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Gallery page?

With the way the character gallery is being cluttered with Pics of the Day, I think there should a gallery page either for all of SSB4 or for each character article. That is, if we're not going to cut them after SSB4's eventual release. Magiciandude (talk) 16:20, 24 September 2013 (EDT)

If you mean having separate gallery pages, I don't see why this is necessary, as the galleries on the articles are fine. Scr7(talk · contribs) 16:27, 24 September 2013 (EDT)

At the least, maybe have a show/hide option to not clutter the page with images. Magiciandude (talk) 17:13, 24 September 2013 (EDT)

Character professionals categories

Should the categories of character professionals be split into professionals of game-specific characters? Scr7(talk · contribs) 12:32, 30 September 2013 (EDT)

This was supposed to be done at some point and never ended up happening. Toomai Glittershine The Pan-Galactic 13:30, 30 September 2013 (EDT)

Was there a discussion about it? Scr7(talk · contribs) 13:44, 30 September 2013 (EDT)

Here I think. Toomai Glittershine The Brass 13:46, 30 September 2013 (EDT)

I will support this proposal. Awesome Cardinal 2000 16:55, 30 September 2013 (EDT)

Bump. I support as well for splitting the character professionals categories to make this specific. Dots The Achiever 16:46, 3 October 2013 (EDT)

Professionals

Should there be professionals categories for PM characters? Scr7(talk · contribs) 04:23, 30 November 2013 (EST)

Maybe at some point, but I don't know about how you'd define that right now. Toomai Glittershine The Chilled 09:13, 30 November 2013 (EST)

With PM having a tournament scene as active as Melee and Brawl's, plus every character in the game having a sizable amount of players (due to every character aimed at being tournament viable), I don't see why they shouldn't be created shortly. Scr7(talk · contribs) 09:24, 30 November 2013 (EST)

Saying PM has as big of a scene as Melee and Brawl is an exaggeration, when it's still very much a side event and does not have its own tournies. Omega Tyrant 09:33, 30 November 2013 (EST)

Bump I guess. Scr7(talk · contribs) 18:13, 21 January 2014 (EST)

Project M tournaments, I feel, is just a niche compared to Melee and Brawl tournaments. I don't know how much we must extend Project M's coverage in this wiki. I mean, Brawl- and Balanced Brawl both have competitive merit as well. Green Mario 21:31, 21 January 2014 (EST)

PM has had a far more notable tournament scene than the other brawl mods recently, it was even included as one of the games at Apex 2014 and many tournament series (KTAR, Pound, etc.) have added PM to the list of events in their most recent respective tournaments. Scr7(talk · contribs) 01:35, 25 January 2014 (EST)

At Apex 2014, PM had significantly more entrants than Brawl. Not really a niche. Same goes for all of the tournaments I've been to, though they were just locals. Ryxis (talk) 01:43, 25 January 2014 (EST)

Bumping this. PM's scene definitely isn't nearly as big as Melee's, but I'm sure many people agree that it's on par with Brawl's. Any objections to making these categories? Scr7(talk · contribs) 15:34, 30 April 2014 (EDT)

I'll make these categories tomorrow if no one objects. Scr7(talk · contribs) 17:29, 1 May 2014 (EDT)

Assist Trophy Template

I was thinking about adding "Console of Origin" and "Most Recent Appearance" to the {{AssistTrophy}} template. These are 2 pieces of info that are commonplace to have on character pages, and having it on the Assist Trophy pages would be nice. What do you think? ChuckNorris 14:01, 6 January 2014 (EST)

Bump. ChuckNorris 09:29, 7 January 2014 (EST)

Bump again. ChuckNorris 10:21, 8 January 2014 (EST)

Support I don't see why not. Scr7(talk · contribs) 18:13, 21 January 2014 (EST)

I'll go update it. ChuckNorris 10:01, 28 January 2014 (EST)

