Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-4533965-20140409023013/@comment-679780-20140409150611

BlueSpeeder wrote: Perhaps I'm beating a dead horse of a topic, but just to clarify, I'm really confused.

Okay, so the whole rules of crossover characters and such has been a controversial topic on this wiki, and as much as I hate to bring this up, I believe we need to both simplify it to here it doesn't seem SO confusing to understand and rewrite a few things. Oh, and I do have some comments to make.

First off, the rules of the crossover character are just downright contradicting. "A character from that game may receive a page IF Sonic appeared." Okay, so do tell me this: why the heck does all of the Mario characters get their own pages, but none of the Smash Bros. characters (some of them that have appeared twice, mind you) may NOT receive articles? Link, for example? ''He appears in Lost World and in both Smash Bros. games Sonic appears in. Yet, he can't get an article.'' I'm probably missing something here (most of the time on situations like this, I am), but I'm probably not the only one out there.

Second, a bit of a rewrite. Two comics/games/etc. just to get an article? That's a bit off-putting. Personally, those Smash Bros. characters should get articles for the following:


 * What if, a viewer wants to know more about Greninja or Link or Zelda? They obviously won't find it here. Sure; this guy has put in effort to make articles of what I'm talking about, but viewers won't have a clue to get to his subpages. Instead, someone can just type "Pikachu" on the search bar and BAM! they're there. (lol)
 * Weren't wikis supposed to give information about a subject? We're essentially contradicting that question if so.
 * And finally; what does a page of Samus Aran or Fox McCloud going to hurt? Hell, we have a page on Toad, a character who has never been playable in Sonic-relate games, yet he gets a page?! I tell you this: allowing that page to stay but the Smash Bros. characters not is total a hypocrite move.

Now, like I said, I'm confused on everything about this subject, the reason I don't want to attempt to bring up a dead horse, but to at least help it and others. Thank you for reading, and comment below. 02:30, April 9, 2014 (UTC) Basically, if Sonic and another character has had direct interactions more than two or three times, the later character is entitled to an article here. However I would encourage that multiple non-Sonic characters of the same series to be put into one article than many minor articles on them.

A good example would be the movie Wreck-It Ralph where Sonic cameo's as a background character but not a minor one. To me, this would make Ralph only ½ worthy of an article here. Then Ralph himself appeared in Sonic & All-Star Racing Transformed so thats a full point to alph to have his own article here. However whenever you think it's two or three apperances for a non-Sonic character to have his own article here, Ralph only has 1½ apperances.


 * Then we link to other wiki's, for example, if you want to know more about Greninja, [go here].
 * We're here to give information based on Sonic the Hedgehog. This is a Sonic the Hedgehog wiki. Yes we can talk about non-Sonic characters but only as minor articles that only directly interacted with Sonic. Super Smash Bros don't count for me since Sonic was only chosen as a newcomer fighter in a non-canon spin off game where combat with other fighters is just optional. (I still don't think we need all these Megaman articles.)
 * I don't recall Samus or Fox ever being in a Sonic game at all, while Toad has had more direct interactions with Sonic in the Olympic games. Albeit spin-off games, even I agree with you that perhaps there are too much Mario articles that I prefer and we need less of them.