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Linux articles
Do we really count Linux as bootlegs? its crusty, sure but bootleg? that's debatable yellows111 (talk) 12:55, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
- Counter-point: Windows 12 Lite exists, so i'm not sure what to say about this topic. Huh. yellows111 (talk) 16:03, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
Screenshot Criteria Discussion
Version 1
- If stock assets are used, do not bother capturing, if filler is needed, then this clause can be changed to "use the template image of File:X_Y_(Stock)"
A gallery must not use the same image as the infobox's screenshot parameterNo longer affected with recent changes.- Never use the same image twice (EXCEPT the infobox image). Doing such will break galleries. Nobody wants that.
- by yellows111 (talk) 13:31, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
Template Standards
- If you use an image for the love of all crust in the sky PLEASE make your file references have a empty link parameter. ([[File:whatever.png|link=]])
- Not doing the above makes the template image able to be clicked on and thus previewed by MediaViewer. This makes for a bad user experience where the first image can be a random icon.
yellows111 (talk) 13:38, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
Program screenshots
If you're using Windows Vista and later, you should consider using a program like AeroShot (or AeroShotCRE) to capture programs in a more professional way by only including the window, along with the major benefit of having real transparency in the image itself.
Screenshot examples:
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With AeroShot
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Without AeroShot
Screenshotting the System Properties in Windows Vista and later with AeroShotCRE may result in broken captures, so it is advised there to use classic AeroShot instead.
On Windows, you can also hold ALT + Print Screen to capture the window. I don't know when this was added but I know it works on XP, 7, and 10. Dartz (talk) 20:46, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
As for the Alt + PrtScr feature, the best way to use this feature is to take advantage of the shared clipboard feature found in the guest additions of hypervisors such as VirtualBox, VMware, etc. First, you enable the Shared Clipboard feature itself, then you configure it to be able to copy from Guest to Host. (or Bidirectional, either one). Then, you paste the clipboard's contents into an image viewer/editor (such as IrfanView, which I use) and save it there. As for labelling the screenshot, again, see "Labeling your screenshots and formatting it in its own gallery". --Undefishin (talk) 11:57, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
How to deal with multiple bootlegs with the same name
If you are trying to write an article on a bootleg and a bootleg with the same name (but not same author) as the one you are trying to review exists, you have to move the original page and rename it accordingly, preferrably by appending the author's name in paranthesis at the end of the article name, and then you can make the article.
Alternatively, how to deal with multiple versions of bootlegs
Simply just make different articles and then put all of the other versions in the othervers variable in the Infobox bootleg template of the main article.
--Undefishin (talk) 09:00, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
How categories should be ordered
Like this:
[[Category:Bootlegs originating from [region name here]]] [[Category:Bootlegs based on [bootleg os name here]]] [[Category:Bootlegs created by [bootleg author name here]]] [[Category:Bootlegs]]
Why in that order? Because it makes sense if you read it like this: "Ok so, it's a bootleg, that was created by [this bootleg author], which is based on [this OS here], and it originates from [this region here]".
--Undefishin (talk) 07:44, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
Attribution Policy
We, (Crusty Windows) have had multiple issues related to attribution for the documentation we provide, which makes the Wiki Staff disappointed, as there could be helpful people that could be referred here which may have some undocumented material that we didn't even know we were looking for.
Thoughts? yellows111 (talk) 15:48, 16 May 2024 (UTC)