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== Amendment of censorship rule ==
== Amendment of censorship rule ==
{{Proposal|passed}}
 
There's been a flurry of activity on the Discord server that suggests an appetite for making the following change:
There's been a flurry of activity on the Discord server that suggests an appetite for making the following change:
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::::::"''I still don't understand the reason behind removing offensive content, even as simple as removing one word from a sentence, other than as an attempt to preserve the wiki's reputation.''"
::::::"''I still don't understand the reason behind removing offensive content, even as simple as removing one word from a sentence, other than as an attempt to preserve the wiki's reputation.''"
:::::If you think this is about "preserving the wiki's reputation" and not us making an attempt to keep with the times that the rest of the community is with, you should honestly go and do some self-reflecting and maybe work on keeping with the times yourself. [[User:Aidanzapunk|<span style="color: blue;">'''Aidan'''</span>]], [[User talk:Aidanzapunk|<span style="color: blue;">'''the Rurouni'''</span>]] 18:47, March 10, 2021 (EST)
:::::If you think this is about "preserving the wiki's reputation" and not us making an attempt to keep with the times that the rest of the community is with, you should honestly go and do some self-reflecting and maybe work on keeping with the times yourself. [[User:Aidanzapunk|<span style="color: blue;">'''Aidan'''</span>]], [[User talk:Aidanzapunk|<span style="color: blue;">'''the Rurouni'''</span>]] 18:47, March 10, 2021 (EST)
::::::"''What's the point of having talk pages if people like you are going to be insistent on shutting down any nuanced conversation?''"
:::::Yep, keep ripping 'em out, mate. I'll tell you that there's no 'nuance' in attempting to repeatedly go over the same tired arguments when every single one of them has already been rebutted, and when literally everyone else is opposing you. Come up with something new, and/or someone who agrees with you (preferably both), and maybe then we'll take you more seriously. [[User:Black Vulpine|<span style="color: black;">'''Black Vulpine'''</span>]] of the [[User talk:Black Vulpine|🦊'''Furry Nation'''🐺]]. [[Special:Contributions/Black Vulpine|<span style="color: #CC5500">'''Furries make the internets go! :3'''</span>]] 19:38, March 10, 2021 (EST)
:::I fail to believe that any good faith user is in support of keeping such terms up. It is incredibly insensitive to keep it and even the 64 community recognizes this. "Rape" should only be used in contexts where no alternatives would be correct or accurate to use, such as in controversy sections. "Sex kick" on the other hand is completely harmless. [[User:SenorMexicano|<span style="color:#850FFA; text-shadow: 0px 0px 3px green">'''Señor'''</span> <span style="color:#850FFA;text-shadow:0px 0px 3px green">'''Mexicano'''</span>]] ''[[User talk:SenorMexicano|<span style="color:lightpurple;text-shadow:0px 0px 2px lightgreen">(talk)</span>]]'' 10:21, March 10, 2021 (EST)
:::I fail to believe that any good faith user is in support of keeping such terms up. It is incredibly insensitive to keep it and even the 64 community recognizes this. "Rape" should only be used in contexts where no alternatives would be correct or accurate to use, such as in controversy sections. "Sex kick" on the other hand is completely harmless. [[User:SenorMexicano|<span style="color:#850FFA; text-shadow: 0px 0px 3px green">'''Señor'''</span> <span style="color:#850FFA;text-shadow:0px 0px 3px green">'''Mexicano'''</span>]] ''[[User talk:SenorMexicano|<span style="color:lightpurple;text-shadow:0px 0px 2px lightgreen">(talk)</span>]]'' 10:21, March 10, 2021 (EST)
::::I really don't think accusations of bad faith are going to help here. Remember [[SW:AGF]]. ''[[User:Alex the weeb|<span style="color: blue;">'''Alex'''</span>]] the [[User talk:Alex the weeb|<span style="color: red;">'''Weeb'''</span>]]'' 10:27, March 10, 2021 (EST)
::::I really don't think accusations of bad faith are going to help here. Remember [[SW:AGF]]. ''[[User:Alex the weeb|<span style="color: blue;">'''Alex'''</span>]] the [[User talk:Alex the weeb|<span style="color: red;">'''Weeb'''</span>]]'' 10:27, March 10, 2021 (EST)
:::Yes, the denomination was commonplace in the past, but nowadays people stray from it, and for good reason. Removing explicit mentions of the name "rapetent" seems more tantamount to us removing "category: female smashers" for being a useless and frankly offensive way of separating players. This isn't an issue of notability, nor is it removing information, but an unnecessary effort to preserve the community's mistakes and let those mistakes constantly stare at them in the face. What ''would'' be questionable to police for instance is removing all mentions of ZeRo being the best SSB4 player for most of the game's life just because of what he did, or pretending the crew "DBR" wasn't once called "Death By Rape". And even in the hypothetical extreme that the playertag of the GOAT is something like "I hate N-word's", I doubt a player with that name is going to get very far without at least one person objecting to it or a reasonable minded TO refusing to register them.<br>Now that being said, in regards to "rapetent" specifically, OT mentioned that preserving the redirect should be harmless, as those who would put it into the search bar probably wouldn't be offended by it (although we might have to add a notice to the page in case anyone sees that it redirects and tries to add it back). I'm still not fully sure I support this proposal to the letter, but there is a point at which it becomes less about notability and more about random factoids that just editorialize and offend readers. - [[User:EndGenuity|EndGenuity]] ([[User talk:EndGenuity|talk]]) 11:26, March 10, 2021 (EST)
