SmashWiki:Manual of Style: Revision history

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curprev 15:1215:12, March 17, 2024‎ Omega Tyrant talk contribs‎ m 18,256 bytes +86‎ →‎Tournament pages

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curprev 19:1519:15, June 6, 2023‎ Omega Tyrant talk contribs‎ m 18,170 bytes −84‎ Undid edit by Bwburke94: We should have the articles, do not remove red links to articles that we should have, and some are of these are already in progress by other users Tag: Undo
curprev 18:4418:44, June 6, 2023‎ Bwburke94 talk contribs‎ 18,254 bytes +84‎ Because we'll likely never have articles for individual countries, linking to the categories instead. Tag: Reverted

curprev 17:2817:28, June 3, 2023‎ Omega Tyrant talk contribs‎ 18,170 bytes +276‎ →‎Tournament pages: Also codifying this, after discussions on discord about it some weeks ago.
curprev 16:3716:37, June 3, 2023‎ Omega Tyrant talk contribs‎ m 17,894 bytes +2‎ Undid edit by Ac2k: ZeRo was deliberately chosen as the example because he was the player who most notoriously got misflagged and is the main reason for us clarifying how players should be flagged Tag: Undo
curprev 04:4304:43, June 3, 2023‎ Ac2k talk contribs‎ m 17,892 bytes −2‎ →‎Tournament pages: replacing the example Tags: Reverted Disambiguation links

curprev 23:3123:31, May 9, 2023‎ Omega Tyrant talk contribs‎ m 17,894 bytes +52‎ →‎Article titles

curprev 01:3901:39, April 23, 2023‎ Omega Tyrant talk contribs‎ m 17,842 bytes +7‎ No edit summary

curprev 22:5522:55, April 20, 2023‎ Omega Tyrant talk contribs‎ 17,835 bytes +973‎ →‎Tournament pages: Noticed we have nothing about what flags to give players, so fixing that.

curprev 22:4022:40, April 16, 2023‎ Cookies and Creme talk contribs‎ m 16,862 bytes 0‎ No edit summary

curprev 23:5523:55, April 15, 2023‎ Omega Tyrant talk contribs‎ 16,862 bytes +2,095‎ →‎Tournament pages: Nothing was here about documenting results, so wrote it down.

curprev 17:3517:35, April 14, 2023‎ Toomai talk contribs‎ 14,767 bytes +211‎ apparently we didn't have a "don't do a plagiarism" rule, so adding that in

curprev 12:5412:54, August 8, 2022‎ Porplemontage talk contribs‎ m 14,556 bytes 0‎ Protected "SmashWiki:Manual of Style" ([Edit=Allow only autoconfirmed users] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite))

curprev 23:1623:16, April 12, 2022‎ PorpleBot talk contribs‎ m 14,556 bytes −1‎ Text replacement - "== ([^=])" to "== $1"

curprev 11:2711:27, October 30, 2021‎ Toomai talk contribs‎ m 14,557 bytes +1‎ Undid edit by PorpleBot: bad bot (this should've been noticed sooner) Tag: Undo

curprev 19:1519:15, May 1, 2021‎ RickTommy talk contribs‎ 14,556 bytes +30‎ No edit summary

curprev 09:1909:19, February 21, 2021‎ Omega Tyrant talk contribs‎ 14,526 bytes +432‎ →‎Tournament pages: Should make a note about character usage in pools.

curprev 12:2112:21, February 10, 2021‎ PorpleBot talk contribs‎ m 14,094 bytes −1‎ Text replacement - "\[\[(:)?Image:" to "[[$1File:"

curprev 16:1616:16, January 6, 2021‎ Awesomelink234 talk contribs‎ 14,095 bytes +276‎ →‎Writing style

curprev 13:3613:36, November 12, 2020‎ MeatBall104 talk contribs‎ m 13,819 bytes +35‎ →‎Sections/headings

curprev 18:1718:17, October 3, 2020‎ Alex the weeb talk contribs‎ 13,784 bytes −142‎ Undid edit by Black Vulpine: No, it's not. All relevant smash material so far uses male and female pronouns Tag: Undo
curprev 18:1418:14, October 3, 2020‎ Black Vulpine talk contribs‎ 13,926 bytes +142‎ Undid edit by Serena Strawberry: That's still very much a point of contention. Tag: Undo
curprev 11:1411:14, October 3, 2020‎ StrawberryChan talk contribs‎ m 13,784 bytes −142‎ using he for steve or she for alex should be fine now

curprev 19:1319:13, October 1, 2020‎ Black Vulpine talk contribs‎ 13,926 bytes +142‎ →‎Writing style: Appending the Steve and Alex exception for gender pronouns.

