Editing Talk:Neutral attack

Can someone tell me how to chose between Melee Link's two tipes of jab? [[User:Firewario]] [[user talk:Firewario]] 9th April 2009 23:24 (UTC)

== Weak attack ==

I might be wrong, but I think I can recall it being called "Weak attack" somewhere officially. Anyone else recognising it? – [[User:Smiddle|Smiddle]]<sub>[[user talk:Smiddle|T]]</sub> 07:22, 3 July 2011 (EDT)
:In ''Melee'', you got a bonus called "Wimpy KO" for KOing someone with a "weak attack", which was referring to KOing someone with your jab. <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 ]] 07:45, 3 July 2011 (EDT)
::That's weird, I could've sworn that I've heard it somewhere more notable... – [[User:Smiddle|Smiddle]]<sub>[[user talk:Smiddle|T]]</sub> 18:49, 3 July 2011 (EDT)

==Meta Knight and notable neutrals==
I just noticed that below the ''Brawl'' neutral aerials, there is a section about metaknight's infinite jab.
It's not an infinite jab, the animation shows 10 slashes and You can keep it going if you hold the attack button. That's just a consecutive jab!

Also, I noticed that on some other articles, such as forward aerial, there is a section on notable attacks. Do we need that here?[[Special:Contributions/75.85.64.155|75.85.64.155]] 12:39, 26 January 2014 (EST)
:MK's jab is an infinite in all its technical aspects, so that's how we should probably treat it.
:I'm not sure we need a section on notable jabs (are there really any?). [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Frivolous 12:46, 26 January 2014 (EST)
:: Ike's jab is most definitely notable, especially in vBrawl. — [[User:Jigglypuff the Magic Dragon|Jigglypuff the Magic Dragon]] ([[User talk:Jigglypuff the Magic Dragon|talk]]) [[File:Jigglypuff_the_Magic_Dragon_sig.png]] 14:45, 26 January 2014 (EST)

== "Standard attack" ==

I thought "standard attack" referred to any ground-based A move, to distinguish them from special attacks. Am I mistaken? &ndash; [[User:Smiddle|Smiddle]] 05:31, 9 October 2015 (EDT)
:I think it officially refers to a jab, but I have heard it used to describe tilts before. Not specials or smashes though. [[User:Serpent King|<span style="font-family:Chiller; font-size:18px; color:rgb(220, 85, 0); text-shadow:0px 0px 3px DarkGray;">Serpent<span style="font-size:12pt;>∞</span>King</span>]] [[User talk:Serpent King|(<span style="font-family:Chiller; font-size:18px;">talk</span>)]] 05:34, 9 October 2015 (EDT)
::Officially, it means a jab. Unofficially, it means any attack you can do with the A button (i.e. jab, tilts, smashes and aerials). [[User:Zyrac|Zyrac]] ([[User talk:Zyrac|talk]]) 05:49, 9 October 2015 (EDT)

==Move proposal==
Hello, SmashWiki. It's been a long while since I was active here, but I've always felt this to be a necessary proposal. In order to better fulfill the wiki's purpose as an accurate, community-friendly encyclopedia, I strongly believe this page should be moved to '''Jab'''. Here are, in detail, my reasons why:

*'''It's much more widely used by the community'''. I'll open this with what I believe to be a cornerstone of any wiki on a scale comparable to ours, and an important point to remember going forward: SmashWiki is not a forum where the community decides what terms should be used. It's a hub intended to promote the community's process of learning and studying. SmashWiki editors constitute only a small portion of the Smash community at large, and thus the wiki should minimize throwing around terms that sound alien to this large portion of outsiders as if they were widely accepted. Within the more competitive, dedicated community - the one our documentation is predominantly centered around - you'll see "jab" resonate much better than "neutral attack". To prove this, I looked into some Smash-related Discord servers, including our own, and put both terms in the search bar. This is what I found as of the current date:
**SmashWiki: 1162 results for jab - 79 results for neutral attack
**Kurogane Hammer: 2394 - 10
**Mario Discord: 4051 - 27
**Luigi Discord: 3885 - 79
**Belmont Discord: 2372 - 32
**Mega Man Discord: 3642 - 45
**Ridley Discord: 6911 - 70
**Wolf Discord: 6266 - 40

