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editing rules

  1. PrinceofPein

    Minor Overgeared Revision (Naming Rule)

    Overgeared while not a new verse gained popularity sometime back, pages are currently in works for it and two of the pages are currently up. This is to add and make sure all new pages created for the verse follows the proper naming convention This are the two pages Shin Youngwoo (Grid) and Yura...

  2. Regarding Page Names (Semantics)

    Introduction Legendary Russian linguist, Roman Jackobson, once said: Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language. (I have no idea who the hell that is, but cool quote...
  3. Antvasima

    Fan art for characters with no official appearance

    Hello. I have been told that our rules currently do not sufficiently well define that fan art, whether drawn or A.I-generated, that depicts book characters with no officially displayed appearance, i.e. that is based on guesswork, should not be used. I think that we talked about this in an...
  4. Agnaa

    Proposal for Off-Site Links Revision

    Currently, it's allowed to link off-site respect threads or calculations, as long as certain rules are followed, as outlined in our Editing Rules... Most of this makes sense, but I don't get the part in bold. I can see some threads of reasoning behind it, those being: The risk of a respect...
  5. Antvasima

    Wiki Vandalism Reports

    This thread will be used to report edits to any of our wiki pages that are considered unacceptable by our wiki's standards. Reports here should cover the following types of violations: Vandalism and trolling in our wiki pages Bad edits that violate our guidelines regarding structure formats...
  6. Lynieryz

    Is it necessary to create a CRT to add references and scans to a profile?

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  7. Antvasima

    Music stage personas (Staff only)

    Hello. I think that we should delete all of the music stage persona pages that have recently popped up in our wiki. https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Music https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Music_Characters I thought that we made an exception for certain wrestlers that are...
  8. Antvasima

    A new rule for social media links?

    Hello. Given that social media links can easily be edited or deleted, I think that it seems better if we add a rule about creating cropped screencaptures and inserting them into reference sections combined with the original links. Preferably in a similar manner to the following example...
  9. IdiosyncraticLawyer

    Setting down consistent verse naming procedures

    Spun off from this thread: https://vsbattles.com/threads/vs-battles-to-do-list-help-greatly-needed.139232/
  10. DaMonkeMan

    Editing some rules for the Wiki

    Permission from Agnaa to post this. First of all, this shouldn't apply to any and every edit/chance made to a page, as some edits can be very evident or blatant, for example: If I made an edit that says "Fire Manipulation" for this character's profile, that should be fine as it's pretty clear...
  11. Maverick_Zero_X

    Establishing rules for Varies ratings

    I noticed that “Varies” ratings don’t have specific standards for them listed in any of our Wiki Rules (or none that I could find), and Variable Tiers don’t even have so much as a passing mention on the Tiering System page. The lack of defined standards has caused Variable Tiers to be...
  12. Deagonx

    Infinite Power Statements - Editing Rules Revision

    Per some discussions with DT and Ant, and given a few recent incidents involving discussions about the phrase "infinite power" being used in CRTs, it seemed prudent to clarify the wiki policy on how we treat statements of "infinite power" as there is a widespread misconception that such a...
  13. Bobsican

    Editing Rules: A recent CRT mistakenly removed some rules plus other stuff

    After browsing around for a certain rule, I've noticed that it was removed since the application of this thread, which while productive, it seems to have also done some mistakes, so let's fix them, shall we? For starters: - The main rule outlining the criteria for valid verse-specific powers...
  14. ElajRuengies

    References and Parentheses

    Do references go inside of parentheses like Or outside of the parentheses like I'm asking this because I thought it was the former, but @Just_a_Random_Butler edited this page to be the latter, so now I'm confused
  15. Tllmbrg

    Should we allow Varies rating without an in universe mechanic

    https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Ed,_Edd_and_Eddy Should we allow verses like this to have Varies due to "Cartoon logic" where they're inconsistent in their feats?
  16. Mariogoods

    Extended the encouragement of archiving external websites

    In Editing Rules, I have found this: Here, I suggest for changing the rule as such: By the way, I'm unsure if scans links should be archived for copyright reasons. But I personally feel that if we could archive the whole works (which often happens when a work is dead so hard that the...
  17. Mariogoods

    Viewer DiscretionViewer Template Removal

    It is simple: delete Template:Viewer DiscretionViewer and replaced every profiles using the template with Template:Content Warning.
  18. Antvasima

    A possible new rule for gender sections in our character profile pages

    Hello. As you may or may not know, we had a recent discussion regarding whether or not we should follow Fandom's official policy standards of writing "Female (Assigned male at birth)" or "Male (Assigned female at birth)" in the gender sections for transgender characters, which have been...
  19. Bobsican

    Stricter Verse-Specific P&A pages standards

    Continued from here Okay, now that the amount of verse-specific P&As is starting to rivalize vanilla P&As, I think it's about time some more rigorous standards are put in place to keep quality on the site before it gets out of hand. Now, we all know that currently verse-specific P&A pages...
  20. Agnaa

    Important! New Pages NEED References

    Heya all! As discussed in these threads, the "References" section in character profiles is no longer optional. It is extremely important that all of us try to start using references for important information in profile pages from now on. Here is the instruction page on how to use them...
  21. The_Impress