curprev 18:4618:46, April 11, 2020‎ Toomai talk contribs‎ 13,784 bytes +649‎ people have been asking to write down these unwritten rules, so here goes

curprev 20:2620:26, March 5, 2020‎ Toomai talk contribs‎ 13,135 bytes +465‎ clarifying some things that have always been unwritten rules (NTSC/PAL terms, use of terms not in spellcheckers)

curprev 22:1322:13, September 1, 2019‎ Awesomelink234 talk contribs‎ m 12,670 bytes −1‎ →‎Article titles
curprev 22:1022:10, September 1, 2019‎ Awesomelink234 talk contribs‎ 12,671 bytes +184‎ →‎Article titles: Future-proofing, after reading the conversation on Discord

curprev 08:3008:30, March 1, 2019‎ Toomai talk contribs‎ 12,487 bytes −43‎ →‎Writing style: people seem mostly in agreement about this sort of thing (tweaked it a bit to emphasize that readability is important) (also added a small point on USA/UK English) (also made minor tweaks to ICs point)

curprev 02:3202:32, February 26, 2019‎ Lou Cena talk contribs‎ 12,530 bytes +45‎ →‎Writing style: I footnoted this out, so this isn’t an official rule yet, but I don’t see concrete evidence for keeping default gender yet

curprev 00:2600:26, February 25, 2019‎ Lou Cena talk contribs‎ 12,485 bytes +213‎ →‎Writing style
curprev 00:2400:24, February 25, 2019‎ Lou Cena talk contribs‎ 12,272 bytes +314‎ No edit summary

curprev 23:2523:25, January 15, 2019‎ Toomai talk contribs‎ 11,958 bytes −6‎ Undid edit by 184.181.102.188: jumping the gun
curprev 21:3721:37, January 15, 2019‎ 184.181.102.188 talk‎ 11,964 bytes +6‎ →‎Writing style: have we all come to a consensus on whether to keep this rule? The talk page had 4 against keeping the rule, 2 in favour of keeping it, and 1 neutral

curprev 20:2920:29, March 11, 2018‎ Ac2k talk contribs‎ m 11,958 bytes +336‎ →‎Article titles

curprev 00:1000:10, December 26, 2017‎ Black Vulpine talk contribs‎ 11,622 bytes +49‎ →‎Internal links

curprev 20:0920:09, October 8, 2017‎ Black Vulpine talk contribs‎ m 11,573 bytes +12‎ →‎Article titles: Making a minor wording change.

curprev 23:4023:40, June 27, 2017‎ Queen Junko talk contribs‎ 11,561 bytes +25‎ →‎Writing style: Is this okay?

curprev 07:4607:46, June 13, 2017‎ Black Vulpine talk contribs‎ 11,536 bytes +59‎ →‎Levels: Adding examples.

curprev 05:0505:05, May 5, 2017‎ Black Vulpine talk contribs‎ 11,477 bytes −6‎ →‎Internal links: My previous edit was a bit rough around the edges. I'm fixing it up a bit here.
curprev 02:4402:44, May 5, 2017‎ Black Vulpine talk contribs‎ 11,483 bytes +239‎ →‎Internal links: Since it's a new issue that needs to be addressed, advice on long links.

curprev 04:0404:04, May 3, 2017‎ Black Vulpine talk contribs‎ 11,244 bytes 0‎ →‎Wording: You never capitalise conjunctions in titles anyway, unless they're the first word in the title.

curprev 11:5411:54, September 2, 2016‎ Miles of SmashWiki talk contribs‎ 11,244 bytes +5‎ →‎Captions

curprev 23:3623:36, April 21, 2016‎ Amber Blackstar talk contribs‎ 11,239 bytes −4‎ Undid edit by BlitzTails: MK is no doubt the best Brawl fighter, and it's also just a policy, so we really don't have to change wording.
curprev 23:3523:35, April 21, 2016‎ BlitzTails talk contribs‎ m 11,243 bytes +4‎ →‎Writing style - Even gudelines should adhere to the guidelines

curprev 17:5417:54, April 16, 2016‎ Poultry talk contribs‎ m 11,239 bytes +1‎ No edit summary

curprev 21:4521:45, March 22, 2016‎ Bwburke94 talk contribs‎ 11,238 bytes +22‎ No edit summary

curprev 08:1308:13, March 18, 2016‎ Zyrac talk contribs‎ 11,216 bytes +173‎ Actually, upon further reflection I can see the intent there. It just needed clarifying. I dunno if glancing blow is really a good example though...
curprev 05:5105:51, March 18, 2016‎ Zyrac talk contribs‎ 11,043 bytes −7‎ →‎Article titles: This example makes no sense - "glancing blow" is the official term. Changed it to short hop.

