to that of the bleach wikia, primarily using a medium brightness blue header/infoboxes and light blue links with regular white text. I thought the dark colors would suit the series since it is about cases and has some pretty dark situations but whatever, that was only my one personal preference. The site was grey and white when I first came here lol, text / headers / infoboxes / backgrounds / everything / etc. I can change all that again, but there were 2 things I didn't really know how to do. The background image is grey, I don't know if there is a way to color it or if there is a colored version of it online, but I wanted to change it's color beforehand too. By graphic I assume you mean where it says "Detective Conan Wikia" in the blue header, well it's the same story. I know how to add the image there but the size / shape and making one at all is all over my head. If you had a link to what you'd like to see there, I could try it.

As for people I could ask, that might be a trick. I know if it involved some kind of wikicode or other complicated things, like if we needed a certain kind of advanced infobox I could probably get someone to help me out, I've already done that before, but content wise, they would have had to at least have read or watched the series somewhat at the least, and I don't know anyone who's a dedicated or at least serious editor who has knowledge of this series. That I could try to find, but so far I've just been waiting for people to see it slowly being assembled and see some life here, hoping to provoke people like yourself. I assumed that after a few people are active, more will see this and maybe do some edits. If there were enough people then things like discussions might even start occuring, and people might generally arrive. Though, that's probably pretty optimistic.

Well, I probably won't start immediately, but I'll definitely put a lot of effort in the upcoming few weeks. I want to put some content on the episode pages, even if it's only a few paragraphs, so that's probably the largest and next major project I'll work in the coming weeks, though I'll be stretching my reach to most pages the site offers too and not exclusively to episodes. Your third and final point, you'll have to get back to me in detail and maybe have a demonstration such as links so I get it, I'm not as wikia savy as you might think lol. And finally, what do you think about the current episode infoboxes? It's much better space wise and cleaner looking than my previous attempt but I'd like to know from someone else if it needs changes. You can see the original infoboxes from before my arrival are still on episode pages 833-850, and my first attempt to clean them up are still on episode pages 851-874. The newest version is on all other episode pages currently.

I'm online here at least 4-6 times or more a week even if I'm not active, so if you ever have any other questions or concerns, just leave a message. I was only out the past few weeks because I moved to a new location, but I've settled in about a week and a half ago.