STCO Wiki

[Tom]

Yeah. It was actually copy-pasted from a longer email conversation I was having with Steve MacManus! None of my 'formal' submissions to Speedlines and the Graphic Zone ever made it...

[ShayMay]

Just read it. What's hilarious to me is the letter from Jake Isles that asks if Sonic will ever be on the Nintendo 64, to which he responds:
"Cross over to Nintendo? I don't think so, Jake!"

This was the same year that Sonic Advance was released in Japan.

[Eleonora B.M]

wait.....WHAT?!? I'm on the wikia too?!?! O.o

[Tom]

Poor Steve didn't know all that much about Sonic. But he made a good stab at it all the same!!!

[reallywf]

Yah, I found the wiki a while ago, it's ok.

[Tanner / Ogilvie]

Jan 30, 2012 20:39:43 GMT Eleonora B.M said:

wait.....WHAT?!? I'm on the wikia too?!?! O.o

Well you did make contributions. I'd say that's grounds for inclusion. XD

As I recall, there are many artists who've only made one pin-up yet also have pages. Any contribution to STCO's art or story merits inclusion based on what I can see. :S

[Arch]

Feb 1, 2012 17:17:10 GMT Tanner / Ogilvie said:

Jan 30, 2012 20:39:43 GMT Eleonora B.M said:

wait.....WHAT?!? I'm on the wikia too?!?! O.o

Well you did make contributions. I'd say that's grounds for inclusion. XD

As I recall, there are many artists who've only made one pin-up yet also have pages. Any contribution to STCO's art or story merits inclusion based on what I can see. :S

Except for "stories" in Speedlines and art in the Graphic Zone. I don't personally see a problem with including poster artists as full artists, as they've contributed to the comic's history. It just so happened that the majority of pin-up artists for the print STC were also artists of strips (or went uncredited).

[Eleonora B.M]

that felt a bit heartwarming.......it made me feel like I actually did soemthing good and concrete for once......

[Blizz]

I've tidied up the Dunzi article a little bit, removing some of the unnecessary information and sheer wordiness. Take a look and see what you think. If needs be, I can post the original one here for comparison.

[Supermorff]

Blizz, the original can also be seen on the wiki by going to the page's History.

[Adamis]

Trivia : The Knuckles picture I drew for the Easter issue is in fact a tribute to the late artist Moebius, based on this image :



Also, almost all of Simpson's costumes in the Cream story are a reference to other characters. Some of you already guessed Captain Haddock and Sparrow, but there are more

[Arch]

Was there something skewy about the dates STC was released and what it actually says on the front cover? A lot of information has been changed on the issues' respective pages, with the editor claiming they weren't right. Some instances make sense, but when you see it clearly says one date on the cover and one two weeks in the future on the wiki, something doesn't seem right.

[Tom]

The date on the cover was the date the issue would be taken off the shelf, rather than the release date. Which makes sense when you think about how the newsagent would just stick it on the shelf the day their copies arrived. (If you look at the "next issue" pages in any issue of STC, it will tell you the correct release date of that issue.)

At some point later on it started carrying both dates on the front cover.

However this excludes the earliest issues which confusingly carry just the release date on the cover. (I had to check this years ago because I was concerned the designated anniversary date we had of 29th May might be incorrect - but the "next issue" page has issue 2 coming out on the 12th of June so it's fine).

[Arch]

Hey, guess what..?

We've reached 3,000 pages! On the STC Wiki (just realised this topic is called "STCO Wiki" ...why?)!

There's hardly anything left to put on there. The "wanted pages" page say there's about 50 at most and they're all minor characters, items, features. That means all the stories, major characters, Zones, features can be researched on the STC Wiki! It's only taken a few years and two different wikis but I think it's something we can all be proud of.

There's always more to do; most of the major characters need quite a bit of work at the moment but it's a work in progress. There's probably a lot of links that need cleaning up, adding and removing, but it'll all come. Most importantly, there's a perfectly serviceable wiki online for you to jog your memory or get nostalgic about, I suppose.

[L. T. Dangerous]

Could someone please post a link to the Wanted Pages? Because I just can't find the damn thing.

[Arch]

stc.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=1000

[L. T. Dangerous]

Thanks!

[L. T. Dangerous]

Okay, I have a free afternoon so I'm going to try and remove some of these red links. Only 140, not bad! I'm gonna be reasonably brutal, though, because I don't feel as though we need articles for, say, people mentioned in one speech bubble but never seen- those mentions could easily go on the pages currently linking to nowhere, as per how it'd be done on Wikipedia. For instance, Officer Bodger currently has a red link to Officer Badger. Badger's mention on Bodger's page is clearly enough because there's nothing new that can be posted on a seperate page, hence I'll just remove the link.

You know, crap like that.

EDIT: There are a lot of these pages that just need deleting flat out, though I'm' sure you've spotted that.

[Arch]

Stiv what have you done to the wiki? whyyyyy

[The Stiv™]

Was attempting to wiki-proof the SOS quiz. Will fix shortly.