curprev 22:2722:27, March 5, 2016‎ Miles of SmashWiki talk contribs‎ 11,050 bytes −243‎ Undid edit by Serpent King: consider reworking how you phrase this, there are definite instances where using numeric form for smaller numbers is desirable (such as % damage from attacks)
curprev 22:1422:14, March 5, 2016‎ Serpent King talk contribs‎ m 11,293 bytes +243‎ →‎Writing style

curprev 00:3200:32, February 9, 2016‎ Fenyx4 talk contribs‎ m 11,050 bytes +34‎ Added an example for the entry about writing style pertinent to characters with alternate costumes of more than one gender.

curprev 22:1522:15, January 27, 2016‎ Serpent King talk contribs‎ 11,016 bytes −11‎ Undid edit by Penro: I intentionally left that out, not really necessary, as it's just a capital check.
curprev 22:1322:13, January 27, 2016‎ Penro talk contribs‎ m 11,027 bytes +11‎ No edit summary

curprev 22:2022:20, January 24, 2016‎ ScizorSteelix talk contribs‎ 11,016 bytes +130‎ →‎Writing style: per discussion, as a consensus was mostly reached.
curprev 13:4713:47, January 24, 2016‎ TheNuttyOne talk contribs‎ 10,886 bytes −1‎ Undid edit by Nintendofan1653: Bring it up on the page then, but that's not how this works
curprev 13:4613:46, January 24, 2016‎ Poultry talk contribs‎ 10,887 bytes +1‎ →‎Article titles: more commonly refered to as phantom hit

curprev 00:3400:34, November 19, 2015‎ Fenyx4 talk contribs‎ 10,886 bytes +231‎ Added an entry regarding disambiguation pages, as per the discussion on the talk page for "Manual of Style".

curprev 22:4622:46, August 9, 2015‎ Toomai talk contribs‎ 10,655 bytes +80‎ minor notes

curprev 07:0907:09, June 10, 2015‎ Smiddle talk contribs‎ m 10,575 bytes +1‎ →‎Writing style: standard unit spacing

curprev 00:1300:13, December 4, 2014‎ Toomai talk contribs‎ 10,574 bytes +287‎ →‎Writing style: adding metric stipulation

curprev 11:0811:08, August 3, 2014‎ Berrenta talk contribs‎ 10,287 bytes +126‎ →‎Writing style: Added a bullet point for handling fighters like Villager, Wii Fit Trainer, and Robin. We could note Mii Fighters as an exception to this if needed.

curprev 17:1417:14, July 30, 2014‎ Oscuritaforze talk contribs‎ m 10,161 bytes −24‎ Undid edit by LinkEvan: ???
curprev 16:5916:59, July 30, 2014‎ LinkEvan talk contribs‎ 10,185 bytes +24‎ No edit summary

curprev 13:1013:10, May 27, 2014‎ PikaSamus talk contribs‎ m 10,161 bytes +33‎ →‎Internal links

curprev 19:4219:42, May 13, 2014‎ 75.85.64.155 talk‎ 10,128 bytes −4‎ No edit summary

curprev 13:3813:38, April 25, 2014‎ PikaSamus talk contribs‎ m 10,132 bytes 0‎ →‎Writing style

curprev 11:1511:15, February 13, 2014‎ Toomai talk contribs‎ 9,923 bytes +7‎ elaborating on some things, replacing uncommon words with more-quickly-understood ones, removing things that instead belong on a "how to format" page

curprev 16:2516:25, January 27, 2014‎ Brawls of fury talk contribs‎ m 9,916 bytes +107‎ →‎Internal links: idea from Wikipedia

curprev 03:3003:30, November 25, 2013‎ Spabble talk contribs‎ m 9,809 bytes +4‎ →‎Writing style: Fixed a few grammatical issues.
curprev 00:5400:54, November 25, 2013‎ Spabble talk contribs‎ m 9,805 bytes 0‎ →‎Writing style: Removed an unnecessary hyphen and added a required comma.

curprev 10:4210:42, September 2, 2013‎ MHStarCraft talk contribs‎ 9,805 bytes +12‎ →‎Writing style: Personally, I think SSB64 is also a proper term for Super Smash Bros.

curprev 23:0923:09, August 25, 2013‎ Miles of SmashWiki talk contribs‎ 9,793 bytes +11‎ Undid edit by Ac2k: unless you see the talk page discussion as resolved, there are multiple standards. if you see the talk page discussion as resolved, you are imagining things.
curprev 22:4522:45, August 25, 2013‎ Ac2k talk contribs‎ m 9,782 bytes −11‎ No there aren't, see what we told you
curprev 22:2822:28, August 25, 2013‎ Miles of SmashWiki talk contribs‎ m 9,793 bytes +1‎ →‎Writing style
curprev 22:2822:28, August 25, 2013‎ Miles of SmashWiki talk contribs‎ 9,792 bytes +10‎ →‎Writing style: I loathe "Smash 64" as a shorthand, but at the very least we should acknowledge there are multiple acceptable options.

