Template talk:Significant events: Difference between revisions

: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)

::What did you mean by the wiki "lacking any form of contact with the community"? People still use the wiki. Once in a blue moon, a pro player will even edit it. I don't understand. [[User:Anthony1996|Anthony1996]] ([[User talk:Anthony1996|talk]]) 01:39, 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.

:I also agree that there's a chance it could turn into a List of rumors type of thing, but I don't think the list of rumors page is that big of a deal. It seems that nearly all the Ultimate rumors have been reliably cited or linked to the original source. And even so, it's not like the page itself is unreadable or anything, it's well organized into different subsections and everything. I believe that the benefits of having the information displayed here outweigh the drawbacks. I would rather as a wiki decide what counts as "notable" instead of deleting these kinds of lists altogether (on an informative encyclopedia it's impossible to completely avoid all forms of subjectivity anyways). In addition, deliberately removing events like the sexual misconduct allegations from a significant events would feel like censorship in my opinion. '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 01:21, December 8, 2020 (EST)

:In addition canceled tournaments like TBH Online should still have their own pages, the wiki goes by a "once notable always notable" policy, just because the event is not happening anymore doesn't mean the preparations and hype leading up to the event go away as well. '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 01:24, December 8, 2020 (EST)