    Rule changes regarding music video files

    Hello, this thread is to notify that the rule which previously forbid music video files period, has now been substituted with this rule: As this is a relatively new rule, this has potential to be changed in the scenario an undesirable loophole is noted, so ensure that your files may very well...
  22. Mariogoods

    Companies category guidelines

    I have noticed a company category Category:MiHoYo. While the category description is good, I noted that the description may be a little too detailed. First, I feel that the company categories description does not need a list of the verses created by these companies. For example, Category:MiHoYo...
  23. Agnaa

    Rule Against Verses With Slurs In Name

    Given recent events in the RVT, I suggest a rule along the lines of: Be added to the Editing Rules page, to codify the opinion shown there.
  24. Agnaa

    Stricter References Standards

    In this thread from August last year, it was announced that, over time, requirements for references on profiles would be enforced with more strictness. Why not start now? Of the 13 new character pages since June 26th started, according to the wiki's timer, 9 of those pages included references...
  25. Bobsican

    Standarizing criteria for Top Navigation Templates

    As most may be aware by now, plenty of pages on the site have a template at the top of them, namely to feature other incarnations/eras of the same character in the same franchise, however, keeping track of the standards for when a page qualifies to be in one or not has been turning quite hard...
  26. The_Impress

    Music Video Files Re-Evaluation (STAFF ONLY)

    So currently our Editing Rules page lists the following rule: This has been put into question recently in the Profile Deletion Requests Thread, where some staff members were in support of enacting this rule for file deletions, while others were against it. To move discussion this thread has...
  27. FinePoint

    Degrees of Infinity - Being More Specific

    After some discussion here, it was determined that we need to draft an editing rule regarding that the degree of infinity for tiers Low 1-C and above should be clarified whenever it is known. My Proposal: In addition to this issue, I think many people can agree that in general finding the...
  28. Gilad_Hyperstar

    Why profiles are so annoying to edit now?

    For some reason, when I try to edit the profiles in either source mode or visual mode in the wikia, it doesn't let me write anything unless I hold the mouse, and even then it's a pain to write anything. If anyone else have this problem, or know about this problem, then I'll be happy to hear it
  29. Antvasima

    Important: A project to replace all Discord images in our regular wiki pages

    Hello. As I mentioned in the thread linked below a few months ago, Discord images extremely easily disappear, including if an old post is deleted or the chat room it was posted in is closed down, so, for safety reasons, we need to replace all links to them in our regular wiki pages with images...
  30. I'm_Blue_daba_dee_daba_die

    How to link to the Smash Wiki

    How do you link to the Smash Wiki on VS Battles??? Besides just copy and pasting the URL
  31. Antvasima

    Wiki linking to discussion threads or Discord images

    Given that Bobsican is being impatient regarding this subject, I suppose that I have to stress out a discussion thread despite that I am already overwhelmed with work. Anyway, this is not remotely a new practice, given that I have been giving these instructions for years within the wiki, but...
  32. Bobsican

    Regarding linking to the wiki forum as evidence on wiki pages

    It appears that @Antvasima is quite against the practice of linking directly to sections of the wiki forum for purposes of explaining a detail within a page's contents, namely out of this compromising the accessability of the information for visitors, respectively. However, it appears that this...
  33. AKM sama

    Important: A new rule about References

    Heya all! This is an announcement. As discussed in this thread, the "References" section in character profiles is no longer optional. It is extremely important that all of us try to start using references for important information in profile pages from now on. Here is the instruction page on...
  34. Bobsican

    Renaming character pages to their verse name than the debuted entry

    Because of a recent CRT, it's now a Editing Rule to usually clarify a character's name if needed in case it's the same or too similar to others by the name of their verse, rather than their respective entry they debuted on, beyond some exceptions as the rule clarifies. That being said, report...
  35. Valiant_Abyss

    Help putting a tabber in a tabber?

    I need some help with the source code for doing a tabber within a tabber. I need it to do a split gallery within a tab.
  36. Bobsican

    Off-Site Respect Threads on Wiki Pages (Staff Only)

    I know I'm not staff and all, but I got authorization from Ant to do this thread. Anyways, it has been noticed recently that there's some profiles that link to off-site "Respect Threads", which list a bunch of miscelaneous feats and statements. The problem? Such threads don't follow our...
  37. AKM sama

    Wiki Project: Adding the "Discussions" template to pages

    The New Template So you're surfing the wiki and stumbled upon a page, say Dragon Ball, and you want to view all the discussion threads related to it. Long ago, this was conveniently possible when we still had our old forum and threads. Then everything changed when the UCP happened. And when we...
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  38. Daddybrawl

    New Fanfiction Rule Interactions

    Hello there! So, in a recent thread concerning popular works that contain amounts of works that don’t belong to the owner, a new rule concerning what defines ‘Fan-Made’ was developed. The exact rule is as such: Do not add any original or fan-made characters to the wiki. If you wish to create...
  39. The_Impress

    Making it compulsory to list sources for multi-work series

    This is something that is surprisingly not a rule, or something that is even done often But I want to ask for a proposal to the editing rules and standard format for profiles, that we make it compulsory for people to source statements made within profile, for any multi-work series i.e. Series...
  40. SamanPatou

    A rule about verse pages that feature link images for non-existent profiles

    As I mentioned here, some verse pages have link images for characters that don't have a profile. These images lead to empty pages like this or this. I think that a rule should be established about it, in order to have verse pages with only image links for characters that actually have a profile...
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