Smashpedia:How to contribute to Smashpedia

Before you start editing SmashWiki, there are a few things you should note in order to make things as smooth as possible. If you have experience with wikis, you may be familiar with some of this information, but please read it anyway to become accustomed to our conventions. If you feel like you need more help understanding wikis, there are a number of other resources that explain how to use wikis in general.

Talk pages
Talk pages are essentially pages to discuss articles on this wiki. Discussion is usually about the content of the page, planning future content, discussing changes, etc. Talk pages are separate from the articles themselves, so you should be careful to avoid mixing the two up. You can get to a page's talk page by clicking the tab marked "discussion" on that page.

When you make a comment on a talk page (and only a talk page), you should sign your comment. You can do this by clicking the signature icon above the edit box, or manually by inserting four tildes ( ~ ) after your message. This will leave your username and the time you wrote your message. You can also make sure you keep your comments in context by using semicolons to mark your place in a discussion.

For example:

This is the first message.


 * This is a response to the first message. This is the second message.


 * This message is in response to the second message.


 * This message is another response to the first message.

results in:

This is the first message.


 * This is a response to the first message. This is the second message.


 * This message is in response to the second message.


 * This message is another response to the first message.

User pages
User pages are for users to essentially have a space for free-play. Your user page is something akin to your profile on the wiki, and can be accessed by going to. You can create sub-pages of your user page (e.g.  to test new pages, and later copy the content over. Your user pages also has a talk page; unlike most others, however, your talk page is a place for others to leave you messages or discuss other issues on the wiki.