Our server has the most proportionate instances of "neutral attack" by a significant margin, and even then the term is orders of magnitude less common than "jab". Uses of "neutral attack" are borderline negligible in the rest. Moreover, a fair number of the results for neutral attack are just Discord picking out the words "neutral" and "attack" from different parts of a message, not for the actual term. One could make the argument that jab is an actual word that can get used in non-Smash contexts, but these are Smash-centric Discords, so the usage of the actual Smash term is (and will be) much more common either way. And these are just a few examples. I can't provide concrete results for Smash communities in other media like Twitter or YouTube, since it's not as convenient to search results in less established places, but given several of the same members from the Discords are also there, you're bound to find very similar results.

Here, let me also bring '''rapid jabs''' into the debate. This term is even more widely used than the "neutral infinite" name we seem to have analogous to neutral attack, and especially more than the official name of "flurry attack", to the point our own wiki pages use it a lot more often. Just to corroborate, here are once again results from the same Discord servers, searching "rapid jab", "neutral infinite", and "flurry attack":
**SmashWiki: 173 - 6 - 7
**Kurogane Hammer: 340 - 2 - 2
**Mario Discord: 177 - 1 - 0
**Luigi Discord: 145 - 1 - 2
**Belmont Discord: 126 - 3 - 4
**Mega Man Discord: 128 - 2 - 2
**Ridley Discord: 670 - 1 - 8
**Wolf Discord: 216 - 2 - 3

Even more significant ratio here, right?

*'''Official terms aren't the law'''. Jabs are indeed given the official name "neutral attack" in Ultimate. But this is where one of our most essential and ubiquitously-influential policies comes into play as a counterargument: [[SW:OFFICIAL|SmashWiki is not official]]. We do not call [[tech]]s "breaking your fall". We do not call [[DI]] "launch shuffling", nor [[SDI]] "hitstun shuffling". For that matter, we've made it clear that the "hitstun" in question – the freeze period upon a hit – is to be called [[hitlag]], while actual [[hitstun]] is a character's inactionable period during knockback. Likewise, we never abided closely to calling [[tilt attack]]s "strong attacks" when the latter was an official term. We do not call [[forward tilt]]s "side tilts", which I'd even argue is a more common term in the community at large than neutral attack or any of the aforementioned. When our continuous use of "neutral attack" is not in line with one of our most important policies, that we base such a large part of how we convey information here, I hardly believe it's a tenable position to hold.

*'''Jab has also been an official term'''. That's right, Ultimate actually has one instance of using jab as a term for this move! The description of the [[Skill Tree|Skills]] in World of Light that enhance jabs states "Increases the power of neutral attacks, ''such as jabs''". It's not quite conclusive since it strangely uses both terms in the same sentence, but it does give an idea that a sizable amount of "neutral attacks" can be referred to as "jabs", which at least acknowledges the term as used by the community to some degree, even if not directly.

That sums up my points. With everything laid out on the table like this, I hope this is as clear a proposal as it can be. [[File:034.png|20px]] '''<span style="font-family:Consolas"><font color="red">[[User:DrakRoar|DrakRoar]] [[User talk:DrakRoar|the game design dragon]]</font></span>''' 20:49, January 14, 2021 (EST)
:I '''support''' this move. ...I honestly don't think I've seen/heard a whole lot of people say "neutral attack" in favor of "jab" myself. [[User:Aidanzapunk|<span style="color: blue;">'''Aidan'''</span>]], [[User talk:Aidanzapunk|<span style="color: blue;">'''the Rurouni'''</span>]] 02:30, January 15, 2021 (EST)
:'''Support''': Not much else to add, considering jab is somewhat official now. [[File:Toad.png|20px]] '''[[User:Omega Toad|<font color="deepskyblue">Omegα Toαd,</font>]] [[User talk:Omega Toad|<font color="blue">the Toαd Wαrrior.</font>]] [[Special:Contributions/Omega Toad|<font color="#7B5BEE">(BUP)</font>]]''' 03:25, January 15, 2021 (EST)

