Editing Forum:Further documentation on unplayable characters
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To clarify, I don't know what the current standards are on this, but from what I see on the wiki, if I were to go ham on it, I would probably cause a ruckus of some kind, so I'm writing this up. | To clarify, I don't know what the current standards are on this, but from what I see on the wiki, if I were to go ham on it, I would probably cause a ruckus of some kind, so I'm writing this up. | ||
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* Finally, my friend EyeDonutz made a [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FknMeiZfcZjpCfz0PJcXpv6uaJv4TF5TYI0uvhvuspk/edit?usp=sharing spreadsheet] for Ultimate Giga Bowser as well, which I believe I've used for editing in the past. | * Finally, my friend EyeDonutz made a [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FknMeiZfcZjpCfz0PJcXpv6uaJv4TF5TYI0uvhvuspk/edit?usp=sharing spreadsheet] for Ultimate Giga Bowser as well, which I believe I've used for editing in the past. | ||
* '''EDIT:''' Toomai brought up some stuff on Discord, regarding documenting the Brawl bosses. In terms of moveset pages, it makes sense to document them like [[Ken_(SSBU)/Command_input|command input pages]]; "Move 1" and so on. For numbering them, internal move order sounds correct. Collecting data on SSBU characters may be difficult given the difference in compilation, but Giga Bowser's is at least there. | * '''EDIT:''' Toomai brought up some stuff on Discord, regarding documenting the Brawl bosses. In terms of moveset pages, it makes sense to document them like [[Ken_(SSBU)/Command_input|command input pages]]; "Move 1" and so on. For numbering them, internal move order sounds correct. Collecting data on SSBU characters may be difficult given the difference in compilation, but Giga Bowser's is at least there. | ||
* '''EDIT 2:''' I produced an [[ | * '''EDIT 2:''' I produced an [[User:Plague_von_Karma/Giga_Bowser_(SSBM)|SSBM Giga Bowser]] page to get across what I'm after. | ||
I believe that unplayable characters should have pages akin to that of playable characters, talked from the perspective of playing against them, and playing as them, in separate sections, with the latter being pretty much as detailed as a playable character's. Therefore, I believe that my previous comment about the Giga Bowser and Wario-Man Final Smash pages is wrong, and that they don't go far ''enough''. Even simple overviews seem perfectly fair: We have character pages for characters from Project M and so on, and I would put hacking in playable characters like these ones on exactly the same level as them, personally. With at least the Melee community having discussions along these lines, it seems reasonable to have this information on the wiki to aid in future discussions. Other areas are doing better on documentation than SmashWiki as said before, and we should contribute to the progress in some capacity. From an encyclopaedic perspective, more is always better, and shutting things down with the idea of it being "bloat" is counter to a wiki's interests. | I believe that unplayable characters should have pages akin to that of playable characters, talked from the perspective of playing against them, and playing as them, in separate sections, with the latter being pretty much as detailed as a playable character's. Therefore, I believe that my previous comment about the Giga Bowser and Wario-Man Final Smash pages is wrong, and that they don't go far ''enough''. Even simple overviews seem perfectly fair: We have character pages for characters from Project M and so on, and I would put hacking in playable characters like these ones on exactly the same level as them, personally. With at least the Melee community having discussions along these lines, it seems reasonable to have this information on the wiki to aid in future discussions. Other areas are doing better on documentation than SmashWiki as said before, and we should contribute to the progress in some capacity. From an encyclopaedic perspective, more is always better, and shutting things down with the idea of it being "bloat" is counter to a wiki's interests. | ||
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I don't see any reason to not allow this. We just need to be careful that such pages look more like boss/etc pages than playable character pages, to reduce confusion. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[File:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Obfuscating 07:34, April 19, 2023 (EDT) | I don't see any reason to not allow this. We just need to be careful that such pages look more like boss/etc pages than playable character pages, to reduce confusion. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[File:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Obfuscating 07:34, April 19, 2023 (EDT) | ||