[peannlui]

Seeing that I got a mention on the Wiki gave me the courage to do an StCO comic again (after coming home from Summer of Sonic). C: Thanks guys.

[L. T. Dangerous]

I've given the front page a bit of a facelift. Current logo's replaced the previous one, for a start. Also, the page was looking a bit drab before, visitors can now see at immediate glance what the current issue is. I have a few more ideas for other bits, if you'll not get too cross at me

EDIT: Put on some templates on the character pages for the Freedom Fighters, the Floating Island inhabitants, Chaotix and Sidewinder's gang

EDIT 2: Added a load of pictures and wikilinks to Sonic's page. Still needs a lot of work doing to it. Some sections need expanding, some need merging and at least one needs actually writing.

[L. T. Dangerous]

Every story now has a picture on its page

EDIT: It's Raining Bananas needs renaming and I have no clue how to do it or if I need special priveleges. It's listed as just Raining Bananas because, apparently, that's how it is in the STC Archive scans and is therefore more common. Never mind picking up the actual issue and checking it, that'd be daft. No, the trivia genuinely said the same story had two titles.

Adding a ton of categories at the moment.

Going to take a serious look at the "Reception" sections on a lot of these pages. They're very self-congratulatory or even downright masturbatory in places and it looks deeply unprofessional on a public wiki. One random fan's opinion is of no more merit than any other's. If there's a way to get a general consensus on a story or even just a group consensus then that belongs in a Reception section. One fan's views do not.

[Arch]

May 14, 2013 13:47:06 GMT L. T. Dangerous said:

Every story now has a picture on its page

EDIT: It's Raining Bananas needs renaming and I have no clue how to do it or if I need special priveleges. It's listed as just Raining Bananas because, apparently, that's how it is in the STC Archive scans and is therefore more common. Never mind picking up the actual issue and checking it, that'd be daft. No, the trivia genuinely said the same story had two titles.

[censored] sake, woe betide anyone that only had a scan to look at because he hasn't owned a copy of STC in about 12 years. You yourself say it was down to a reprinting error so, in effect, there are two titles.

Anyway, I've renamed it. I don't think I have any more privileges than anybody else; there's a drop-down menu next to the main "edit" button on each page, it should include 'history' and 'rename'.

Going to take a serious look at the "Reception" sections on a lot of these pages. They're very self-congratulatory or even downright masturbatory in places and it looks deeply unprofessional on a public wiki. One random fan's opinion is of no more merit than any other's. If there's a way to get a general consensus on a story or even just a group consensus then that belongs in a Reception section. One fan's views do not.

When I started adding reception sections, I wanted to include both positive and negative reactions to stories, particularly STC-O ones - it's not as if I've just gone on about how great they are. I don't get where youre finding it to be "self-congratulatory", since I've never been part of STC-O (and never plan to be), so the entries are just a collection of comments posted here on the Message Zone, the only place I care to look for reception.

I've also (as far as I can remember) never included my own opinions, because that would be a bit of an abuse of my "power".

If you want to talk to me any more about my choices, could you do it on the wiki or somewhere else, because I only really checked here for the first time in a month on a whim?

[L. T. Dangerous]

May 15, 2013 14:40:21 GMT Arch said:

May 14, 2013 13:47:06 GMT L. T. Dangerous said:

Every story now has a picture on its page

EDIT: It's Raining Bananas needs renaming and I have no clue how to do it or if I need special priveleges. It's listed as just Raining Bananas because, apparently, that's how it is in the STC Archive scans and is therefore more common. Never mind picking up the actual issue and checking it, that'd be daft. No, the trivia genuinely said the same story had two titles.

[censored] sake, woe betide anyone that only had a scan to look at because he hasn't owned a copy of STC in about 12 years. You yourself say it was down to a reprinting error so, in effect, there are two titles.

OK, that was a bit more grumpy of me than absolutely necessary, apologies.

May 15, 2013 14:40:21 GMT Arch said:

When I started adding reception sections, I wanted to include both positive and negative reactions to stories, particularly STC-O ones - it's not as if I've just gone on about how great they are. I don't get where youre finding it to be "self-congratulatory", since I've never been part of STC-O (and never plan to be), so the entries are just a collection of comments posted here on the Message Zone, the only place I care to look for reception.

I've also (as far as I can remember) never included my own opinions, because that would be a bit of an abuse of my "power".

No, there's none of your opinions on there, and I do respect that of you. I meant it was generally self-congratulatory to particular members of the Message Zone. The opinions of one or two members aren't any more important than the forum/fandom as a whole. There are loads of times the Reception sections are fine as they represent a generalised view. My issue is with the bits that specifically say Tom or Ed or whoever thought such and such a thing. It doesn't help that those instances all seem to be people who are on or used to be on the team.

Please don't think this is directed specifically and solely at you, Arch, I'm not [censored]ting over you or what you've contributed to this wiki. You've done a hell of a lot of work and there's no taking away from that. I just reckon some of it needs refinement.