You are correct that the community at large uses "jab" far more frequently. However, consider the following:
# Unlike your other examples of us moving things to less-official names, thie one is part of a "set" of all the normal attack names. Currently (as of SSBU officializing "tilt"), we use official names for 21 of the 28 moves (see [[:Template:Attacks]]), and of the non-official ones 3 have no known official English term to use instead, so we're 84% official. The idea of decreasing this percentage, and increasing the inconsistency, feels wrong. (In fact I wouldn't straight-up oppose moving "forward tilt" and "forward smash" to "side tilt" and "side smash", although that would cause even more disruption than this would and thus is still quite bad, and "pummel" and "grab aerial" have to stay regardless to avoid the confusion of official terms calling them the same thing.)
# We have never seriously considered moving "Reflector (Fox)" to "Shine", or "Vegetable" to "Turnip", even though it's obvious that the fan-preferred terms far eclipse the official names in usage. How close are "normal attack names" to "individual special move names" in terms of "unofficial names should never win just for being popular"? (Although admittedly the naming of some Final Smashes being a debate rather than a clear-cut case shows even this isn't as tight as it probably should be.)
Overall I '''oppose''' because I don't think the change will buy us anything compared to the effort required. Remember, normal attack names are tightly integrated with thousands of pages, templates, and images, and while a bot can do some of the work, editors still have to set it up and check all that it does afterward. Compare to the payoff - "jab" will be the page instead of the redirect? Tons of articles use "jab" in the text anyway and it's no big deal. You put "smashwiki jab" or "smash bros jab" into Google and it hands you this page anyway. I'm just not seeing the reward for such a disruptive change. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Indescribable 08:07, January 15, 2021 (EST)
:I strongly, ''strongly'' '''support'''. The use of "neutral attack" feels like an egregious failure to meld with the greater community's language. As for Toomai's counterarguments:
:# I fail to see why any weight is being placed on this percentage of official attack names. There is no policy that dictates this is a percentage that ought to be kept high; contrarily, the existence of SW:OFFICIAL renders any sort of "officialism check" entirely arbitrary and unnecessary. SW:OFFICIAL exists because what should be kept consistent for a wiki intended to be a community resource is not the use of official terms, but of widely-used ones. In trying to maintain a precedent for the use of official terms despite popular alternatives, inconsistency is ''introduced'' to the wiki, not solved. Jab is used frequently on this wiki by virtue of being the simpler and wider-understood term. Instead of treating this like an inevitable slippage into the breaking of policy, we should correct the policy itself.<br><br>To argue that a move to "jab" would cause inconsistency is flawed on two fronts: if the goal here is to stay consistent ''with official content'', we're in violation of SW:OFFICIAL by trying to supplant a simple and pervasively-used term with its rarer, more unwieldy official counterpart; if the goal is to stay consistent ''within the wiki's usage of the term'', we are ''already'' failing, and it's far more preferable to correct this error by normalizing the community term.
:# This second point is not chiefly an issue with the current argument, but of the potential to establish a precedent for messy special move name changing arguments down the line. I do not believe this will be the case, as not all official terms are created equal.<br><br>Consider that Reflector and Turnip are special moves, even the most common of which are only used by single-digit numbers of characters, and all of which are rigorously defined and named through in-game move lists, trophies, etc. Compare that to jabs – every single character who has ever been in Smash has had a jab, but official names for the term are, compared to special moves, often hidden within more obscure resources. This results in generally increased relevance of jabs as a discussable concept with regards to the series at large than any single special move. Furthermore, while that combination of circumstances is not the only one that facilitates the creation of fanmade terms, it ''does'' change the reason for which the terms are created and the purpose they fulfill due to a comparative dearth of official references to "neutral attack" despite its status as an official term. The official use of "neutral attack" is such a rarity that I believe the advent of "jab" was more brought about by the perceived need to fill a lexical gap than as an alternative to a known, existing term. I believe this is a contributing factor to jab having become such a widely-used term, and is simultaneously grounds to replace "neutral attack" with "jab", but ''not'' to, for instance, replace "Reflector" with "shine".
:# As a final point, I'd argue that the result of this move ''will'' be beneficial enough to justify the work involved. Consider if, as of the Smash 4 era, we had decided to abide by officialism and refer to tilts as strongs throughout the wiki. Although searching "forward tilt" would still lead you to the page about the concept, "strong" remaining as the prevailing term would create an unnecessary and uncomfortable schism between common speech and wiki presentation, resulting in second-guessing, potential inconsistency of style, and in severe cases a hindrance in the flow of information and learning. The current case with jab/neutral attack is analogous to this scenario, and it's one worth correcting even if it takes a while – and even then, if we have a lot of people making coordinated edits assisted by bots, the switch and all its repercussions could be done and dealt with in a matter of mere days.
:All this considered, I do not believe there is a justifiable reason to maintain the use of such a term under the circumstances. [[File:Nymbaresigicon.png]] [[User:Nymbare|<span style="color:#00BFFF">Nymbare</span>]] [[User talk:Nymbare|<span style="color:#0066FF">and his talk</span>]] 19:43, January 15, 2021 (EST)
:'''Oppose''', I find myself concurring with Toomai’s comment above. [[User:Black Vulpine|<span style="color: black;">'''Black Vulpine'''</span>]] of the [[User talk:Black Vulpine|🦊'''Furry Nation'''🐺]]. [[Special:Contributions/Black Vulpine|<span style="color: #CC5500">'''Furries make the internets go! :3'''</span>]] 20:33, January 15, 2021 (EST)