curprev 11:2611:26, July 6, 2013‎ Omega Tyrant talk contribs‎ m 9,782 bytes +522‎ →‎Writing style: We should have this written somewhere on the Wiki.

curprev 00:0200:02, June 25, 2013‎ Omega Tyrant talk contribs‎ m 9,260 bytes +67‎ →‎Writing style: Since no one commented on it, I'll just go and add it, Also added note regarding the original Smash

curprev 07:5207:52, June 23, 2013‎ Omega Tyrant talk contribs‎ m 9,193 bytes +212‎ →‎Writing style

curprev 08:1208:12, June 14, 2013‎ Smiddle talk contribs‎ m 7,654 bytes −5‎ →‎Internal links: -tautology

curprev 13:0213:02, February 11, 2013‎ PikaSamus talk contribs‎ m 7,659 bytes +8‎ No edit summary

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curprev 18:3518:35, December 5, 2012‎ Blue Ninjakoopa talk contribs‎ m 7,647 bytes +4‎ →‎Writing style: we don't use "kilt", "smelt", or "spelt." Out of all of those anyway, "spelt" is the one that is legitimately wrong.

curprev 15:3015:30, September 22, 2012‎ RoyboyX talk contribs‎ 7,643 bytes +1‎ →‎Article titles: Missing a bracket.

curprev 13:5213:52, August 7, 2012‎ Mr. Anon talk contribs‎ m 7,642 bytes −484‎ Undid edit by Naked Snake:lack of consensus
curprev 12:4512:45, August 7, 2012‎ Naked Snake talk contribs‎ 8,126 bytes +484‎ →‎Writing style: Added section on profanity (see talk page of SW:NPA)

curprev 13:3713:37, July 14, 2012‎ Toomai talk contribs‎ 7,642 bytes +237‎ →‎Spacing: was noted on talk page, should be written here (also noting table spacing)

curprev 10:3410:34, July 5, 2012‎ JamesHeart123 talk contribs‎ m 7,157 bytes −16‎ →‎Article titles
curprev 10:2310:23, July 5, 2012‎ Naked Snake talk contribs‎ m 7,173 bytes +14‎ →‎Article titles
curprev 10:2210:22, July 5, 2012‎ Naked Snake talk contribs‎ 7,159 bytes −6‎ →‎Article titles: Reworded one of the points so that it makes more logical sense when read.

curprev 20:4220:42, June 23, 2012‎ Toomai talk contribs‎ 7,165 bytes +5‎ Undid edit by ToastUltimatum: the two examples should not show the same thing - one has the fan name win, the other has the official name win
curprev 20:2220:22, June 23, 2012‎ ToastUltimatum talk contribs‎ m 7,160 bytes +1‎ →‎Article titles: Also, typos are not stylish
curprev 20:2220:22, June 23, 2012‎ ToastUltimatum talk contribs‎ m 7,159 bytes −5‎ →‎Article titles: It still burns, but this does make for a better example. Bleh.

curprev 21:0221:02, May 24, 2012‎ Toomai talk contribs‎ 7,164 bytes +41‎ because certain people need to be reminded of this

curprev 09:3209:32, May 1, 2012‎ Clarinet Hawk talk contribs‎ m 7,123 bytes +7‎ →‎Formatting: and it should be single
curprev 09:3109:31, May 1, 2012‎ Clarinet Hawk talk contribs‎ m 7,116 bytes +4‎ →‎Formatting: apostrophe refers to a specific use of the curly quote. The straight quote is used in coding.

curprev 12:1212:12, January 30, 2012‎ 72.3.33.70 talk‎ 7,112 bytes 0‎ Spelling correction.

curprev 09:4009:40, July 9, 2011‎ Smiddle talk contribs‎ 7,112 bytes +252‎ →‎Writing style

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curprev 02:4402:44, December 28, 2010‎ SuperHamster talk contribs‎ 6,480 bytes +166‎ →‎Formatting: Adding guide for bolding text with an example shown

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curprev 10:3410:34, December 23, 2010‎ Toomai talk contribs‎ 6,294 bytes +2,605‎ any objections? I think not

curprev 16:2716:27, October 14, 2010‎ Miles of SmashWiki talk contribs‎ m 3,689 bytes +13‎ →‎Wikilinking

curprev 21:4821:48, October 1, 2010‎ Megatron1 talk contribs‎ m 3,676 bytes 0‎ 1 revision: accelerates speed of export if I don't get the history

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curprev 16:0416:04, October 10, 2008‎ Miles.oppenheimer talk contribs‎ m 3,462 bytes −32‎ Undid revision 193947 by Murillohfb (Talk) not needed.
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curprev 17:1117:11, March 15, 2008‎ smashwikia>Dtm142‎ m 3,462 bytes −2‎ →‎Game names: Then don't bold the line XD

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