History of the competitive Smash scene

I noticed that while the wiki has information on the history of individual characters and tier lists, it doesn't have any article on the competitive scene as a whole. In an effort to increase the wiki's coverage of the competitive scene, I propose creating an article called "History of the competitive Smash scene" that covers in detail the major events and phenomena of Smash's competitive scene from Smash 64's release up to today. We already have an article called History of the Midwest Smash Scene (that hasn't been updated in over seven years). Some ideas I have include: covering things such as the nature of tournaments, major tournaments hosted (such as MLG, Apex or Revival of Melee, metagame changes, dominant players at the time, big events (such as the creation of Smashboards, release of the SSBPD and the MLG bracket splitting incident, and more "broader" types of events, such as Melee''s decline after Brawl was released, the advancement of technology used at tournaments, or Project M's rapid increase in popularity. There could be more types of things there as well. However, it would be difficult to organize this properly, determine what gets included, and find information to include (especially before Brawl), and the page would likely be extremely large. The article could be divided by game, or into "time periods" (such as The "First Golden Age of Melee", etc.). Please give me your suggestions below. Awesome Cardinal 2000 22:11, 15 January 2014 (EST)

Bump. Awesome Cardinal 2000 18:51, 19 January 2014 (EST)

Support This seems like a really good idea. People who are new to competitive play (like me) or are interested in competitive play would probably want to find out the origins of it. I also like the idea of each section being a different time period of professional play, that would probably be the simplest way of organizing the article. That's all I have to say. 70.15.29.127 19:02, 19 January 2014 (EST)

I'm not sure if the history will be coherent (since it takes place in different parts of the world), but I would like to see a blueprint of the thing before I support it. I have no clue about the competitive scene, so giving it a brief overview can be helpful for those that want to learn more. Green Mario 17:58, 21 January 2014 (EST)

It seems kinda tricky to do in my opinion. The earliest start of competitive play that I know was Tournament Go. in Melee competitive play, while Smash 64 competitive play may have came later. Its nice to have a history of things but like you said, its either going to be for separate sections of each Smash game's history (which could be confusing for readers) or by chronological means (I prefer this method). Dots (talk) The Saxaphone 18:08, 21 January 2014 (EST)

This seems like a nice idea, especially listing major metagame changes and events, though since major events and incidents at tournaments are already listed on their respective pages, it would be slightly redundant to list them on a separate page in addition to where one would expect to find it more (the tournament's respective page). I don't have too much to say about this atm. Scr7(talk · contribs) 18:13, 21 January 2014 (EST)

Tournaments are a big part of the Smash scene's history, and if an event was really big it should be mentioned in the article. There should be at least some way to integrate major tournaments in the article. Awesome Cardinal 2000 21:54, 24 January 2014 (EST)

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AI Intelligence Reorganization

Artificial intelligence is a really messy list. We can reorganize it as I did in the sandbox: by subsections of each character. I've made a suggestion in the talk page, but I've gotten no response; I don't want this page to be cluttered up, but I also don't want to make major changes without some consent from users.

What I don't want is this page to remain in that state. There's even a ruleset within the page, so the reorganization should make things more self-explanatory rather than complicate them. I am willing to do the work once people O.K. it. Green Mario 18:02, 21 January 2014 (EST)

Support That example in the sandbox looks great, and the character-specific flaws listed on the current article seem to be in no particular order (other than being listed in conjunction with each other), making it pretty inconsistent. Scr7(talk · contribs) 18:13, 21 January 2014 (EST)

Partially Support. I want different pages for AI, such as Mario (SSBB)/AI or such. If we can't do that, then whatever, support, cuz I like what I'm seeing in the sandbox.Qwerty the lord 15:07, 15 June 2014 (EDT)

Competitive namespace

The smasher namespace keeps a boundary between the competitive scene and information directly about the games and how they're played. This is good, in my opinion. It sets a line between how we've interacted with the game and the game itself. So, why are crews out in the mainspace? We have individual players in their own namespace, but groups of players are in the mainspace? In addition, why are tournaments in the mainspace? I feel that there should be a new namespace for all things competitive. It would have crews, smashers, and tournaments, but not competitive techniques, as these are in the game, not outside of it like players, crew, and tournaments are. Ryxis (talk) 15:48, 23 January 2014 (EST) Don't think anyone saw this, so bump. Ryxis (talk) 01:43, 25 January 2014 (EST)

