Talk:Encyclopedia Mother

The Japanese name for Encyclopedia Mother.

I supplied the Japanese name for Encyclopedia Mother (I believe) using the DeepL website, although I'm unsure if both the translation and stylization are correct. Can a user who has experience in this department help me out? NintenBOUND (talk) 17:45, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Howdy! Sorry, I don't know Japanese one inch, but I can provide some helpful links for writing the rest of this though. Here, archives of both versions and a translation! https://archive.org/details/mother-encyclopedia/mode/2up (Mother Encylopedia - Original 1989 release) https://archive.org/details/encyclopediamotherwonderlifespecial/mode/2up (Mother Encylopedia - 2003 rerelease) https://kenisu3000.blogspot.com/2022/03/encyclopedia-mother-contents.html?m=1 (Translation) Mysthalery (talk) 03:54, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Thank you so much! I'm pondering if I should use the page images from the Internet Archives for both versions to fill out the gallery for this page. I'm not quite sure of the legalities of that, though. (Also, I found out the Mother 1+2 version has a silver slipcase that fits over the bottom half of the red jacket book cover. Here's a link to an image: https://img.aucfree.com/b441941729.1.jpg) NintenBOUND (talk) 13:04, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

I've seen such archived versions be used as sources elsewhere on the wiki, if I'm correct, so it should be fine as long as we are using it for fair use informative reasons. Mother Forever only shows a few pages while talking about the Player's Guide for example, so we can do something like that. Just the relevant pages, I suppose. Mysthalery (talk) 18:11, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Hmmmm....that depends. Which pages are 'important'? Can one infer a limit to an image gallery? I'm asking because I've got more than 20 jpegs worth of images from the Internet Archive Encyclopedia Mother saved on a desktop folder. I can always try to trim it down, but I feel like THAT would make a SUBSTANTIAL gallery for this page. (PS: You know about Mother Forever? You really DO know your Earth from your Bound.) NintenBOUND (talk) 20:59, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

I'd say somewhere below ten is a good amount for now and I would file 'important' as anything with exclusive information like at least one of the character bios, at least one town introduction image, interview page, or whatever has some interesting art. At least one per main section of the book, I suppose, but since there are only four main characters, I think all of their first pages are important, but only Ninten is fine if you want other things in there too. More of a balance thing. (PS: I do! That's why I came here! I like collecting the obscure info.) Mysthalery (talk) 23:05, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Understood. Have a great day. I'll be adding the images soon (hopefully sometime tomorrow). NintenBOUND (talk) 00:21, 14 July 2023 (UTC) (I forgot to add something: If you want to find out more obscure little EarthBound tidbits, there's a really nifty Twitter account named Obscure EarthBound Facts & Media, which posts obscure EarthBound info on the account daily. There's a bunch of cool stuff on there, so I'd definitely recommend that you check it out: https://twitter.com/obscuremother) NintenBOUND (talk) 00:49, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

I think I've seen that Twitter account around but I try not to look at it much as to not accidentally plagiarize from them in my blog of a very similar concept! Thanks though! (Plus, I'm not making a Twitter account to touch that site with a twenty yard pole, so I can't even see it as of recent updates.) Mysthalery (talk) 01:18, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Understood. I tried. I'll still lift info from there onto this wiki, though. :) (PS: I finished the gallery section. Even though I still need to tweak all the pixel sizes, what do you think?) NintenBOUND (talk) 19:12, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

I think a width of two images rather than three may work better because the gallery bleeds over the page boundaries on my screen. A few of the images are also a tad redundant such as two enemy pages and two Podunk pages. Otherwise, looks good! You did a great job fleshing out the entry, so I removed it from stubs as well! (Mysthalery (talk) 23:15, 15 July 2023 (UTC))

Thank you very much! I added the extra Podunk page to give an idea of what the maps are like in the book, but then I'd have to remove the extra enemy page to make it all even...I'll think about it. But I can totally change the image width from three to two so the gallery doesn't bleed over. I work on a Mac computer, so the three-image-gallery setup displays fine on here. NintenBOUND (talk) 00:24, 17 July 2023 (UTC)