'''Support''' I don't agree with Toomai's reasoning at all. Firstly, the argument you mentioned about consistency with the official names does not apply here. It just so happens that most of the official attack names also happen to be the most commonly used names by the community. As for things like "side smash" vs "forward smash", it's not our fault that the community sometimes arbitrarily decides on the names of moves, and "neutral attack" is one of the least commonly used official names compared to the unofficial term. In addition, I don't think that "it's too much effort to do it" is a good argument. The disparity between SmashWiki's usage of "neutral attack" vs the community's usage of "jab" is not going to get any better. People are going to keep writing articles with "neutral attack" in them, which is only going to make the wiki look further out of date/out of touch, so the best time to fix things is now. We've had cases like this before, where we change the wiki's usage of a widespread term. Usually what happens is that the old phrase gradually gets phased out of the wiki's article text (where a seasoned editor might stumble upon the term "neutral attack" while editing and then change it to "jab" out of convenience). I don't see anything different happening here, and I don't think the issue is as big as you are making it out to be. '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 22:22, January 15, 2021 (EST)

I '''Oppose''' the change, [[File:ThegameandwatchIcon2.png|20px]] [[User:Thegameandwatch|<span style=" color: Green;">'''Thegameandwatch'''</span>]] [[File:Thegameandwatch signature icon.png|20px]] [[User talk:Thegameandwatch|''<span style="color: blue;">The Nerd </span>'']] 05:00, January 16, 2021 (EST)

I have realized an additional reason (which I sensed before but couldn't articulate) that I believe this rename is a poor idea. Every other attack has always been named after the ''input'' (the one exception being "pummel", for a variety of reasons). Even the character-unique attacks like Piranha Plant's "footstooled attack" and Terry's "dodge attack" fit this pattern. Renaming "neutral attack" to "jab" would break this standard (in not exactly a minor way, since it's always the first in attack lists) and create a new exception. I believe this is enough justification to not automatically follow the "use common fan names" guideline.