This is really late, but I support doing this in some way per what you said. Scr7(talk · contribs) 15:34, 30 April 2014 (EDT)

Removing Trivia

Many wikis have taken this step already, I feel that a lot of the "information" in trivias is kindof pointless (e.g. "link's green team's color is his default skin") and a lot of other information can end up being incorporated into the article itself. For example, "The wind that Whispy Woods produces is strong enough that it can blow characters off the two lower soft platforms, which can be used for spamming Taunt cancels in Smash 64", this could be said in the main information about the stage, not needing a spot in trivia. Another example is on the pitfall page, where there's only one phrase under trivia saying "If Wario strikes a buried Pitfall while riding on his Wario Bike (and is not wheelieing or taunting), he will be sent flying for an instant KO. This is due to how Wario is considered grounded despite being unable to be buried or plunged, and so he feels the full force of the planted Pitfall's fixed knockback value of a ludicrous 300 (designed for a long bury time)." This can easily be mentioned in the section talking about the damage, or can be mentioned in the Wario page itself.

A lot of trivia is just unneeded and has nothing to do with smash. On the Elec Man page, the one line of trivia is "Elec Man is Keiji Inafune's favorite Robot Master from the first game, because he was the first robot he ever designed.", this has no significance to Smash Bros. and hardly to Mega man. A lot of times Trivia takes away from the article itself to where it could be condensed further. The article for the SSB page, for example, looks extremely thin and skinny at parts yet it's an article for a game. The Characters section has only one line of text and some saving grace from a table and two thumbnails, yet over half of the trivia talks about characters and can be included in that particular section. The rest can even be included in other sections or is unneeded.

So, to help keep the articles on topic and full of content without adding unnecessary sections for scanty or unneeded information, I say we remove trivia sections and stop adding them, and incorporate current trivia into articles where it can be. Nullatrum • ノラトラーン - Talk • タック 13:50, 6 June 2014 (EDT)

Strong Oppose The Trivia section is needed in case there's interesting info that can't go in the main section. ZeldaStarfoxfan2164 (talk) is a never lover boy 14:10, 6 June 2014 (EDT)

This isn't on the table. We have a trivia policy, and trivia sections you think are too large can be tagged. There's no need to remove trivia sections entirely. Miles (talk) 14:22, 6 June 2014 (EDT)

Don't you feel like most of the information in trivia can be said somewhere in the article itself though? And whatever doesn't fit can probably also be incorporated into the article, anything left over probably wasn't needed in the first place, it just seems like a lack of information when so many things are put at the bottom of an article because people would find it easier to mark it as trivia than try to enhance the main article. Nullatrum • ノラトラーン - Talk • タック 14:42, 6 June 2014 (EDT)

"Trivia should only go under a trivia section if it doesn't belong in any other category of data within the article."

Quoted from SW:TRIVIA. How is this not sufficient as a rule? Miles (talk) 14:46, 6 June 2014 (EDT)

Most of the trivia here breaks that rule, though. I can already see a lot of pages that can be revamped with most of the trivia moved to the article itself Nullatrum • ノラトラーン - Talk • タック 14:55, 6 June 2014 (EDT)

There's nothing wrong with incorporating trivia content into the main article, so long as you aren't doing just because you have a personal distaste for trivia sections. If the content is relevant enough to merit inclusion in the article but doesn't belong in a main section of the article, a trivia section is a completely appropriate place to put it. Miles (talk) 14:58, 6 June 2014 (EDT)

