Help talk:Contents/Rules & Guidelines

Just thought of something.

Should we add "Write the article as if everyone reading it has already played the game" to this? I figured we wouldn't want to have any pointless story detail or anything like that. --AquaBat 16:48, 24 February 2013 (EST)
 * I don't think it's necessary. --BMF54123 16:51, 24 February 2013 (EST)

Clarification on pre-release information
The rule for 'Prerelease screenshots & videos' states that the only exception is that what is being exhibited within the image or trailer must still be programmed into the game. This seems a little odd to me I must say, but I just wanted to make sure that this excludes anything that can't be found in the final game. Which includes trailers, instruction manuals, magazine screenshots, developer interviews and even press kit releases? For example, this would include the changes in grammar within the first set of Pokemon games, entire cutscenes that appear in trailers and have been cut from the final (such as in Kingdom Hearts 2). --Spriteit 09:56, 23 March 2013 (EDT)
 * If the things that were cut can't be found anywhere within the files of the game, we don't cover it. If you have proof that, to go along with your example, a cutscene shown in a trailer for Kingdom Hearts 2 isn't used but still exists hidden within the files of the final game, then it can be covered, and you may add screenshots or videos of trailers that show it (but be sure to upload the cutscene found itself along with those). But if not, we don't bother with it.


 * As for the grammar in the Pokémon games, are you saying demonstrations and trailers of the game showed different grammar in the text than that of the text of the final games? If so, if you can find the old text within text files for the game, you can set them up in a comparison with the text in the final and put that in the respective articles. If not, that's not worth mentioning, especially since it's such a minor detail.


 * Does that clear things up? --AquaBat 11:12, 23 March 2013 (EDT)


 * I think the grammar thing refers to screenshots that showed things like "The BROCK wants to fight!" and "The MISTY wants to fight!" It might not have been separate text so much as a parser(?) to figure out where "the" needed to be in battle intros. But no, if it can't be found in-game then we don't cover it here, although BMF (I think) has been working on a website to house and document prerelease materials. -WarioBarker 16:09, 23 March 2013 (EDT)
 * It does, and honestly it disappoints me a little that it doesn't cover all aspects of games that have been cut, I really dig finding out that stuff, but I understand you wanna keep it to stuff that's still in the games. Thanks muchly AquaBat. And it was WArioBarker, well, one example.--Spriteit 04:49, 24 March 2013 (EDT)

Fan Games?
If the rules say no fan games, then why are there pages of Super Mario Bros. Crossover and Super Smash Bros. Crusade? --Dr. Yay 21:54, 30 April 2013 (EDT)
 * As I recall, those pages existed before the rules were overhauled, so they're grandfathered in.
 * The primary reason we don't accept fangames is because it's easy for any random schmuck with a terrible game to load it with fake "unused" content, just so they can create a page here and basically get free advertising. (Yes, this actually did happen a few times.) --BMF54123 23:24, 30 April 2013 (EDT)