Talk:Series symbol: Difference between revisions

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:I disagree that we don't need a placeholder - for one, simply because we're a wiki. If someone comes along to a page and sees that there is no symbol for something, they're more likely to believe that it's missing as opposed to intentionally absent, and try to add one. Whereas if we use a placeholder symbol, chosen because it has official existence yet is only used in one rather obscure location, they're more likely to leave it be. Plus at this point it's kind of a "thing" of ours; more experienced readers understand how we use it and will get confused if it suddenly disappears without replacement. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Labbie 19:25, 9 August 2018 (EDT)
:I disagree that we don't need a placeholder - for one, simply because we're a wiki. If someone comes along to a page and sees that there is no symbol for something, they're more likely to believe that it's missing as opposed to intentionally absent, and try to add one. Whereas if we use a placeholder symbol, chosen because it has official existence yet is only used in one rather obscure location, they're more likely to leave it be. Plus at this point it's kind of a "thing" of ours; more experienced readers understand how we use it and will get confused if it suddenly disappears without replacement. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Labbie 19:25, 9 August 2018 (EDT)
::Well, even if we need a placeholder, it shouldn't be the Special Stages symbol because that was used for the Melee Battlefield and that is not related to the universes we use this symbol for. Maybe a blank symbol would be better? And if someone thinks a symbol is missing we can add a hidden note to tell them that the universe doesn't have a symbol. It's more confusing to see Melee's Battlefield having the same symbol as the minor universes. [[User:SeanWheeler|SeanWheeler]] ([[User talk:SeanWheeler|talk]]) 01:05, 10 August 2018 (EDT)
::Well, even if we need a placeholder, it shouldn't be the Special Stages symbol because that was used for the Melee Battlefield and that is not related to the universes we use this symbol for. Maybe a blank symbol would be better? And if someone thinks a symbol is missing we can add a hidden note to tell them that the universe doesn't have a symbol. It's more confusing to see Melee's Battlefield having the same symbol as the minor universes. [[User:SeanWheeler|SeanWheeler]] ([[User talk:SeanWheeler|talk]]) 01:05, 10 August 2018 (EDT)
:::Blank is no better than "none" in my opinion, and it's best to not rely on hidden notes. And in a way, the symbol could very well be how Melee handles ''all'' "other" elements; we just don't now for sure because there's only one. I don't really think it's worth changing. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Undirigible 18:43, 10 August 2018 (EDT)