Editing Forum:Project M mentions

{{proposal|failed}}

#:::The simplest and most common example you'd find (partly because it happened to me in the past) is someone who is playing project M hears about a tech they're unfamiliar with. The immediate intuitive thing for them to do is to put the unfamiliar term in the search bar and click on its page. It isn't intuitive to figure out they need to visit the project M page and read through the giant list of changes looking for if the thing they heard about is even there. You can't really expect users to understand the wikis rules for where it's allowed to be mentioned automatically or seek it out in the wikis discussion pages. Wavedash might be too simple of an example that most people know, but Melee players are often unfamiliar with brawl tech like RAR, B-Reverse+Wavebounce, glide tossing etc. and Brawl/S4 players are unfamiliar with Boost Grabs, Ledge Dashing, various Ledgestalls, etc. Some techs are subtly different from their counterparts in the original games, in either implementation, application, or interaction with other techs. These differences would hardly require their own section, but it also means that not every PM mention on a tech page would only be a "It is also in project M." sentence. An example would look something like [https://www.ssbwiki.com/index.php?title=Air_dodge&type=revision&diff=944732&oldid=923597 this] for a tech where only interaction changes because it was re-implemented exactly. Complementary/additional informantion (like "Aerial glide tossing's height gain gives diminishing returns on successive use without touching the stage.") would be an example on the glide toss page. Non-tech examples of pages/mentions include the competitive ones I asked about in the comments section below, [[Stage legality]] and [[Tournament legal]], which would help a new or unfamiliar Tournament Organizer who is looking into running PM. It would be far easier than trying to find a list of tournaments and compare/contrast their various rulesets (if they are described at all) to piece together what a standard one might look like. Serpent King mentioned that pages on purely the competitive scene are allowed to be presented equally (like tournaments and smashers) but this has been enforced haphazardly. As mentioned, a separate page or a subpage for stages would help clean up the Project M main page. It is already one of the longest, not very easy to parse, and lacking useful information that would make both of those issues worse if just added in the same way. I'm already in the process of cleaning up and better describing the special modes added. I also think a separate page to reoganize how changelogs are presented would also be beneficial. It would be easier to just create a mock-up and show it than to describe it here though. In general I think it would be beneficial if these non-competitive pages were subpages of the main project M page, in same way moveset pages are subpages of the characters. That way the main article is less cluttered but can still link to the info, the useful information is well presented and has a well preserved place, the information is easily searchable because it's a top result after typing something like Project M stages, and yet its clearly distinct as not being equal to the main games by its status as a subpage of the mod. I realize that this proposal is more about mentions alongside the main games than the mod's pages, but all the better if both are addressed. Sorry if this response was too long for how these policy discussions are supposed to be.