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One Hundred Percent NO

Clarinet Hawk

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	:I don't. See the above objections as to why. --[[User:Sky2042\|Sky]] ([[User talk:Sky2042\|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Sky2042\|c]] · [[w:c:wow:User:Sky2042\|w]]) 02:33, 18 July 2008 (UTC)		:I don't. See the above objections as to why. --[[User:Sky2042\|Sky]] ([[User talk:Sky2042\|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Sky2042\|c]] · [[w:c:wow:User:Sky2042\|w]]) 02:33, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

			I'm going to have to oppose the crew namespace. While I do see the potential things it could fix, I also see two large problems: One, we are having enough problems keeping Smash Wiki from becoming a social networking site as it is without adding another way for people to create groups. People tend to be less critical about what is and is not acceptable when it is outside the main namespace, and we really don't need to encourage more groups of people who are just friends that happen to play smash from creating crews. Secondly, someone said it perfectly above: "a game is nothing without its players." I understand that this may seem contradictory to my previous point, but there are crews that contribute legitimately to the Smash community. For example, [[SLAPAHO\|my crew]] has been working to increase the number of tournaments in our area, as well as documenting glitches and techniques. I say this not to toot my own horn (there are many crews that we could not hold a candle to, both in play and in contributions), but simply to emphasize the importance of crews in the growth and continuance of the Smash community. Especially now that Major League Gaming has dropped Smash from its main circuit, and the fact that there are no paid researchers in the Smash world, crews are ''essential'' both to the formation and hosting of tournaments, and to the discovery of techniques that are used in competitive play. Smash Bros. is not, at its fullest, a single player game. It is a multi-player game that each person brings his/her own style to and requires regular gatherings of Smashers to be realized to its fullest. As these groups are vital to the game, this wiki would be quite poorly served in removing them from its main content. [[User:Clarinet Hawk\|Clarinet Hawk]] <small>([[User talk:Clarinet Hawk\|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Clarinet Hawk\|contributions]])</small> 03:10, 18 July 2008 (UTC)