I also ask this: Why is "jab" being treated as a ''different term'' entirely, rather than as a ''shorthand''? Shorthands are not necessarily abbreviations of the root (usually yes, but not always). [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The SMASH-GINEER 17:00, January 16, 2021 (EST)
:It should not be based on what you think is correct, it should be based on what the community considers correct, regardless of how uneducated/misinformed the majority of the fanbase is. And "jab" is not a shorthand for "neutral attack" the same way something like "fair" is for "forward aerial". '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 17:04, January 16, 2021 (EST)
::If you think this is a question of "correct", than answer this: Does the community actually believe that "jab" is correct? Or are they just using it because it's easier to type/say than "neutral attack" (thus, a shorthand)? [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Incomprehensible 18:52, January 17, 2021 (EST)
:::Jab is definitely not the shorthand form of neutral attack, it came around because it's popularly used to describe these kinds of attacks in other fighting games, and happened to stick in Smash. It's not like Smash players looked on the official website and said "Neutral attack is too complicated, let's abbreviate it as 'jab' for short." The shorthand form of neutral attack is probably closer to "AAA" or “neutral A”. '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 22:42, January 17, 2021 (EST)
::::Okay so this is not a case of "we'll call it X because Y is bad", or "we'll call it X because we don't know any better", but rather "we'll call it X because we like X". I think this is an important distinction: the only reason people use the alternate term is because people use the alternate term. There's no additional reason such as "the official term wasn't known until too late" (like "ukemi" vs. "tech", or "attribute" vs. "effect"), "the official term is too unconventional" (like "prat fall" vs. "trip", or "Super Smash Bros. for 3DS and Wii U" vs. "Super Smash Bros. 4"), or "the official term is actively confusing" (like "grab attack" vs. "pummel" and "grab aerial", or "hitstun" vs "hitlag"). Because of this, I think the "it's more popular" argument is a fair bit weaker. This is why, in combination with the unique circumstance that this is not a ''lone'' term (as it resides in the pattern of naming attacks after inputs), I don't think we should rename it. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Zesty 07:53, January 19, 2021 (EST)
:::::It is not the wiki's job to actively question why people use a certain term over the other. In addition, just because the official name for a term was discovered too late, doesn't mean people will automatically switch to using it. Do you think that people would really call it "ukemi" over "tech" if they knew it was called that from the start?
:::::Frankly I don't understand why you're so insistent on preserving the page title for a term that's used at least 100 times less than the more commonly used name, for reasons that fail to transcend SW:OFFICIAL. Our policies state that we should use the community's name as the title, not "unofficial title if the official name is too weird/complicated/etc." If we changed every single mention of "neutral attack" to "jab" on SmashWiki, I believe that the articles would become more readable and accessible to the community, by replacing an archaic term with one that everyone knows. '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 14:39, January 19, 2021 (EST)
::::::The spirit of SW:OFFICIAL is that we should not be forced to use official terms simply because they are official. I am demonstrating that there is reason that isn't "it's official" to keep "neutral attack" as the name - that being it is not a ''lone'' term, but part of a larger ''system'' of terms that is reasonably formulaic and fairly self-consistent. People can keep using "jab" as a shorthand in article text, it's no more confusing than shorthands like "fair". (Yes, things can be shorthands even if they don't appear related, like "zair" for "grab aerial", or "Bolts" for the "Tampa Bay Lightning" hockey team. Language is weird sometimes.)
::::::And of course, SW:OFFICIAL only says that "the fan term ''may'' be chosen instead" "on a case-by-case basis" (emphasis added). People seem to be under the impression that we have to make this move because there are numbers of term popularity. But even if we followed the letter of the policy rather than the spirit, that is not the case. There is reason beyond what is and isn't official to not change this. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Different 00:14, January 20, 2021 (EST)
:::::::The examples of "jab" and "fair" you listed are not the same. "Jab" is not a shorthand for "neutral attack." Using the term "fair" or "Bolts" in an article sounds extremely casual and perhaps not like formal encyclopedic speech, while using "jab" instead of "neutral attack" sounds encyclopedic in any context. In addition, there is no formulaic "system" in place at all with regards to the names of these articles, unlike what you think. Every move name other than "neutral attack" is named only after the community's most commonly used name (with the exception of maybe "get up attack" over "floor attack," though that might be a move for a later date). The tilt attacks were officially named "strong attacks" until Ultimate, yet the pages were named as "forward tilt" etc. for years, so our article titles clearly aren't based on what's official. The moves "forward smash" and "side special" are performed the same way with the control stick, yet one is called "forward" and the other is called "side," proving there really is no rhyme or reason when it comes to naming these pages.
