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[edit] Logo

Do we really need the HUGE logo? Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:13, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Actually, I lied, I guess I need to discuss here as well. :P Does this look better to you? --
Image:Mortal Kombat (Logo Wide).png
Mortal Kombat series
Arcade Games
Mortal Kombat | Mortal Kombat II | Mortal Kombat 3 | Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 | Mortal Kombat 4
Console Games
Mortal Kombat Trilogy | Mortal Kombat Gold | Mortal Kombat Advance | Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance
Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition | Mortal Kombat: Deception | Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks
Horizontal logo instead of vertical. The upshot of it being wider is that the game listing now takes up one less line. -Locke Cole 19:40, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
I'm going to change it to this for now, it will make it smaller for the time being. -Locke Cole 03:36, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
I removed the category from the above code, no need for it on this page. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 09:36, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
I'm somewhat new here, but does the category code being on this page make a difference? I didn't think it did. -Locke Cole 22:29, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Why the red background though? If anything, it should be black to match how it's usually displayed, right? Too much pure red is just painful to look at anyway. -- Striker 21:26, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
I wasn't sure, but I'll change it to black for now. The logo is transparent, so whatever background color is chosen for the section it's in will filter through appropriately. -Locke Cole 22:29, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New layout

I've stolen the design from the yoga template and copied it here. Let me know if you have any objections to the design. =) --Locke Cole 09:26, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Italics in titles discussion

There is currently a discussion re: italics in titles at Wikipedia_talk:Manual of Style (titles)#Italic_in_templates. Anyone with an interest in this should participate in the discussion there. Thanks! —Locke Cole (talk) (e-mail) 06:42, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Current version

Right now, it's a godawful eyesore. Atrocious. Way too vertical and space-inefficient and too much white space within the box. At the vid game wikiproject page there doesn't seem to be any consensus on infoboxes for anything. I am going to improve on make this thing not cause my eyes to bleed. dfg 10:09, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Here's my edit:

(to avoid confusion, see template main page for current version) [edited by dfg 18:55, 26 February 2006 (UTC)]

it fits better at the bottom of the page, much less white space, and even the colors are more MKish. Anybody feel free to tweak the colors, or category names. dfg 11:28, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Include [hide]/[show] (as the current template does) and you'll get my vote. =) —Locke Cole • t • c 11:41, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm not particularly good with graphic design or anything, but I think we should really try to restrict the header background/font colors to just two. Also, since Wikipedia tends to use blue and white as its primary colors, my first inclination would be to keep the header colors somewhere along those lines (most templates seem to use either blue or light green background headers), as the red and yellow colors are really hard on the eyes relative to the default Wikipedia colors. Otherwise, I really like this slimmed-down organization. Virogtheconq 19:37, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Added the hide/show feature, but I don't understand the code, so if someone can clean it up, please do so. Also, anyone who wants a less jarring color scheme can alter it, but I kinda like it. I'm also going to replace the template since there hasn't been any objection for 4 or 5 days. dfg 19:23, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Can someone add the Character Rankings? I would myself, but I'm not sure what to call it in the link. Kid Drac 22:09, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

