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::- Do not capitalize any letters in the country name. This field defines which flag will be displayed beside the location field in the table and unfortunately must be typed in lower-case letters in order to reference the correct filename. The wiki will automatically capitalize the initial letter, but countries with more than one word will not reference properly if the second word is capitalized. | ::- Do not capitalize any letters in the country name. This field defines which flag will be displayed beside the location field in the table and unfortunately must be typed in lower-case letters in order to reference the correct filename. The wiki will automatically capitalize the initial letter, but countries with more than one word will not reference properly if the second word is capitalized. | ||
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====Introductions==== | |||
Smasher articles should generally begin with the individual's name in '''bold''', a reference to their country of origin as well as a concise, succinct summary of their role in the smash community. | |||
Good examples: | |||
*[[AOB]] | |||
*[[DireVulcan]] | |||
*[[Aphelion]] | |||
*[[Chu Dat]] | |||
'''What not to include in an introduction:''' | |||
*Detailed tournament results - these belong in their own section. | |||
*External links - Although there may be some exceptions to this rule I'm not thinking of off the top of my head, there is no need to be linking outside of SmashWiki within the introduction of a smasher article (ie. SWF profiles, myspace, videos, etc.) | |||
*Inside jokes - Many people like to confuse SmashWiki with some sort of social networking community and treat their own smasher articles as personal profiles, rather than informative encyclopedic content. Any amusing nicknames, personality traits, catchphrases, favourite this, favourite that, etc. should all be kept out of the introduction (and, in fact, the entire article for that matter). | |||
== Guidelines == | == Guidelines == | ||
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The tournaments that '''do not''' count are the ones that are generally held at a toy store, fair ground, exhibition, etc. by some company who picks the competitors out of the crowd and in the end they give away a Nintendo T-shirt to the winner of a free-for-all bracket with items on. | The tournaments that '''do not''' count are the ones that are generally held at a toy store, fair ground, exhibition, etc. by some company who picks the competitors out of the crowd and in the end they give away a Nintendo T-shirt to the winner of a free-for-all bracket with items on. | ||
=== SmashWiki is not a personal profile === | |||
As mentioned before, the community-oriented nature of SmashWiki quite often leads people to believe that smasher articles are a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service social networking] and that each is a comprehensive personality profile. In actuality, smasher articles are a form of special interest biography, only focusing on those elements that are relevant to the smash community. | |||
What exactly is "relevant" is open to some interpretation, however the focus of the article should always come back to smash one way or another. Other biographical information can be included <u>in addition</u> to smash-related content, though use your judgment in ensuring that it still reads like a smash story rather than a life story. | |||
Also, do not include any '''contact information''' in yours, or anyone else's, smasher article. Once again, this isn't a personal profile and there's no need to have MSN addresses and AOL names taking up a bunch of space at the bottom of the article. If I wanted to get ahold of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Cruz Penelope Cruz], I wouldn't go to Wikipedia looking for her phone number. The same applies to SmashWiki and [[Ken]]. | |||
It is recommend that you keep all contact information on your own [[User:Randall00|user page]] instead of within the smasher article itself. In fact, there is even a [[Template:Contact]] to make it that much simpler. | |||
[[Category:Project|Smasher Project]] | [[Category:Project|Smasher Project]] | ||