User talk:Pac attack

Hi there!

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Rtzxy Smashing! 20:34, 20 October 2014 (EDT)

You appear to be new to wikis

So I'm going to give you a bit of help.

1. First of all, when linking to pages, [[Page name]] is fine, [[Page name|Page name]] and [[Page_name|Page name]] are redundant. Note that the underscores in links are not required; spaces are treated the same way. See Help:Editing for more info on links, and Category:Shortcut templates for ways to shorten links (short link=better). Additionally, be aware of redirects (such as the Sonic page, linking to Sonic the Hedgehog) that automatically link to certain pages. [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]] is unnecessary compared to [[Sonic]].
2. You should probably read our trivia policy too. Most of the trivia you added wasn't notable at all; being rather wordy and too specific. And try not to focus your edits on adding trivia, as there are other ways to contribute to the wiki, and the trivia section is, by far, the least important section on any page.
3. Review our Manual of Style, not much to be said there except not speaking in second person.
4. You are not to revert a reversion. You may have gotten the point already (someone warned you in your edit summary) but just in case, I'll put it here.
5. Lastly, use the preview button before saving edits. You appear to make edits in groups of two and three, which clogs the Recent Changes. By using the preview button, you can shorten this to one edit.

That appears to be it; tell me if there's anything you don't understand. Qwerty (talk) 20:49, 20 October 2014 (EDT)

Here's some more tips.

1. Italicize all game names. You italicize words by putting '' at the beginning and end of the word(s) you want to italicize.
2. If you want to name a character for a specific game, say, Mario in Brawl, put {{SSBB|Mario}}, instead of [[Mario (SSBB)|Mario]]. The code is {{<game>|<character>}}, where the game is either SSB, SSBM, SSBB, or SSB4, and the character is the character you want to link to.

Hope this helped. Rtzxy Smashing! 22:01, 20 October 2014 (EDT)

In general, statements of "___ is the only ____" shouldn't be used when there are too many things that satisfy the condition. Miles (talk) 01:48, 21 October 2014 (EDT)

Plural Links

If you want to link the plural version of a word, say, costume, you put [[costume]]s instead of [[costume|costumes]]. Also, in case you haven't already, read the tips given in the above section. Thank you. Rtzxy Smashing! 19:36, 21 October 2014 (EDT)