Template talk:Significant events: Difference between revisions

:That being said I never thought of the recency bias + potential for vandalism before. Perhaps this would be better as just a category to make it less visible. '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 23:10, December 7, 2020 (EST)

:I seriously don't see how documenting occurrences within the community would give the wiki negative publicity. If anything the wiki is already suffering from a stagnant negative reception as it lacks any form of contact with the community. I also don't think it's very difficult at all to determine which particular events would be notable or not regardless of recency. For example, COVID-19 knocked out an entire year of in-person Smash tournaments and significantly boosted the popularity of netplay. The sexual misconduct allegations resulted in the departure of many notable individuals throughout the community and a heightened sense of security. In our most recent case, years upon years of information was unearthed describing how Nintendo and other corporations prevented the growth of the community and many times significantly harmed it. Now I'm indifferent on whether this should stay as a template or a category, but I firmly support keeping it up in some form. [[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>]]'' 00:24, December 8, 2020 (EST)

Some general comments from me (addressing the whole page, rather than anyone specific):

*While I don't think that the mainspace is the absolute best place for information like this to go...I'm not sure of where else it ''could'' go. There's no dedicated namespace for stuff like this, and to create one would seem superfluous.