Forum:Add an ongoing events section to the News template

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This discussion is in regards to a proposed change on SmashWiki. The discussion must first meet with a consensus before it is implemented.

I've recently been thinking about potentially adding an ongoing/current events section to the News template in similar vein to Wikipedia's. This section would essentially cover any significant events within the Smash community such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and any notable tournaments. I have created a mockup of what I think it should look like below:

Ongoing events: COVID-19 pandemic, The Big House 9, Smash 'N' Splash 5

As you might already be able to tell, this would go under the "Latest version" section in the News template. Obviously on the mainpage it'd look a lot smaller though. This section would need to be manually edited every time a new tournament is ongoing or ends. Thoughts? Señor Mexicano (talk) 19:02, July 16, 2020 (EDT)

Oppose

1. Tournaments usually only last a few days, yea? Having to constantly change this for small things would be a pain in the ass. There's also the fact that we already report on major tournaments in the news template after the fact. Aidan, the Rurouni 19:19, July 16, 2020 (EDT)
2. Tournaments rarely last long enough for this to be particularly worthwhile, and the pandemic stuff is obvious enough without further drawing attention to it. Miles (talk) 19:21, July 16, 2020 (EDT)
3. Tournaments are usually short, I personally don't see a point in reporting them while they're ongoing and then immediately change it probably only a day or so afterwards. Omegα Toαd 20:05, July 16, 2020 (EDT)
4. Yeah, those people really sum up my concerns about this as tourneys normally last around 1 hour to 2 days. I widely oppose this for the reasons the three people said S3AHAWK (talk) 20:19, July 16, 2020 (EDT)

Neutral

1. I like the idea since it makes it easier to track which tournaments are ongoing (so that people don't forget to update them), but in my opinion it would be more helpful if it would automatically update whenever the current events category is changed so we don't have to manually update it each time. CookiesCreme 19:35, July 16, 2020 (EDT)

   I thought about something like this initially, but to my knowledge I don't think it's possible to create a list from a category? I might be wrong, but if it is able to be done then this would be the way to do it. Señor Mexicano (talk) 20:01, July 16, 2020 (EDT)