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==Article titles== | ==Article titles== | ||
*Titles should be singular, not plural. | *Titles should be singular, not plural. | ||
**Example: '''Item''' instead of '''Items''' | **Example: '''Item''' instead of '''Items''' | ||
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**Example: '''Fox McCloud''' instead of '''Fox''' | **Example: '''Fox McCloud''' instead of '''Fox''' | ||
**Example: '''Fox (SSBB)''' instead of '''Fox McCloud (SSBB)'''. | **Example: '''Fox (SSBB)''' instead of '''Fox McCloud (SSBB)'''. | ||
**Exception: Should a character be | **Exception: Should a playable character be included in ''Smash'' that has the same in-game name as another character (and isn't an alternate costume), their fighter article can be named something else to differentiate the characters. | ||
*For tournaments, an article on the tournament series overall should end with '''(series)'''. For example, an article on the tournament series "The Big House" belongs on [[Tournament:The Big House (series)]], while the article on the first tournament in the series, also called "The Big House," belongs on [[Tournament:The Big House]]. | *For tournaments, an article on the tournament series overall should end with '''(series)'''. For example, an article on the tournament series "The Big House" belongs on [[Tournament:The Big House (series)]], while the article on the first tournament in the series, also called "The Big House," belongs on [[Tournament:The Big House]]. | ||
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==Writing style== | ==Writing style== | ||
*Do not make edits by copying text directly from other sources. This is plagiarism, which hurts the credibility of both us and the source. Edits should not appear as if someone other than the editor wrote them. | |||
*Style of writing should be semiformal, with no silly remarks or slang. | *Style of writing should be semiformal, with no silly remarks or slang. | ||
*Initials and abbreviations should not be used instead of the proper name within articles. A shortened name can be acceptable, however, if the full name was already used in the article or section. For the original ''Super Smash Bros.'', ''SSB'', ''SSB64'', and ''Smash 64'' are all acceptable shortened names. When referring to ''Super Smash for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS'' collectively, ''SSB4'' and ''Smash 4'' are acceptable abbreviations. | *Initials and abbreviations should not be used instead of the proper name within articles. A shortened name can be acceptable, however, if the full name was already used in the article or section. For the original ''Super Smash Bros.'', ''SSB'', ''SSB64'', and ''Smash 64'' are all acceptable shortened names. When referring to ''Super Smash for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS'' collectively, ''SSB4'' and ''Smash 4'' are acceptable abbreviations. | ||
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**Games should be ordered by release date. Non-Smash Bros. events and modded games go at the end. | **Games should be ordered by release date. Non-Smash Bros. events and modded games go at the end. | ||
**Singles should be placed before doubles. | **Singles should be placed before doubles. | ||
*When reporting which characters a player used in a tournament, it is standard to not list every character the player chose over the tournament, but only list characters that were used to win a game in a won set. Additionally, characters used by high-placing players in early pool matches should generally be ignored, as the massive skill gaps that | *The amount of placings expected to be documented within any bracket on a tournament page will vary depending on the size and skill depth of the tournament. There are no hard rules to this, but generally, any local level event should have at least the top 8 listed, a smaller regional should have at least the top 16 listed, a larger regional should have at least the top 32 listed, a superregional should have at least the top 48 listed, a major should have at least the top 64 listed, and a supermajor should have at least the top 96 or even top 128 listed. Any tournament with too few results reported for its level should be tagged with {{t|results}}. | ||
*When ordering players who are tied, the | **On another note, there is no such thing as "too much results" on any tournament page, SmashWiki does not have a limit to how deeply a tournament's results can be documented on the wiki. In fact, the wiki should ideally have the complete results documented, as the online source for the tournament's results may not always be available in the future if a reader wants to see more of the results than what SmashWiki documents (as the many ''Brawl'' tournaments whose results were permanently lost when [[AllisBrawl]] went down can attest to). SmashWiki just does not expect any editor to extensively document results beyond a high enough cutoff, given the increasingly high amount of effort it requires to write down results with each additional placing, which would become monumental with some of the biggest supermajors that have had thousands of entrants. If an editor does want to document especially deeply into a tournament's results or even the entire tournament, the only caveat is that they should stop automatically linking players who do not have an article and will likely not merit an article in the near future, so as to not fill [[wanted pages]] with players who should not have Smasher articles. Additionally, if a tournament's results table were to get excessively large, its complete results table should be placed on a subpage, while the main page has a table with the top 64 or so listed. | ||
*When reporting which characters a player used in a tournament, it is standard to not list every character the player chose over the tournament, but only list characters that were used to win a game in a won set, so as to not mislead which characters were actually responsible for the player's placing. Additionally, characters used by high-placing players in early pool matches should generally be ignored, as the massive skill gaps that often occur in these matches mean top and even high level players will typically win these matches regardless of their effort, and so a character they may have [[sandbagging|sandbagged]] with in these matches does not truly reflect the characters that legitimately contributed to their final placing. | |||
*When listing a [[Template:Flag|flag]] next to a player, it should not be strictly based on their birth country nor where they have official citizenship, but rather their country of permanent residence at the time the tournament took place. For example, {{Sm|ZeRo}} is from [[Chile]], but immigrated to the [[United States]] by the end of 2013, so all tournament results from before 2014 should have him listed with the Chilean flag, but all tournaments after that point should use the American flag for him in their results instead. In a more extreme example, {{Sm|Hungrybox}} was born in [[Argentina]], but has resided in the United States for most of his life, including for his entire ''Smash'' career, and thus all of his results on the wiki should have him listed with the American flag rather than the Argentine flag, despite him not becoming an American citizen until 2017. | |||
**Conversely, if a player is only living in another country on a short term temporary basis, such as on a visitor visa or for a short university stint, their flag should not be changed. | |||
**In cases of long term dual-residencies, such as when a player is living in another country to attend higher education, the flags from both their countries of residence should be listed. | |||
*When ordering players who are tied, it does not matter how they are ordered, but for ease of reference with the tournament source, it should be as given in the tournament's official results page. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||