:::::::And SW:OFFICIAL states "Prioritize using official names unless a different name is much more widely used." And the "spirit" of SW:OFFICIAL has always been that the widespread and popular community name should be used over the obscure official name. Do you really not think that a 100 times greater usage of the unofficial term applies here? '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 13:13, January 20, 2021 (EST)
::::::::You missed the point of how moves are systematically named after their ''inputs''. "Jab" and "strong side" are not inputs, while "neutral attack" and "forward tilt" are. There is indeed some inconsistency between "forward" and "side", but there's only a single exception (side special) so it's not all that bad, and as stated above I am open to fixing it (although not ''enthused'' for it).
::::::::In addition, "neutral attack" is far from an "obscure" name. It's not like "prat fall" or "impact stall", where the first reaction to using it is probably "what?". People just don't commonly use it because it takes a lot of effort to type out compared to "nair" or such, and there's not really a better way to abbreviate it. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Cloronic 20:46, January 20, 2021 (EST)
:::::::::What makes you so sure that people only use "jab" because "neutral attack" is so hard to spell out? By your logic, if shorter name = abbreviation, does that mean "tripping" is a shorthand of "prat falling", and we should rename that article title too? I don't know what your definition of "obscure" is, but the "proper" name being used at least 100 times more than the common name definitely seems pretty "obscure" to me.
:::::::::I am fully aware of the way that the moves are named. But who in this case is "systematically naming" everything? The "strong attacks" have been official names of the moves since the beginning of the series, and those have nothing to do with the controller inputs. I'd argue that "smash attack" doesn't either, because you perform those by "tapping" the control stick (quoted from the article). 
:::::::::So who is doing the systematic naming here? It's definitely not Nintendo or Sakurai, and it sure isn't the community either. This naming system is entirely based off of people on SmashWiki who make up a tiny fraction of the Smash community as a whole. Your insistence on keeping this ideal system of naming articles is just an example of SmashWiki trying to police the community's terminology, rather than the other way around. Usage of the term "neutral attack" would be practically nonexistent if it weren't for SmashWiki. SmashWiki is a community based wiki, and I don't understand why you're so stubborn on trying to create a division between SmashWiki and the community all just to perfect everything up to what *you personally* think is correct. '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 21:58, January 20, 2021 (EST)
I was initially going to say "well, the page should at least be 'jab attack' if we're going to move it", but then I remembered that we name these pages after their control stick inputs, not just "what the community calls them", and we most definitely should '''''not''''' move "neutral special" and "neutral aerial" to "jab special" and "jab aerial". Honestly I think having this incongruency would be a bigger sin than not naming every page after what the community calls them, especially when sometimes they don't know any better. And if that's really the prime reason to move... well isn't that the entire fucking point of the Wiki? To allow people in the community to inform others? And it's not like anybody would be confused from calling it a "neutral attack": it's not like "ukemi" which requires Japanese or "strong attack" which would probably have been a nightmare if not for the policy; especially with "neutral special" and "neutral air" I think readers will get the idea really quick (the only stickler is probably "forward smash", which I've called "side smash" my whole life but that's another discussion). Just because we have a policy saying we don't always name pages after what the games call them doesn't mean that we have to opt for more informal and more incongruous terminology, especially when that's far from the best option (like "regular A" or "side B" or "Z attack"). Those informal terms serve as redirects ''for a reason''.<br>So yeah, I '''oppose''' moving the page to jab. - [[User:EndGenuity|EndGenuity]] ([[User talk:EndGenuity|talk]]) 21:09, January 20, 2021 (EST)
:Sure our job is to educate people, but that doesn't mean trying to shoehorn readers into correcting something that was never incorrect in the first place. You can still inform readers with a line at the top of the page saying that the move is officially called "neutral attack." The word "jab" already appears four times as much as "neutral attack" on the page itself. '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 21:58, January 20, 2021 (EST)
'''Oppose''' Toomai made a good point about the page being named after the input. Even though Jab is the more common name by the community, its meaning can be somewhat vague compared to the other move pages, since jab doesn't give its input in its name. Also, the word jab has real world applications that conflict with what the community calls it; for example, the type of punch in Little Mac's forward tilt is called a jab in real life, leading to the possibility that some people will think this is a style of attack a la sex kick. [[Special:Contributions/72.219.72.215|72.219.72.215]] 21:22, January 20, 2021 (EST)
:SmashWiki already has pages like [[Counter]] with a disambiguation line at the top of the page that redirects to the general type of attack. '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 21:58, January 20, 2021 (EST)