:::Yes, the denomination was commonplace in the past, but nowadays people stray from it, and for good reason. Removing explicit mentions of the name "rapetent" seems more tantamount to us removing "category: female smashers" for being a useless and frankly offensive way of separating players. This isn't an issue of notability, nor is it removing information, but an unnecessary effort to preserve the community's mistakes and let those mistakes constantly stare at them in the face. What ''would'' be questionable to police for instance is removing all mentions of ZeRo being the best SSB4 player for most of the game's life just because of what he did, or pretending the crew "DBR" wasn't once called "Death By Rape". And even in the hypothetical extreme that the playertag of the GOAT is something like "I hate N-word's", I doubt a player with that name is going to get very far without at least one person objecting to it or a reasonable minded TO refusing to register them.<br>Now that being said, in regards to "rapetent" specifically, OT mentioned that preserving the redirect should be harmless, as those who would put it into the search bar probably wouldn't be offended by it (although we might have to add a notice to the page in case anyone sees that it redirects and tries to add it back). I'm still not fully sure I support this proposal to the letter, but there is a point at which it becomes less about notability and more about random factoids that just editorialize and offend readers. - [[User:EndGenuity|EndGenuity]] ([[User talk:EndGenuity|talk]]) 11:26, March 10, 2021 (EST)
:::"''I think this policy would go dangerously into letting users' personal opinions on subjects affect the way that content is displayed, which isn't right for a website trying to be as encyclopedic as possible.''"
:::I understand the concern here, I empathize with this sentiment and I don't like that people have been assuming bad faith on your part for being contrarian here (especially from the other admins). Generally however, slippery slope arguments are fallacious; the administration should be trusted to distinguish between extreme cases that this rewrite is for and when someone lodging a trivial complaint is just being overly sensitive, and not acknowledging "rapetent" in mainspace text does not set a precedent for things like wiping from the the wiki any mention of "sex kick" or whitewashing what DBR used to stand for. We also have to deal with the reality that we are ultimately a wiki for an E10 video game series; while trying to police swearing in talk page discussions is dumb when young kids shouldn't ever be editing in the first place, and community-based articles will naturally cover more heavy-handed subjects when an older audience is involved, there's really no reason to have blatantly derogatory terms be in mainspace articles covering basic game stuff, like using "rapetent" to refer to a stage feature in a stage article. Plus, while I never liked the general argument of "this makes me uncomfortable so we shouldn't have this", I think there's certainly a point to not forcing editors to have to write down tags like the one used by the Zero Suit Samus player that placed 17th at {{Trn|Limit Break}}, especially so when crazies could try using that as a reason to slander the editor outside the wiki. Even though I am very anti-censorship, I certainly wouldn't want edits of mine writing that player's tag down instead of a cleaner alternative that couldn't possibly be held against me in the future. <span style="font-family:Edwardian Script ITC; font-size:12pt">[[User:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Omega</span>]] [[User talk:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Tyrant</span>]]</span> [[Image: TyranitarMS.png ]] 01:30, March 11, 2021 (EST)


'''Support''' per reasons provided by everyone else. [[User:Superbound|Superbound]] ([[User talk:Superbound|talk]]) 07:00, March 10, 2021 (EST)
'''Support''' per reasons provided by everyone else. [[User:Superbound|Superbound]] ([[User talk:Superbound|talk]]) 07:00, March 10, 2021 (EST)
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:As a general question, do you believe that SmashWiki was correct or incorrect to use the word "rapetent" in the article for the past eight years when it was more popular? '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 17:35, March 10, 2021 (EST)
:As a general question, do you believe that SmashWiki was correct or incorrect to use the word "rapetent" in the article for the past eight years when it was more popular? '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 17:35, March 10, 2021 (EST)
::It was a different time then, both for the community and the internet in general, so my opinion one way or the other is irrelevant. <span style="font-family:Algerian;font-size:10pt;background:#000;border:outset #083 2px;padding:1px 3px">'''[[User:Serpent King|<span style="color:#083">Serpent</span>]]&nbsp;[[File:SKSig.png|12px|link=]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Serpent King|<span style="color:#ed0">King</span>]]'''</span> 17:56, March 10, 2021 (EST)
::It was a different time then, both for the community and the internet in general, so my opinion one way or the other is irrelevant. <span style="font-family:Algerian;font-size:10pt;background:#000;border:outset #083 2px;padding:1px 3px">'''[[User:Serpent King|<span style="color:#083">Serpent</span>]]&nbsp;[[File:SKSig.png|12px|link=]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Serpent King|<span style="color:#ed0">King</span>]]'''</span> 17:56, March 10, 2021 (EST)
'''Reluctant Support''' I've been neutral about this proposal for awhile, but I agree with a lot of what Omega Tyrant said above (@ 01:30, March 11). I am anti-censorship myself too and acknowledge words in of themselves don't have intrinsic meaning; however, I also recognize the slippery slope argument is indeed fallacious and hope that this policy doesn't snowball in the future to other forms of scricter censorship. While I agree in principle with what ac2k is saying about censorship, I guess I don't agree in practice (along with what OT said again).
