Board Thread:Smashpedia Business/@comment-24483712-20140205235929/@comment-24483712-20140207021432

Far from minor. I can access almost any random page that has more than a couple of sentences and see glaring problems on each one. Not to mention that many of these articles look and read as though they were written by elementary school students.

I just spammed the random page button until I got a character page.

http://supersmashbros.wikia.com/wiki/Pikachu_(SSBM)

"Pikachu is currently 12th on the tier list because it is one of the better edge-guarders in the game, and on top of that it has good recovery and reliable killers as well as a decent projectile. This results in Pikachu being a D tier. Having said that, it also has somewhat mediocre range in some non-electrical based attacks, and it is relatively easy to combo."

Pikachu ranks 10th on the tier list as of the most recent tier list released by the Melee Back Room, in the A tier. Well then. The first and last sentences in both paragraphs are also phrased very awkwardly. Read that first sentence out loud. Seriously.

Let's try another page:

http://supersmashbros.wikia.com/wiki/Lag

"Hitlag, referred to on the Dojo as "impact stall", is the lag that occurs to an attacking character when a powerful move connects with an opponent. Most hitlags are only a few frames, but some hitlags are quite long..."

Completely mixes up hitlag with freeze frames.

"Not to be confused with hitlag is hitstun. Hitstun is the amount of frames between the time you get hit and when the knockback actually occurs."

Lol. This is the definition of freeze frames, albeit very awkwardly worded (note the second person as well).

In fact, this page fails to mention the actual meaning of hitstun at all, or "the period of time after being hit that a character is unable to act outside of directional influence or teching (ssbwiki)."

Let's find another page:

http://supersmashbros.wikia.com/wiki/Mushroom_Kingdom:_Rainbow_Cruise

This page lists the stage Rainbow Cruise as tournament legal in both Melee Singles and Melee Doubles, which hasn't been true for a year or more. I could go on, but that'd probably take a couple years.

At this point it's not even worth attempting a merge of the two wikis. This one is inferior in every way, but somehow still ends up on top of ssbwiki in most google searches, providing blatantly wrong information to God knows how many inquisitive smashers.

Unless someone wants to undergo the massive task of revising this piece of shit so it actually can call itself a wikia, the admins should really just delete it.