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Discussion
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Region Pages
M3D's recent lists of categories/tournaments by region and state give me an idea. We can easily create a page for each major area (maybe six or seven in all) and list on that page notable players, recurring tournaments (only recurring) and crews. Give me the go ahead, and I'll contact M3D and he and I can get started on it. -- Bean 01:06, February 27, 2007 (GMT)
- You'll hear no objections from me. Project Smasher is my favourite SmashWiki game of them all! -- Randall00 03:35, February 27, 2007 (GMT)
- I'd like to go ahead and start on this. I'll create a category called Category:Smash Communities which will hold a collection of pages of notable smash regions, such as the San Jose Area and the Sacramento Area (just local examples). A player searching for people in his area can look to that page which will contain lists of notable Smashers and crews in that region. I'll start work tonight, or someone else can begin creating pages for their regions. -- Bean 01:46, March 21, 2007 (GMT)
Shh...
Whenever I go to www.smashwiki.com, it just says "Nothing to see here." Why? Shouldn't it just redirctto the main page? Like, what's up with that? Did I miss something? - Brawlmatt202 19:57, March 2, 2007 (GMT)
- This is because we haven't officially "launched" yet. When we do (which I know I keep saying will be soon, but trust me, there's a reason) we'll make it a redirect. --Kirby King 20:06, March 2, 2007 (GMT)
- Oh, okay. I was just wondering. - Brawlmatt202 06:22, March 3, 2007 (GMT)
Problem with a redirection
A member of my Smash crew goes by the name 'Green', but he can't add a page about himself because Green redirects to Green Shell. What should I do? Trig. 14:20, March 4, 2007 (CST)
- The page can be named Green (smasher). You see, searching for shell doesn't work. That's why green and red redirects to the shell articles. When that's fixed, the page can be moved to Green. – Smiddle ( Talk • Conts ) 20:31, March 4, 2007 (GMT)
- Ok, I think I might have done something wrong because now Green redirects to Green (Smasher) instead of Green Shell.
- That's weird here it says it redirects to Green Shell, but clicking a the link or writing 'green' in the search box links to Green (smasher). Maybe that's related to the shell issue ... ? – Smiddle ( Talk • Conts ) 20:42, March 4, 2007 (GMT)
Red Shell
Every time I try to go to the Red Shell page, I ke4ep getting this:
Forbidden You don't have permission to access /wiki/Red_Shell on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
What's up with that? - Brawlmatt202 14:25, March 5, 2007 (GMT)
- Any URL with the word "shell" doesn't work. The devious powers-that-be are playing with our souls!! ....err, rather, we haven't found any rhyme or reason to why the shell glitch occurs, but for the meantime we redirect from "red" or "green." – MaskedMarth (t c) 16:14, March 5, 2007 (GMT)
Well, Green redirects to Green (smasher), even if says it redirects to Green Shell... see #Problem with a redirection.– Smiddle ( Talk • Conts ) 17:55, March 5, 2007 (GMT)
Congratulations
Hey guys, might want to read this: http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=98564 ;) --Kirby King 05:02, March 6, 2007 (GMT)
- Sweet! This is even more reason to get to work though. Now that more people are reading these articles, we'd better make them as great as possible. – MaskedMarth (t c) 04:25, March 7, 2007 (GMT)
- w00t you guys are all amazing. Congrats on making this happen KK!! - Gideon 05:12, March 7, 2007 (GMT)
In dire need of uniformity
I notice lots of different uses of tenses and POVs in naming schemes. For example, there are two articles for the Wall Jump, named Wall jump and Wall jumping. Also, we need to use proper title caps for article titles. "Wall jump" is not acceptable. I suggest a non plural(unless several types exist) and neutral tense titles. No "Wave Dashing", "wave Dashing", or "Bunny Hoods". "Beam Swords" might be acceptable if the article covers both Beam Swords in the series. Page URLs and locations are case sensitive. We MUST decide on a uniform naming system now, or we'll have a total mess. It would be best to get everything organized now, while the number of pages are small and link fixing is minimal. xnamkcor 03/08/07 1600(AZ/US)
- This belongs in the Pool Room. WaluigiIsAwesome 18:16, March 9, 2007 (GMT)
- Moved to the Pool Room. – MaskedMarth (t c) 19:37, March 9, 2007 (GMT)
- Per this topic, here are a few guidelines I follow:
- use the singular form of nouns
- with verbs, use the gerund form (jump-canceling) unless the original form (wavedash) can also be used as a noun.
- do NOT use title caps. This is against the "rules" for titles but more appropriate for an encyclopedia, because we're documenting the proper capitalization of the term (hence, wall jumping is the proper title). Wiki software automatically capitalizes the first letter of the title; not much we can do about that.
- full names should be used, not abbreviations. Thus, forward aerial instead of "f-air" or "AFA."
