SmashWiki:What SmashWiki is not: Difference between revisions

As SmashWiki is an online encyclopedia in the same vein as Wikipedia (even using the same software), it makes sense that information is covered in a similar way. With that said, however, SmashWiki and Wikipedia are not to be treated as the same. While Wikipedia may cover information in one way, that does not mean that we at SmashWiki need to emulate how it is displayed on Wikipedia. The same rule applies to policies; Wikipedia has its own policies that they adhere to, and SmashWiki has its own, separate policies that should be adhered to (for example, Wikipedia strictly requires citations for most content in its articles and strongly discourages the use of primary sources, while SmashWiki is more lax on [[SW:CITE|what content requires citation]] and strongly prefers direct primary sources over a secondary source's "interpretation"). Additionally, SmashWiki is not affiliated with Wikipedia's parent organisation, the Wikimedia Foundation.

This extends to other NIWA wikis, as one wiki covering information a certain way or having a particular policy does not mean that SmashWiki should cover information that same way or follow that particular policy, and vice versa (for example, other NIWA wikis have a policy of strictly prioritizing official terminology, while SmashWiki, as covered prior, has an explicit policy of not doing so).