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SmashWiki talk:Manual of Style/Words to Watch
Proposal discussion
Support, as nom.
--- Monsieur Crow, Author Extraordinaire, 21:13, 1 July 2017 (EDT)
- Support. Good pointers for new users, and I don't see anything that's too pedantic.
Nyargleblargle (Contribs) 01:13, 2 July 2017 (EDT)
For right now, Neutral. I haven't seen the Neutral POV page yet, so whatever I say here could potentially apply here. While this has a place snd I will support it over time, as of now it seems to discourage phrases and words in a way that remind me of the first time Miles took a stab at neutrality. For example, in the section "puffery", you are mostly right that we should explain standpoints instead of over-emphasizing them: however, we shouldn't sugarcoat it either. "Fantastic" and "incredible" should be avoided, yes, but if something is highly above average, then it should be able to be considered among the "best" or "worst". "Sub-par", by definition, means "below average", which therefore would eliminate the usage of a term that really isn't that opinionated. And going back to Cloud's recovery, you can explain why it's one of the worst in the game without simply making it seem like it's merely lackluster when it's not.
Ok, "cliché"'s a really bad way of putting it when I've only ever seen these phrases used correctly. Sure, "mixed bag" can go, but how else do we give characters like Mario a quick description BEFORE we get into everything about him other than "jack-of-all-trades"? If someone doesn't get an idiom, you can't just assume they'll read that and nothing else like idiots. They can either look it up or keep reading and get an idea of what it means.
Less significant, but you mean the mainspace for the profanity segment, right?
Ok, badly written essay over. Ganonmew, The Evil Clone 18:56, 2 July 2017 (EDT)
Comments
This is somewhat of a sister proposal to SmashWiki:Neutral Point of View. As a future reference, in the event one or both of the proposals passes, there are some bits of invisible text on both pages that may need to be made visible.
--- Monsieur Crow, Author Extraordinaire, 21:13, 1 July 2017 (EDT)
