Forum:Merging problems

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There are a few concerns I have now that wikis have merged. Specifically:

1. Pages dedicated to users, Smashers, that aren't user pages. Why do users need 2 pages about themselves? They don't. How do these pages have use to casual gamers? They don't. There are over 1300 of these Smasher articles. Thats, what, a third of all articles? These need to be moved to user pages, crammed into a small group of articles or deleted. Right?

2. Templates. You Smash Wikians really like your templates. Some of these are necessary, others, not so much. For example every character has its own special moves template while SSB Wiki has one nifty one that you plug in the character and its moves. So we need to figure out which templates to keep and which to toss. We also need a limit of how many templates we use per page because it really gets ugly when you have 3 big ones stacked.

3. Main Page. No offense but its boring. We need to merge our main pages ASAP. SSB Wiki has had a featured media and featured article section for over a month and now its gone. We need our FAs since they get sent to Gamefaqs and whatnot.

4. We had a launch center that had a lot of effort put in it and I was hoping to display it on the main Page too since Brawl's just a week away. And also I wondered if anyone wanted to make a new logo or have a vote of what logo was preferred, Smash Wiki's or SSB Wiki's.

Any comment, suggestions or resolutions? Bonko24 18:41, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

I THINK I have a resolution, atleast to the templates. I know we who come from SmashWiki loves templates, yea... But once, I created templates for each series, one for each Smash game. I had everything in it. Characters, moves, stage locations, stages, items, Poké Ball-Pokémon, Assist Trophies, trophies, stickers and background characters. Yea... but then the moves, Poké Ball-Pokémon, trophies, stickers and background characters disappeard. A little bit later, the three (about each game) started to merg into one, and other ones was created about the special moves. If we could continue to merge the three templates (about each game) into one, and include the Poké Ball-Pokémon aswell as the moves, it would save us, like, hundreds of unnecesary templates.

BTW, could you delete the articles about stages in SmashWiki.Merge/? All information is now written on the 'real' ones, and that would ALSO save us many bites.King M 20:34, 1 March 2008 (UTC)King M (talk•contribs•logs) March, 1 2008 21:32 (GMT +01)

Yes, I agree, the articles on users that are in the main namespace should be moved off. Logan

Smasher articles are a touchy subject. I've been of the opinion that there were probably too many on SmashWiki, but that's not to say it would be fair or proper to remove all of them (and I'm sure some would disagree with my opinion anyway). I think even Wikipedia has an article or two about some important Smash Bros. players, so it would seem very improper if we were to simply remove all articles about people. It's important to remember that, while user pages are indeed about people, they're really better suited when they're kept to being about people in terms of their wiki usage, and not also about why they might be important to the Smash Bros. community (which should most certainly be within the scope of this wiki). That's not to say we can't tell people who truly don't need a Smasher page of their own that they can't just post it on their user page instead, but that can't be a hard and fast rule either. --Kirby King 21:08, 1 March 2008 (UTC)