However, I would also like to add though that I don't think who gets to decide what's "too offensive" should be determined by admins alone, but should be based on a community consensus on a case-by-case basis; if we as a community decide we don't want to include certain language, then I don't see a problem with us not documenting it (as opposed to the musings of a single admin or even multiple admins alone without the rest of the community giving their thoughts). '''[[User:Voqéo|<span style="background:#000; color:white; padding:2px 6px;font-size:12px;">Voqéo</span>]][[User talk:Voqéo|<span style="background:#e70012; color:white; padding:2px 4px;font-size:12px;">T</span>]]''' 08:25, March 11, 2021 (EST)
'''Support''' per above. [[User:Awesomelink234|<span style="font-size:10pt;background:#00FF20;border:outset #083 2px;padding:1px 3px;color:#050DF7">Awesomelink234, the Super Cool Gamer</span>]] ([[User talk:Awesomelink234|talk]]) 10:27, March 11, 2021 (EST)
'''Slight support''': As per my responses to Ac2k, this is where I lean as it's the more practical stance, but this is under the assumption that this is as far as the policy revision will go, as I will probably oppose any stricter revisionism to the policy. <span style="font-family:Edwardian Script ITC; font-size:12pt">[[User:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Omega</span>]] [[User talk:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Tyrant</span>]]</span> [[Image: TyranitarMS.png ]] 01:00, March 12, 2021 (EST)
Alright, I'm going to put up '''mild support''' per what Voqéo and Omega Tyrant have said. I abhor censorship and would rather not have to deal with word policing, but given that, aside from cardinal, everyone here with reservations acknowledges that sometimes the line has to be drawn (including myself), it's clear the case for moving away from overly offensive vocabulary and denominations is there. But this is a ruling we have to use ''very'' sparingly so it doesn't snowball into removing actually vital information on the Wiki. There's no need for a hard ruling: the acknowledgement is more than enough. - [[User:EndGenuity|EndGenuity]] ([[User talk:EndGenuity|talk]]) 12:50, March 12, 2021 (EST)
Okay, I am going to change my opinion to '''slight support''', assuming that the terms stated on this page are as far as things will go. I still don't fully trust the administration to properly decide what counts as too offensive or not, especially since two admins used their "executive authority" to enforce censorship, when, as demonstrated by this talk page, the issue was not a clear open and shut case at all, in addition to how the entire administration except for OT banded together to oppose me when I spoke out about it. I agree with the above posts that administrators alone should not be able to determine what counts as acceptable language. The consensus seems to be that the rapetent case is small enough for us to ignore, and I won't fight against that. However, there is a non-zero chance that an offensive enough term will surface and become too big to ignore, and we need to be careful about applying this policy in those circumstances. '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 22:12, March 12, 2021 (EST)
:"''in addition to how the entire administration except for OT banded together to oppose me when I spoke out about it.''"
:It seems you are misinterpreting the opposition towards you—it was more directed towards your refusal to condemn usage of the term "rapetent", rather than any mindset you had on censorship. Quite frankly, I don't think any admin is necessarily "pro-censorship", and I don't think any admin actually commented on you being anti-censorship (besides OT, who was not in opposition). Let the record show that I too am anti-censorship, while still understanding that there are things that flat out shouldn't be said.
:"''I agree with the above posts that administrators alone should not be able to determine what counts as acceptable language.''"
:From the start, this was never the idea, so I'm not sure where you got that? SmashWiki has never been "the admins alone make these decisions", even though [[SW:ADMIN#...but administrators are still administrators|we, albeit rarely, still might have such cases]], but this isn't ''[[wikipedia:Ninteen Eighty-Four|1984]]''.
:[[User:Aidanzapunk|<span style="color: blue;">'''Aidan'''</span>]], [[User talk:Aidanzapunk|<span style="color: blue;">'''the Rurouni'''</span>]] 14:56, March 13, 2021 (EST)
== Parody games ==
Are games like Nick All Stars Brawl and WB’s Multiversus allowed to have their own official pages or are they not official enough? [[Special:Contributions/174.55.24.64|174.55.24.64]] 23:19, May 25, 2022 (EDT)
:No. They aren't official at all because they aren't made by Nintendo, they are made by other companies. We cover ''Smash'' and that's it. --[[User:CanvasK|CanvasK]] ([[User talk:CanvasK|talk]]) 23:24, May 25, 2022 (EDT)

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