SmashWiki:Pool Room

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Few things. First off, you still put Characters in the Characters section and Items in Items section too as long with the subcategories... Second off, how do you get a page that you moved off the Category screen? (Such as, I moved Party Balls to Party Ball but it still says Party Balls on the Items category screen and it redirects me to Party Ball.) -- Blaiken 13:34, July 26, 2006 (GMT)

Another thing; why are pages all of a sudden getting deleted? -- Blaiken 22:53, July 26, 2006 (GMT)

I don't know which pages you're talking about. Here's the deletion log. It explains why most pages are deleted, but there haven't been too many yet. If you need me to clarify any of them go ahead and ask and I'll do my best. --Kirby King 23:05, July 26, 2006 (GMT)

No, it was a category that somehow got deleted, pehaps in the site transition. -- Blaiken 19:28, July 29, 2006 (GMT)

I changed a few pages that had "ADA" to dair or d-air. Dair is what it says on this wiki's moves page so calling it ADA might confuse people.-ender

Ender - it might be benificial to have both available. Some people like to use SHABAFFL for SHFFL B-air, so I think we should make B-air standard lingo, but having definitions for ABA, ANA, AFA, and AUA that either redirect or have something that says "another way to say B-air. Short for (A)erial (B)ackward (A)ir."--Technomancer 08:29, August 6, 2006 (GMT)

Techs → Techniques

I changed all links to the 'Techs' category and 'Techs (SSBM)' to 'Techniques' and 'Techniques (SSBM)' respectivly. I did it so it is not confused with (a) tech/teching/wallteching/techrolling, and so it looks more professional. I also noticed that sometimes people link to 'Techs' instead of 'Techs (SSBM)'. Please link to the correct category and/or sub-category, and please use the updated names (Techniques vs. Techs). Thanks. Lanowen 16:30, July 28, 2006 (GMT)

"Universe"

I was wondering if anyone had any input about the idea of using the word "universe" to describe the "world" or franchise from which various elements (stages, characters, items, etc.) originate. Mainly, does anyone think we should be using a word other than "universe," and does anyone have any suggestions on what we should name the various universes (or worlds, or franchises, etc.)? I don't know that Nintendo has any offical term to discriminate between the different call signs of each character, but that's why we have Unofficial lingo. --Kirby King 23:00, July 29, 2006 (GMT)

Maybe we should just call them franchises.Iggy K 07:31, August 7, 2006 (GMT)

General Structure of SmashWiki

Well we've been testing things for a fair while now, and (hopefully) soon we can post an announcement and officially "open" the wiki to the public. Before we do, though, I'd like to know what people think about the way things are working around here in general. I'm most concerned with features like this portal (does it seem we're even using it for the right purpose? Wikis were never really specific when it came to that...), the various nodes we have on the main page, the basic structure and layout of things... stuff like that. Also, is there anything that seems to be a glaring omission at this point (other than actual content) or things we might want to more clearly spell out for users before we open the floodgates (I'm considering making up a list of goals, and things we should be aiming to accomplish, so that we keep them in mind when making decisions in the future). Simply, it's easier to change these types of things now than it will be when a whole bunch of people are just trying to get accustomed to them all. So feel free to share your thoughts. --Kirby King 03:15, July 30, 2006 (GMT)

I think a good plan would be to browse the wikis for other game sites (SWG, WoW, GW to name a few) and check out how they organize things. We should also plan out the templates and categories we'll need througout the site; doing so beforehand will make things much easier to manage in the future (speaking from personal experience). --nealdt 03:20, July 30, 2006 (GMT)

Use of abbreviations (SSB, SSBM, SSBB)

I'm thinking that for the sake of readability, it might be beneficial to change the abbreviations we use for each of the games. Right now we use SSB/SSBM/SSBB, which is a bit hard to distinguish on sight (not impossible, but as long as they're all Smash games they're all going to start with the same thing). What if we changed that to SSB/Melee/Brawl instead? --Kirby King 17:05, July 30, 2006 (GMT)

I like this idea. We should update category names to match this change, as well (see Category:Techniques (SSBM), which IMO should be changed to Category:Melee techniques. --nealdt 04:00, August 2, 2006 (GMT)

I dunno about the rename. I'd rather have any sort of disambiguatory note to be standardized, and tacking on "(Melee)" to a generic category like techniques seems to make more sense to me, anyway. --Kirby King 22:57, August 2, 2006 (GMT)

It's an idea. We should have a format doctorine made up before the release. Another idea could be to move all things oldsmash into an overhead category called Super Smash Bros (orig), and all things Melee into an overhead categoriy called Super Smash Bros Melee.

Huge balance column on Final Destination

I put one on there because the previous editor had an unprofessionalism that caught my eye (I think he said something like tournies instead of tournaments), and a passage on the balance of the stage. After about 10 seconds of editing, I realised that I had just typed alot of stuff, and moved it to a sub-section, and then typed alot more stuff... but I couldn't think of anything to remove... and I think it's fairly well written and objective... but I dunno. I don't want to delete it because I wrote quite a bit, but I think alot of non-pro smashers have an issue with it (alot of them are kinda scrubby)... seems like I should just make it into an article on SWF or something. I dunno, I'd like to keep that sort of thing out of the wiki, but I read it again, and I'm like, well that's pretty good and covers the issue...

Linking to Categories

Is there a way to link to a category without making that page an article of the category? For example I want a link to the Acronym category page from a page that isn't an acronym, and if I just link normally it registers that page as an acronym. --Gideon 16:46, August 12, 2006 (GMT)

Use this: [[:Category:Acronyms]] --> Category:Acronyms --Kirby King 17:22, August 12, 2006 (GMT)