The phrase "jab" appears on the article 95 times, while "neutral attack" only appears on the article 20 times. Meanwhile the terms "f-tilt, "f-smash," and "fair" appear a grand total of 3 times altogether across their respective articles. Even if you discount all the usages of "rapid jab," there is no other move article with such a high usage of the supposedly shorthand term. This suggests that "jab" is not just a shorthand but an alternative name for "neutral attack." If "jab" really is just a shorthand for, neutral attack, how come SmashWiki editors aren't actively avoiding its usage like they are for the shorthand terms on the other move articles?
<br> In addition, I do not see the benefit of having one term be the article title, but another term be used far more often throughout the article. This only serves to confuse readers and decrease the page's cohesiveness. If you are in favor of keeping this article name as-is, would you also want to change every instance of the word "jab" to "neutral attack" throughout the article (therefore forcing SmashWiki editors to use a term that they don't prefer)? '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 03:08, January 22, 2021 (EST)
:Yes, because a [https://www.ssbwiki.com/index.php?title=Jab&redirect=no link] that [[Jab|redirects to the related page]] is the most difficult thing one can make on a wiki... [[User:Black Vulpine|<span style="color: black;">'''Black Vulpine'''</span>]] of the [[User talk:Black Vulpine|🦊'''Furry Nation'''🐺]]. [[Special:Contributions/Black Vulpine|<span style="color: #CC5500">'''Furries make the internets go! :3'''</span>]] 03:19, January 22, 2021 (EST)
::Hmm, actually, keeping that aforementioned redirect while keeping the page named as it is now would make much more sense. Since we already have the Jab redirect, people can already find this page easily enough. [[User:Black Vulpine|<span style="color: black;">'''Black Vulpine'''</span>]] of the [[User talk:Black Vulpine|🦊'''Furry Nation'''🐺]]. [[Special:Contributions/Black Vulpine|<span style="color: #CC5500">'''Furries make the internets go! :3'''</span>]] 16:49, January 22, 2021 (EST)
:::If the reader is going to spend most of the article reading it as "jab," why not just move tje article title to "jab" in the first place? '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 03:21, January 24, 2021 (EST)
::::Because that would break consistency with [[Tilt attack]], [[Smash attack]], and [[Aerial attack]]. [[User:Black Vulpine|<span style="color: black;">'''Black Vulpine'''</span>]] of the [[User talk:Black Vulpine|🦊'''Furry Nation'''🐺]]. [[Special:Contributions/Black Vulpine|<span style="color: #CC5500">'''Furries make the internets go! :3'''</span>]] 03:42, January 24, 2021 (EST)
::::"The article is currently not using its own title correctly" is an easily-fixable problem that should not affect whether the page is moved. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Wacko 11:46, January 24, 2021 (EST)
:::::So you're in favor of forcing SmashWiki editors to use a terminology that they overwhelming don't prefer? '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 00:32, January 26, 2021 (EST)
::::::Don't try to play the emotional blackmail card with me. There is a redirect, and it's very easy to use. Heck, maybe we could even add "Also known as a '''jab'''" to the leading paragraph. Oh wait, it is already there. But seriously, the fact that renaming this article will break consistency with others is more than enough reason to not move. [[User:Black Vulpine|<span style="color: black;">'''Black Vulpine'''</span>]] of the [[User talk:Black Vulpine|🦊'''Furry Nation'''🐺]]. [[Special:Contributions/Black Vulpine|<span style="color: #CC5500">'''Furries make the internets go! :3'''</span>]] 00:38, January 26, 2021 (EST)
:::::::What does emotional blackmail have to do with anything here? I am simply asking questions, and you should be prepared to answer them. I could reverse the situation and say that we should just have a redirect and say "also known as "neutral attack"" in the leading paragraph too.
:::::::Honestly, seeing a bunch of users ignoring the Smash community's overwhelming usage of a term due to their own personal preferences comes off as incredibly selfish to me. SmashWiki already has a hard enough time recruiting editors/maintaining connections with the greater Smash community, and people like you trying to preserve archaic and obscure vocabulary in the wiki's phrasebook certainly does not help. I still do not understand why you think that "consistency" is more important than the wants and needs of the thousands of readers who come across these articles? Who do you think SmashWiki is originally made for: the reader, or yourself? '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 03:10, January 28, 2021 (EST)
:::::::I would agree with you on consistency if “neutral attack” was also a widely used term amongst the community. But considering how “neutral attack” is virtually nonexistent outside of SmashWiki, I don’t see how the consistency argument can be a priority here. '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 03:26, January 28, 2021 (EST)