I could, but I agree with the comment on that article's [page], that it looks like original research and should be a wikibook instead. In a related issue, I don't know if templates like this are supposed to refer to other wikis or not. Anyone? dfg 22:24, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
I'd hate to sound rude, but note the date. That comment was made before the total revamp. Before revamp. Kid Drac 23:55, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Honestly, I don't see much of a difference. To me the whole article seems to be a completely subjective list of which characters are better. But, whatever, this is fan stuff. I'll put it in the other articles section. dfg 03:57, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Regarding character names in the list - right now they're all listed as [[''name''|''name'']], which seems to be double the necessary code for most of them - is there a specific reason for having them like this, or is it just a carryover from the previous templates that's not necessary? Virogtheconq 00:52, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Ideally the display names would have non-breaking spaces for full names ("Liu Kang" for example would have an   between "Liu" and "Kang") to keep them from splitting across multiple lines. In the past I made an effort to keep certain templates formatted like that, but invariably people will come along and remove them (or add new entries and not maintain the formatting) and I just gave up. :P I don't think this template currently exploits this and the doubling up is probably unnecessary (unless the article name isn't an exact match to the character name, of course; like for [[Liu Kang (Mortal Kombat character)|Liu Kang]] (that's a fake example just to give everyone an idea what I mean)). —Locke Cole • t • c 01:03, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, when the new template is less a new version than a reformatting. I just changed how it appeared and didn't touch (almost) any of the content from the previous version. I just went in and got rid of the double code. I forgot to implement what Locke Cole was talking about with the non-breaking spaces. Maybe another time or someone else? I also removed the original revision from this page to eliminate confusion. dfg 18:55, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Coding help

I just copied and pasted the code for the template from a pre-existing one. I'm no good at it. I noticed that for some reason there is no space in between the last line of text in entries and the start of the template. It looks bad. Help? dfg 18:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

I looks like there just needs to be an extra space added to the entry, but I can't tell if that's a sloppy, stop-gap solution or not. dfg 18:29, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Previous version, "archived"

Here it is:

Mortal Kombat Universe
MK Games
Main MK Games
MK – MK2 – MK3 – MK4 – MK:DA – MK:D - MK:A
MK Remakes and Ports
UMK3 - MKT - MKG - MK:Advance - MK:TE
MK Adventure Games
MKM:SZ - MK:SF - MK:SM
Main Characters
Ashrah – Baraka – Blaze – Bo' Rai Cho – Chameleon – Cyrax – Dairou – Darrius – Drahmin – Ermac – Frost – Fujin – Goro – Havik – Hotaru – Hsu Hao – Jade – Jarek – Jax – Johnny Cage – Kabal – Kai – Kano – Kenshi – Khameleon – Kintaro – Kira – Kitana – Kobra – Kung Lao – Li Mei – Liu Kang – Mavado – Mileena – Mokap – Moloch – Motaro – Nightwolf – Nitara – Noob Saibot – Onaga – Quan Chi – Rain – Rayden – Reiko – Reptile – Sareena – Scorpion – Sektor – Shang Tsung – Shao Kahn – Sheeva – Shinnok – Shujinko – Sindel – Smoke – Sonya – Stryker – Sub-Zero – Tanya – The One Being
Minor Characters
Factions in MK
Realms of MK
Species in MK
MK Films
MK Media
MK Glossary

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Mortal Kombat characters

Template:Mortal Kombat characters has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 February 21#Template:Mortal Kombat characters. Thank you.

Template was deleted, thanks to everyone who "voted". dfg 18:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Minor change

I changed the Minor Characters link to the List of Mortal Kombat characters, since the Minor Mortal Kombat characters page is linked in the list, and the list otherwise was nowhere on the template.Virogtheconq 00:07, 11 April 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Epic Battles

Should a link under "Other" be added for this collectible card game since Mortal Kombat is featured heavily? I think so, but I thought I better ask here before just changing it. Seth0708 22:31, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't think so. I'm also not sure of what sort of licensing deal was struck with Midway to allow for the inclusion of the MK characters, but it's likely not an "official" MK product - rather, just a game that happens to include several MK characters. VirogIt's notmy fault! 01:45, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
The other Mortal Kombat card game is included in the template. I'm not sure how that is more "official" than the newer card game as both needed liscensing from Midway. Regardless though, I would be inclined to think that so long as it was commerically released and liscensed thta it would be an official product. For instance, many of the comics are not "official" in the sense that they are canon, but they're still liscensed products. Seth0708 02:55, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Yes, but those titles were released under the Mortal Kombat name. Epic Battles is not. VirogIt's notmy fault! 08:33, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Fair enough. Seth0708 19:13, 12 January 2007 (UTC)