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If anyone's interested, I finally made that poll about the community story. Here's the link.

Like I said, I don't think we should change Smashwiki's current status. I also don't think we should just go and create a wiki about official Smash Bros. This is just preparing for a possible eventuallity. I'm one of those people that likes to have a plan in place when something happens.

And what I mean by basic is just official things, such as the website and Smash Bros. games and nothing else. The problem with competitive type games is that line between official and fanmade blurs. What Smashwiki does it does extremely well and I use it often, but my friend who understands AP Chem 10 was completely lost when she saw some of the more technical terms. Honestly, I might have been wrong to bring this up before actually needing a plan. I just thought having a plan set up would be useful.

I'm posing the idea of a community story. There would actually be two stories done similar to The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Seasons in which there are two, seemingly seperate, stories that meet up in a third semi-story. The reason for two stories is to prevent character overload like The Subspace Emissary. The way it would be done is each wiki would elect a group of four to five people to represent that wiki in a story team. This story team would decide upon the basic plotline of the story along with what characters are present, which games to go off of (Which Link do we use? What Star Fox Command ending(s) do we consider?), and other such things. After the story team finishes up with creating the basic plot, one or two people from each wiki would be selected to write the chapters. The stories would be written round robin style. This means that one person would write a chapter and send it off to the next person who would write the next chapter. Of course, the person passing off the story could give advice. Say I ended on a cliffhanger of a villain defeating a hero. I could suggest the next person choose what character saves the hero, but they would not have to listen to that suggestion. Also, if anyone volunteers, the story could have illustrators to depict the story. If anyone wants clarification, just ask.

Okay. I understand, but I think you misinterpretted what I meant. I wasn't saying we should change Smashwiki's current status. There is no reason to alter Smashwiki. I was thinking more along the lines of a good wiki about the basic parts of Smash Bros. comes along and wants to join. Of course, they only can if Smashwiki agrees, but this would be for the for the basics as in only information found in the Smash Bros. games. Thinking about it, this might be something better discussed when/if the issue ever comes up.

I guess I did misunderstand; the more important question to me, though, is why anyone would use that instead of simply skimming over the info they don't care about on SmashWiki as is.

I'm just thinking about the newer players. If you just got into a series, you'd wnat to learn the basics before you learned about the competitive stuff, right? Plus, alot of the terms used are fan terms and things like tiers can get confusing. Especially considering how contriversial they are. Like I said before, I 'm just asking if people would be open to the idea of a second, more basic wiki.

Okay. I understand, but I think you misinterpretted what I meant. I wasn't saying we should change Smashwiki's current status. There is no reason to alter Smashwiki. I was thinking more along the lines of a good wiki about the basic parts of Smash Bros. comes along and wants to join. Of course, they only can if Smashwiki agrees, but this would be for the for the basics as in only information found in the Smash Bros. games. Thinking about it, this might be something better discussed when/if the issue ever comes up.

As far as the story, I'll post a poll where you suggested. It'll be a bit more in depth.

I was talking this over with Tacopill on Lylat Wiki and I wanted to suggest this. Firstly, I wanted to suggest a second, more basic Smashwiki to accompany the one we currently have. Note: I'm just suggesting the possibility of one. I don't have one in the works, nor would I be able to. I was thinking this second wiki would just focus on the games and characters as they appear ingame. Compared to the current Smashwiki, which seems to take the games' competitive side as the main focus. In a way, it's similar to how we have two Pikmin wikis. All those names and tiers are fanmade, right? Plus, if this ever does come to fruition, each wiki could have a notice saying something like "You are on (enter basic Smashwiki name) if you want a more in depth wiki, go to Smashwiki."

Secondly, and this probably would not happen for a while, would be a community story. It would be done round robin style, as in I would write one chapter and send it to someone else to write the next chapter. To prevent character overfill similar to what happened in The Subspace Emissary, there would actually be two stories that meet up at the end. To give you an idea, think The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Seasons.  There'd be a story team that would decided which characters go into what story, how the characters interact, and the general events of the stories. After all this, a group would write each of the chapters. If anyone is interested, I'll post a topic at some point that  would give full details.