Board Thread:Smashpedia Business/@comment-4814368-20131219171509

Hey folks! I shared this w/ Ultraman, but since he mentioned he'd be interested in hearing other thoughts about it, I wanted to share this here. I made a visual character portal for the upcoming 3DS/WiiU Smash. You can check it out here: http://supersmashbros.wikia.com/wiki/User:JAlbor#TEST.

I think this would be a good addition to the mainpage and/or the game page itself for a few reasons:
 * 1) The visual design of a mainpage, or any page for that matter, can really improve people who actually stay, explore, and hopefully edit. This way lets people see characters, new and old alike, at a glance.
 * 2) The characters can be as big or as small as we like. Since they stack horizontally, this actually saves us space on the game page, which currently listed the characters in a vertical list. It also makes use of all that empty white space currently in the characters section.
 * 3) Images are one of the biggest ways strangers find wikia communities, so having the images in a character portal can help improve the sites SEO.
 * 4) There are quite a few people (friends of mine included), who played the old games but don't actually know the names of the characters. This might let some visitors recognize the character they loved without having to dig deep on every character page for what they're looking for. Or, for newcomers, it might help them actually remember who, say, Rosalina & Luma actually are.

Anyway, let me know what you all think! 