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In situations where an official term exists and a highly recognized fan term does not, SmashWiki will uniformly use the official name. On the other hand, situations where a highly recognized fan term has massively and demonstrably eclipsed the official term in usage will sometimes be handled on a case-by-case basis, and the fan term may be chosen instead. A good example of this is the term "[[tech]]", which is near-universally used by ''Smash'' fan communities, being used in place of the far less used official term, "[[wikipedia:Uke (martial arts)|ukemi]]", which was used on the [[Smash Bros. DOJO!! (SSBB)|''Brawl'' official site]]. Situations like this are rare, however, and in general fan terms require a very heavy level of recognition to be used in place of an official term. | In situations where an official term exists and a highly recognized fan term does not, SmashWiki will uniformly use the official name. On the other hand, situations where a highly recognized fan term has massively and demonstrably eclipsed the official term in usage will sometimes be handled on a case-by-case basis, and the fan term may be chosen instead. A good example of this is the term "[[tech]]", which is near-universally used by ''Smash'' fan communities, being used in place of the far less used official term, "[[wikipedia:Uke (martial arts)|ukemi]]", which was used on the [[Smash Bros. DOJO!! (SSBB)|''Brawl'' official site]]. Situations like this are rare, however, and in general fan terms require a very heavy level of recognition to be used in place of an official term. | ||
In the absence of either an official name or a highly recognized fan term, such as most characters' normal moves, it is preferable to leave a name section blank than to "invent" a name for an unnamed move | In the absence of either an official name or a highly recognized fan term, such as most characters' normal moves, it is preferable to leave a name section blank than to "invent" a name for an unnamed move such as [[Mario]]'s [[down smash]]. Non-official sources for such things such as [[Prima Games]] guides or other fansites are unacceptable, and should be removed on sight. | ||
==Dos and don'ts== | ==Dos and don'ts== | ||