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:::::::::When I see "Super Smash Bros.", I think "this could be the game or the series, and the context will make it blatantly obvious". When I see "Smash Bros.", I think "the series, unless the writer's a casual". When I see "Smash", I think "could be Smash Bros., but could also be one of hundreds of things with "smash" in the name". | :::::::::When I see "Super Smash Bros.", I think "this could be the game or the series, and the context will make it blatantly obvious". When I see "Smash Bros.", I think "the series, unless the writer's a casual". When I see "Smash", I think "could be Smash Bros., but could also be one of hundreds of things with "smash" in the name". | ||
:::::::::I have no problem with the 64 in SSB64, in case that hasn't been clear anywhere. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Xanthic 06:56, 26 August 2013 (EDT) | :::::::::I have no problem with the 64 in SSB64, in case that hasn't been clear anywhere. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Xanthic 06:56, 26 August 2013 (EDT) | ||
== Pokemon gender pronouns == | |||
So recently, [[Talk:Jigglypuff (PM)#Pokemon gender for Project M|discussion started]] on if pokemon should be referred to by the gender pronoun the PM team refers to them by on their PM pages. This got me thinking, that we should just do away with the "it", and refer to pokemon by the gender pronoun most commonly used for them by the Smash community. [[SmashWiki is not official]], and we made it clear before we'll use the common community term over the official name (e.g., tech over ukemi, tripping over prat falling, etc.). So the reasoning before that we use "it" instead of "he/she" because it's "official" doesn't hold water. Plus, we constantly have users referring to pokemon by their commonly used gender pronoun on the wiki, and often times using them in articles, even inadvertently (I know there been a few times I used he or she instead of it without thinking about it). | |||
So I propose we end the "pokemon are it" policy, and just go with whatever gender pronoun the Smash community associates with the pokemon. <span style="font-family:Edwardian Script ITC; font-size:12pt">[[User:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Omega</span>]] [[User talk:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Tyrant</span>]]</span> [[Image: TyranitarMS.png ]] 00:43, 22 November 2013 (EST) | |||