- I think these things should be put in a help page or a SmashWiki guideline, so that people know how to name their articles. I'll start on that right now. – MaskedMarth (t c) 19:45, March 9, 2007 (GMT)
StrategyWiki
Hi, I come from StrategyWiki. A wiki site dedicated to providing video game strategies and guides for all games. For more about what we are standing for, see here.
I come here asking for the community of the Smash Boards, and smashwiki in particular, would be interested in helping us to flesh out our SSB SSBM and SSBB guides. We have several dedicated Smash players there (myself included) and we have been working on the guides of the two released games for a while, but we could definitly use the touch of some of the more veteran smash players of the world, and I figured this would be the best place to find them. We are forming a small group to start up work on the SSBB guide as soon as we can get our hands on it, but nothing would help out more then the members here taking a look at all our smash games and lending their expertise. If this isn't possible, I ask if the content in this wiki could be lent in it's current form (via Special:Export) to expand our guides. According to your copyright status, it doesn't seem possible without relicensing of content, which you stipulate may be done at any point.
If any of the members here more knowledgeable in the game could help out at strategywiki, it would be greatly appreciated. Regardless of the response I get to this topic here I'm going to check out this wiki and the forums myself, can't believe I didn't come here earlier. So hello :) Mason11987 02:11, March 10, 2007 (GMT)
Languages
Currently, the only page in other languages is Global Smasher Compendium (fr, sv, es) which I personally find a shame. Maybe we should have other pages in other languages (like sv:Super Smash Bros. Melee for a Swedish SSBM article). Whaddcha think? – Smiddle ( Talk • Conts ) 18:26, March 12, 2007 (GMT)
- Eh? – Smiddle ( Talk • Conts ) 19:13, March 20, 2007 (GMT)
- I don't know that we have enough of an international audience for that to make a huge difference. Also I'd be concerned about having to monitor the content of different wikis in different languages on top of this one, and handling policies on each, and the extra administrative work that would probably be involved. I'm really just not convinced that there's a significant need for this. --Kirby King 02:07, March 21, 2007 (GMT)
- Smash World is in English, so it makes sense to keep SmashWiki in English too. Besides, I don't feel confident enough in French to write articles in that language, and most other editors are the same way with their languages. – MaskedMarth (t c) 15:16, March 21, 2007 (GMT)
- I don't know that we have enough of an international audience for that to make a huge difference. Also I'd be concerned about having to monitor the content of different wikis in different languages on top of this one, and handling policies on each, and the extra administrative work that would probably be involved. I'm really just not convinced that there's a significant need for this. --Kirby King 02:07, March 21, 2007 (GMT)
We don't need thousand page compendiums in other languages, one, two or three or something may be enough. – Smiddle ( Talk • Conts ) 15:27, March 21, 2007 (GMT)
- It does no harm to do a couple of the big articles...but also no good. The largest articles, such as SSBM, have Wiki pages in other languages. Also, interlinking would be completely useless from these pages -- it would do no good to link to an English page from one in Deutch. The amount of work is not beneficial when compared to the small audience and usefulness. -- Bean 17:56, March 21, 2007 (GMT)
Links
How do I make my words into a link? Normally I just put that [1] thingy, but I'd like to have the words as the link. Also, how do I put that box where I can display information?--Smasherboy13 15:13, March 17, 2007 (GMT)
- http://smashwiki.com/ = http://smashwiki.com/
- [http://smashwiki.com/] = [1]
- [http://smashwiki.com/ a site] = a site
- I don't really get what you mean with the box thingy... perhaps templates? – Smiddle ( Talk • Conts ) 11:49, March 18, 2007 (GMT)
Engrish
Is it necessary to have the Japanese pronunciations if it's just Engrish? Is there a point to writing "Kyaputen Farukon" (Captain Falcon) or "Roi" (Roy) or "Rinku" (Link)? Some, such as Pikachu and Mario are written exactly the same way. And this also goes for "Kuppa" (Bowser). Why not just write "Koopa" and leave it at that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Greenblob (talk • contribs) {{{2}}}
Vacation
I will be absent March 22nd to March 30th, so please update the Article of the Week while I'm gone! Just choose a suitable article, c/p the introduction into SmashWiki:Article of the Week/2007-13, and rock and roll! – MaskedMarth (t c) 22:58, March 21, 2007 (GMT)
Professionals
Nothing about the definition (waits for sigh of relief)....just wondering if we still need the Professionals page now that the Category:Character Specific Professionals page is done. I think the former is unnecessary. Btw I need a page deleted which is listed in that category..it's a duplicate where an error occurred when I used & in the title. -- Bean 06:23, March 23, 2007 (GMT)
We need a "featured article" template or something
Right now, the only way to tell if an article is featured is to look in the archive. We need some sort of template or symbol that signifies it. WaluigiIsAwesome 06:03, March 25, 2007 (GMT)
- We have an AOTW template. It's at template:aotw or template:AOTW. – Smiddle ( Talk • Conts ) 13:55, March 25, 2007 (GMT)