Okay, sorry if I came off as rude or abrasive, I just personally think Trivia sections aren't the best for wiki articles but I see how it's used here and understand now. I hope you can see some of my points though and I still do think a lot can be changed, but I'll probably just stay away from editing trivia for now due to my biases on the matter haha. Hopefully I didn't get off on the wrong foot or anything like that. Nullatrum • ノラトラーン - Talk • タック 15:08, 6 June 2014 (EDT)

No harm done. Just wanted to make sure the status of trivia on this wiki was clarified, that's all. Miles (talk) 15:45, 6 June 2014 (EDT)

Character page overhauls

So, the character descriptions are a mess. There is no set standard what so ever for the character descriptions, which allows for short personality descriptions like the one on Sonic to massive summaries of games on character pages like Snake. It'd be a lot better to establish a standard so that the character descriptions don't get too in depth about stuff and so that there's a guideline for all the character pages to follow.

Personal suggestion:

• Mention the debuting game of the character and the major games that have defined or redefined the character in ways relevant to their appearance, personality, or abilities with respect to the Smash games. Summaries on a character's game franchise are unnecessary for our scope.
• Mention basic personality traits and appearances of the character, but don't go to in depth about those. Personality should mention their key defining traits while the appearances shouldn't go into specifics. We have images of the characters for a reason.
• Mention any iconic traits of the character, such as Sonic's super speed, Samus' hand cannon, or even Wolf's rivalry with Fox. Major character relationships are iconic traits.

Thoughts and/or suggestions? MegaTron1XD 22:42, 14 June 2014 (EDT)

As co-writer of this proposal, I support this proposal.

And while we're at it, can we get this forum to be placed on the "Participate" sidebar? It sure is hard to find...

--- Monsieur Crow, Author Extraordinaire, 22:57, 14 June 2014 (EDT)

Support Awesome Cardinal 2000 08:46, 21 June 2014 (EDT)

Missing/Limited Origin sub-template

What with all the new enemies for smash run, and later assist trophies and other minor characters, loads of pages are being created with no origin section and a plain old stub-template. I'm just thinking... would it be a good idea to have a separate template for a missing/incomplete origin section? Or would it be too short lived? ScoreCounter 09:31, 21 June 2014 (EDT)

Items Section's on SSB Game Pages (per Byllant)

Byllant has designed some quality tables that document each of the items in each SSB game. I quite like the idea, and his tables look good and match the style of the rest of the page (see this edit). As these pages are meant to be comprehensive, I find that such an addition is quite welcome. Miles has previously reverted these edits because "Items are an optional component of the game." I do not find this to be a legitimate argument, as we could just as easily not cover the Subspace Emissary on the Brawl page under that standard. Regardless of their use in competitive play, or their modular nature, items are indeed coded as a major part of the games, and as such should be covered in a comprehensive dossier. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 10:08, 11 July 2014 (EDT)

To clarify, I only said that their significance was more ambiguous relative to characters and stages. I'm not averse to having an item table on the game pages. That said, if we do so, we need a significantly more compact layout than Byllant's design, since there are many more items than characters or stages which are already listed in similar tables. Miles (talk) 10:31, 11 July 2014 (EDT)

Demo, Merchandise, and Interview pages

Team Lightning Super Smash Bros. diecast car, boxed.

The above diecast car, unboxed.

Separated into three points for convenience.

• OK, so the main one I would want to make is a demos page, since we've had three for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, one for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Likely to get one or two more for this one as well), two or so for Brawl, and two for Melee. I think the page itself would be a nice way to article the differences from them to release and just about their general features (a lot of these demos are now unavailable so it's gonna be a bit harder to do the page now than, say, back when SmashFest was going on, but hindsight is 20/20), I really don't know why we have a page for them already.
• As for merchandise, there isn't a ton that I know about, but I think there's a decent amount for a page (especially since I know there's more than this), there's the Smash Sticker, Button, and Choice cards from Smashfest and the invitational, respectively, the UK pre-order shirt and wristband, amiibos of course, and the little toy car that was on the Smash Bros. page (Seen to the right). I think there is more though, but I'm not really sure where I saw them.....
• Finally, for an Interviews page, I'm not feeling all too strongly about, but a friend wanted me to recommend it. Basically it'd be a collection of interviews of the Super Smash Bros. series (From important people, not just any interview willy-nilly that mentions Smash Bros.), while it seems like a good idea on paper, it seems like it'd be a lot of work and might require multiple pages (e.g. Interviews (1999-2004), Interviews (2005-2009), etc. I don't know what exact ranges they'd be though), the pay-off of this though, is having a source that's right at are finger tips for articles, a more "complete" feel to the wiki, and an easy way to track beta elements.

