SmashWiki talk:Manual of Style/Archive 1

Do we have a specific preference between US-style standards of spelling (i.e. color, maneuver) and UK-style standards (i.e. colour, maneouvre)? Miles (talk) 19:01, 21 October 2010 (EDT)

I think we just do whatever, and you're not supposed to make an edit that only includes changing those things. Toomai Glittershine 19:05, 21 October 2010 (EDT)

I still strongly prefer ending all captions with periods. It looks frustratingly incomplete to me otherwise. Miles (talk) 14:02, 23 December 2010 (EST)

Additionally, can we standardize that the shortened forms of the games' names are:

• In article titles: SSB, SSBM, SSBB
• In article text: SSB, Melee, Brawl

This seems to the best way to do it, imo. Miles (talk) 16:23, 30 December 2010 (EST)

bump Miles (talk) 20:16, 16 January 2011 (EST)

Is there any particular reason you feel the distinction is important? Toomai Glittershine The Incomprehensible 21:09, 16 January 2011 (EST)

It looks better to me that way...? Also so there's a standard. Miles (talk) 21:21, 16 January 2011 (EST)

Links

Why is it that links such as [[grab|grabbing]] are considered "less efficient" than [[grab]]bing? Edits to change this are completely pointless and unnecessary. Omega Tyrant 10:45, 25 May 2011 (EDT)

...I did a edit like that. So are you saying I'm doing pointless stuff?--Wolf rulez! The best! 10:59, 25 May 2011 (EDT)

Basically a lot of users will view it as pointless due to both of the links will link to the same page and will both look the same when not editing, the only postive it has is to save a couple of bits. At the moment though it is not considered pointless due to that being the correct way to link in the Manual of Style.--Shaun's Wiji Dodo talk 11:09, 25 May 2011 (EDT)

That does not answer my question on why one form of linking is considered "more efficient" than the other, as both ways of linking appear exactly the same on the page people view. Just because it is currently in the manual of style does not mean it is automatically correct. And yes Wolf Rulez, I'm saying all edits that only change one form of linking to the other is unnecessary and adds nothing to the page, therefore such edits are pointless. Omega Tyrant 11:32, 25 May 2011 (EDT)

I was actually answering Wolf Rulez's question, hence why it doesn't answer yours and why it is spaced under Wolf's comment.--Shaun's Wiji Dodo talk 11:37, 25 May 2011 (EDT)

Suffix links make things easier to read and harder to spell wrong for the editor, have no effect on the reader, and are (most likely) no more expensive to process than piped links; Wikipedia sums it up with "This is easier to type and clearer to read in the source text." While I can agree that you probably shouldn't devote a single edit to changing piped links to suffix links, they appear have no downsides whatsoever. Toomai Glittershine The Chilled 12:15, 25 May 2011 (EDT)

Article naming for articles with multiple possible names

There's nothing in the manual that explains why the tech page isn't named "ukemi", or why tilt attack isn't named "strong attack". I interpret it as the pages are supposed to have the name that's the most common. Is that correct? – Smiddle_T 10:43, 7 July 2011 (EDT)

We do have SmashWiki is not offical, which covers that. I'll put it in here for completeness. Toomai Glittershine Le Grand Fromage 15:03, 7 July 2011 (EDT)

Oh, forgot about that. Thanks. – Smiddle_T 16:13, 7 July 2011 (EDT)

Addendum to the American vs. British (and all sundry) English guidelines.

I would propose that while we have no preference for the whole wiki, individual articles should maintain constancy. Thus, if an article contains both the words "colour" and "saber," one should be changed to match regional spelling of the other. To be frank, I can't think of a publication where both are used even in different articles, but I know that no copy editor would let the two coexist in the same article. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 20:11, 23 June 2012 (EDT)