Project "Gotta Document 'Em All!"
Posted by: Torchickens
Date: 2016-11-16 08:48:43
This task usually requires much time and research or lots of paraphrasing but to make it much easier, I give you all permission to copy my Youtube video descriptions for ChickasaurusGL word for word on to their own articles (which we can modify to remove things like "in this video"), as long as you add an afttribution notice in <!– –> tags but only for use Glitch City Wiki articles.
Note: We are not allowed to copy from Bulbapedia as these articles are from multiple authors and we do not have their permission. Even though Bulbapedia:Copyrights doesn't specifically say you can't if you 'attribute it to them', it's not nice and they might be following the CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 license.
Lists of all glitches:
One task for Project Gotta Document 'Em All is to create 'master lists' for all glitches in a generation. Bulbapedia have already done this to a good degree, and I remember that one of the users of this forum was looking for one.
When creating lists of glitches, it's important to know which glitches are 'stand-alone' (natural glitches) and which glitches require another glitch to work.
For this reason, I suggest we create two sets of glitch lists; for every generation a list of natural glitches by generation (x) and a list of glitch derivatives by generation (x). Thanks to Crystal_ we have a thread for natural glitches in Generation I and I have already listed many of these natural glitches in its own article.
In the past the glitches which require another glitch to work were referred to as "tricks", so depending on Abwayax's decision it may be a good idea to call the glitch derivatives like "old man trick", "Celebi trick" tricks. Regardless, many people call glitch derivatives/tricks "glitches", and two of Bulbapedia's articles for glitch derivatives are "old man glitch" (derivative of the left-facing shore tile glitch) and "Celebi Egg glitch" (derivative of the bad clone glitch).
Conventions:
Previously templates were used for major, miscellaneous glitches, and minor glitches, but echinodermata pointed out that what distinguishes miscellaneous and minor glitches is rather subjective. I think for this reason it may be a good idea to eventually create templates for natural glitches per generation and separate templates for derivatives of a certain glitch.
I suggest natural glitches should have two categories; [[Category:Natural glitches]] and [[Category:Generation (x) natural glitches]] where (x) is the roman numeral generation number (I-VII) and other glitches should have at least one (e.g. [[Category:Generation (x) glitches]]).
Side-note:
Sometimes when creating articles about glitches such as lists, it's nice to use a table. Fortunately there is an online tool that will convert Excel spreadsheets into wiki format, making this normally time-consuming task much easier.
http://tools.wmflabs.org/excel2wiki/