So, what do you think? Do these pages deserve articles? I think the most worthy is the top one, but that's just me. I wanted to bring them up here before making articles on them, since it seems odd that we don't have an article yet on any of these, and there may be a good reason for that. Laikue (talk|contribs) 14:51, 17 October 2014 (EDT)

Merchandise, definitely. Demos, potentially. Interviews, definitely not. Miles (talk) 15:04, 17 October 2014 (EDT)

Merchandise and demos are all right, because they are important to the Smash community. Interviews, however, shouldn't get their own article(s). They don't seem that important to me, and are anyways unneeded and unnecessary. Rtzxy Smashing! 15:09, 17 October 2014 (EDT)

Like I said, I wasn't feeling strongly about an interviews page, I've already started collecting info on different merchandise and demos though. Laikue (talk|contribs) 15:14, 17 October 2014 (EDT)

You can continue collecting info for merchandise and demos, but not interviews. Rtzxy Smashing! 15:17, 17 October 2014 (EDT)

If we make a merchandise article, I can add the Smash Bros. keyring that was given away at EGX to it, if we are adding all of those Smashfest giveaway items. They were also giving away some weird black boxes with the game's logos on it at the same place (maybe a cartridge holder?), but I sadly wasn't able to get one. Toast ltimatum 16:21, 17 October 2014 (EDT)

That would be great! If you could get some pictures of them, I'm compiling a page on my sandbox which, for right now, is just a compilation of different pieces of merchandise. It would be really helpful if you could edit the page with the items once you get pictures of them. (I myself am working on getting pictures of a few other things.) Laikue (talk|contribs) 16:28, 17 October 2014 (EDT)

Glossary

I've been developing a glossary for Smashwiki for some time now, and I'd like to see it finally get somewhere. I realize it isn't necessarily a policy or guideline, so I was thinking of adding it to the "Help" pages, but still, I'd like some feedback on it: Is it good enough, where does it fit on the wiki, what it would take to get it places. --HavocReaper48 20:01, 23 January 2015 (EST)

As the original progenitor of this idea, I suggest [[SmashWiki:Glossary]] should be a help page, and approve of its current state. Toomai Glittershine The Incomperable 21:18, 23 January 2015 (EST)

I feel like that this is a pretty neat terms dictionary. I would personally agree on having this. Dots (talk) The Gangnum Style 00:23, 24 January 2015 (EST)

Franchise (Universe) pages all unorganized

All Franchise (Universe) pages are unorganized. When talking about what each franchise has in each Smash game, they are never globally organized. Some have Trophies before Music, some have Common Enemies before Stages, Mii Costumes are placed randomly, etc. I thought it would be a good idea to establish to some kind of guideline for each page. Maybe we can follow the in-game trophy organization: Characters > Items > Assists > Enemies > Stages > Misc. GmanSir (talk) 15:40, 8 January 2016 (EST)

If they are not uniform, then they need to be fixed. I would say the order should go like this: Characters > Assists > Items > Enemies > Stages > Music > Trophies > Misc. To me, this seems like the most rational order. John PK SMAAAASH!! 17:11, 8 January 2016 (EST)

Where should Mii Costumes go? After trophies or earlier? Also, does it matter at all that the templates at the bottom of the pages are in a different order, or could we try to make the page match the order of said templates?? GmanSir (talk) 00:15, 9 January 2016 (EST)

Everything should be matched and consistent. I don't really know where to put the Mii Costumes. We should ask the others for their input and then implement the changes. John PK SMAAAASH!! 14:06, 9 January 2016 (EST)

This might seem crazy...