Pretty much in agreement with Toomai's points here. '''Oppose'''. [[User:Miles of SmashWiki|<font color="dodgerblue"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">'''Miles''']] <font color="silver">([[User talk:Miles of SmashWiki|<font color="silver">talk]])</font></font></span></font> 03:29, January 28, 2021 (EST)

'''Oppose'''. I can say that "Neutral attack" is a common term used to describe the most simplest attack of a fighter. While this is true, the term "jab" defines it as a simple punch. While a majority of characters do that, some characters such as King Dedede and Marth use their weapons instead of a punch. So I don't believe that this page should be moved to "jab" and preferable to keep its title to "Neutral attack". [[User:Invisible Star|Invisible Star]] ([[User talk:Invisible Star|talk]]) 01:21, January 30, 2021 (EST)
:In the Smash community the term "jab" is used to describe all neutral attacks regardless if the character uses a punch or not (Everyone still calls it "Marth's jab" even if it's a sword swing). And if "neutral attack" is a common term, what do you make of the statistics provided at the top of the thread that show that "jab" is used at least 100 times more frequently on all platforms outside of SmashWiki? '''[[User:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Awesome</span>]] [[User talk:Ac2k|<span style="color: red;">Cardinal 2000</span>]]''' 03:01, January 30, 2021 (EST)
::''"What does emotional blackmail have to do with anything here? I am simply asking questions, and you should be prepared to answer them."''<br>What question? You (come off as) very sardonically asking if I prefer forcing people to use the less common term, when, regardless of whether this page is renamed or not, they can very easily use either term, either when linking to this article, or writing in this article. It shouldn't be that big of a deal, and yet your tone very strikingly comes off as someone who's trying to cry out victimisation. Now, you can tell me that's not at all what your intentions are, and maybe that's true, but I personally find this entire move proposal quite frivolous, and your arguments, which I think carry no weight whatsoever for or against this proposal, are not helping. [[User:Black Vulpine|<span style="color: black;">'''Black Vulpine'''</span>]] of the [[User talk:Black Vulpine|🦊'''Furry Nation'''🐺]]. [[Special:Contributions/Black Vulpine|<span style="color: #CC5500">'''Furries make the internets go! :3'''</span>]] 03:07, January 30, 2021 (EST)
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