Sonic News Network talk:Community Portal

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Trivia
This wikia is in desperate need of trivia guidelines, its the biggest single let down I find and from the Silver page some suggestions:
 * 1) At the most no trivia section should have more then 12 points of trivia, anymore and you have to ask what is and isn't truly trivia.
 * 2) If theres a chuck of related trivia, give it its own section elsewhere on the page.
 * 3) A trivia section should NEVER have more text in it then any other seciton of the page.
 * 4) Don't trivia for the sake of trivia.  This is considered unprofessional, sloppy and desperate. In other words, don't point out the obivous (i.e. for examples sake: "collecting Rings will give you Rings")
 * 5) Don't let speculations in there, we could speculate all day on if character like Silver and Shade are going to appear in the future.
 * 6) Cut out the character comparisons between Sonic and Shadow and Sonic and Silver and Silver and Blaze, etc. They are long, boring and useless. Any set amount of characters within a series will share traits with each other, there is little sense in pointing them out.
 * 7) Keep mention of fan out of the page. Magazines, yeah heck include them.  Fan don't.
 * 8) "Most", "Many" and "Some" are poor words and should be avoided anyway on the page. How many is many?  What percentage is Most?  Same with Some.  Many could be several, several hundred or sevenral thousand.

Thats all that I can think of. The other sections on any wikia are easy to clean up, but trivia is the one thing that needs to be controlled carefully. Wikipedia has this whole "anti-trivia" thing on it, wikias are the only haven trivia has. One-Winged Hawk 10:57, September 27, 2009 (UTC)


 * That's exactly what I'm thinking. I've been trying to edit the article's trivia sections and cleaning them up but they kept being brought back. What's worse is that it was a moderator that did it. Apparently it's not just editors but if a mod thinks it's okay, then no one in this wiki knows how to properly do trivia correctly. The points you have made are exactly what I have in mind sans the first one. There is no specific number for trivia, it's just what you can fit in the article that is necessary. Even if there are 20 items that can't be placed in the article itself, then it could still be counted as trivia but of course it's gotta be a correct definition of Trivia.--TKGB 00:37, October 8, 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree with you on all points, although am willing to compromise slightly on the character comparisons. Shadow, Blaze and (to a lesser extent) Silver were all designed with the intention of being counterparts to Sonic. This may be worth mentioning, although the long lists of pointless trivia we get regarding these (e.g. "they both have 5 letters in their name") should be cut. -- Supermorff 17:20, September 30, 2009 (UTC)

Over-categorisation is not the answer, although I would not be opposed to list articles to serve the same purpose. -- Supermorff 21:42, October 1, 2009 (UTC)

Outdated fanon
I would like to propose new guidelines for dealing with fanon. I'm sick of old fanon articles, even in userspace, clogging up the site when nobody cares if they are there or not. I therefore suggest that if 1) a user has not contributed to SNN in over six months and 2) a subpage of that user's page has not been edited in over six months, then that subpage can be immediately deleted.

I further suggest that any fanon articles that are created in a userspace of a user that does not exist (by which I mean, the user has no edits on this site) that those fanon articles can also be immediately deleted. -- Supermorff 16:15, April 4, 2010 (UTC)

Ehh, I'm not too crazy about the idea. For one, a wiki has an infinite amount of space for articles, so it can never get "clogged up". Also, while the "User not being on for six months" thing might be reasonable, the "not being edited for six months" bit might not be, because the owner might simply not have a reason to edit the page.--Kagi mizu -Seeya  'round ~ 17:33, April 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * That's why you need both. It's not an either/or thing. Both conditions must be satisfied. -- Supermorff 17:48, April 4, 2010 (UTC)

Ohhhh. Well if that's the case, it might be satisfactory, though giving the User a warning beforehand would be a good addition to that, just in case they are on other wikis.--Kagi mizu -Seeya  'round ~ 17:53, April 4, 2010 (UTC)

i agree, a warning is fare, if there is no response to the warning within 5 days, we should go ahead and delete it. Sonictoast 00:21, April 5, 2010 (UTC)

What is with this edit box?
Maybe you should complain to someone who actually has the power to fix it, like staff at central Wikia. -- Supermorff 07:30, May 9, 2010 (UTC)

New skin
Okay guys, I think it's time that we get a new skin for the site. I'm still proud of the background I made, but I think I've gone as far as I can with improving the look of the site, and I think the background might be holding us back. Until recently I wasn't particularly concerned, but now that the Sonic Fanon Wiki looks more professional than we do, I feel it's time for another go. I'm willing to take any ideas, but if none are forthcoming then I suggest we contact the Wikia Content Team. This could result in a fairly hefty change if they agree to help, although I suspect that we'll get the final say. What do people think? -- Supermorff 19:44, July 21, 2010 (UTC)

I've gotta say I'm pretty happy with how the SNN looks right now. We shouldn't have to compete with a sister Wiki over appearance.--Kagi mizu -Seeya 'round 19:59, July 21, 2010 (UTC)

Yeah I like the background, makes the wiki look more sonicy.  Myself  123  20:07, July 21, 2010 (UTC)