I think the IRC should be entirely replaced by Discord. The main reasoning for one to shoot this down would most likely be "why?" or "unnecessary.". However, there are several solid reasons as to why I think this should be done. I am very well aware that IRC is the traditional, most accepted form of communication outside of talk pages on most wikis. But simply put: Discord does it better, easier, and is more user friendly in my opinion. This is a video game wiki, and having general or off topic discussion related to games on Discord is precisely what it's designed for. The fact that it has such an intuitive channel system makes it so certain topics can be sorted in different channels. It doesn't need a client side download since it's just a website and, as emphasized before, is more user friendly. I could come up with different examples to convey why this is a good proposal but I'll leave it at this for now. I'd appreciate any wiki staff to create a discord for SmashWiki and see how it goes. If people show up there to converse then the IRC's existence is somewhat irrelevant. RobSir zx 00:15, 13 April 2016 (EDT)

-_- Strong Oppose I can't access discord at school, because of the firewalls. I can access the IRC however, because I have an app that lets me do so. Making the chat Discord would prevent me from using it at all while I am at school. Also, Safari on iPad. It reloads a page every 10 seconds. DekZek 11:20, 13 April 2016 (EDT)

"An app that lets me do so".

Well ok then. MegaTron1 12:35, 13 April 2016 (EDT)

Would one need to create an account to use it? Why don't we remove Special:WebChat then? -- Ethan(Discussion) 11:25, 13 April 2016 (EDT)

See below. MegaTron1 12:35, 13 April 2016 (EDT)

...What? Absolutely not. Serpent King 11:39, 13 April 2016 (EDT)

Very meaningful contribution to the discussion, I'm sure. MegaTron1 12:35, 13 April 2016 (EDT)

Oppose I would support this....but there is nothing wrong with our current system whatsoever. To top it off, you also have to create an account on Discord and I think you have to be invited or something like that. Bottom line is, moving to Discord will create more problems than it'll solve. Disaster Flare (talk) 11:41, 13 April 2016 (EDT)

You don't have to create an account, and you can get into the channel with just a link. I don't know where you're getting this information from. There's nothing really wrong with IRC as is, I'll give you that. MegaTron1 12:35, 13 April 2016 (EDT)

NO IRC is a very easy, free, and useful way to interact. Discord being nothing new to the table that's actually needed. We are fine. Penro 12:23, 13 April 2016 (EDT)

I mean, there are people (such as myself) who have no access to the IRC, but that's what WebChat is for. So really, I don't see a need for change. Aidan, the Wandering Dragon Warrior 12:26, 13 April 2016 (EDT)

Discord is just as easy to access, honestly. I don't see what your point is besides the lack of need to change. MegaTron1 12:35, 13 April 2016 (EDT)

Lack of need to change. Exactly. Penro 12:40, 13 April 2016 (EDT)

Discord brings with it the complete chat history and instant-displays of images and videos (which you can disable), while also allowing you to create separate chat rooms for each server. This would have been hella useful back when the IRC area led to conflicts and DANK MEME wars, but from what I gather, just about all of you are boring as hell good users that don't start conflicts. MegaTron1 12:45, 13 April 2016 (EDT)

Ok, ok. Nobody panic. If a lot of people are clearly against this idea, how about a discord for the wiki on the side to see how it is. The IRC can stay. When I have ample time I plan to make some solidified arguments to prove my point. Mega made a few already. RobSir zx 13:36, 13 April 2016 (EDT)

No. There is no need to do this, period. There is nothing wrong with our current system whatsoever. I stand corrected about what I said about account creation and stuff, but there is no need to make a change at all if there's nothing that calls for said change. That's how the wiki's always functioned. Disaster Flare (talk) 13:39, 13 April 2016 (EDT)

Opposition. Why fix what isn't broken, especially when it's far from being broken? BaconMaster 15:43, 13 April 2016 (EDT)