The Sonic News Network is a wiki with the goal of becomming a vast, knowledgeable source about all things related to Sonic the Hedgehog. Anyone can help build and improve it, and we encourage all Sonic fans to do so. It was started 11 September, 2005 and currently contains 20,128 articles. The main page is here.
To Help Out
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Some Standards
- Lists vs Articles - We lean towards articles, because they're more condusive to people adding information, and as this is a Sonic Wiki, it should get pretty specific. If you think it's appropriate, use lists that point to separate articles. But if you can write a page about even the most obscure character, by all means go ahead!
- As for characters, they are allowed to have a seperate article for each continuity. For example, a game article, Bean the Dynamite, and an Archie article, Bean the Dynamite (Archie). This is for two reasons:
- Firstly, some characters have vastly different and mutually contradictory portrayls in particular continuites, so it makes sense for them to be addressed seperately.
- The second is a practical constraint, in that pages which deal with multiple continuities tend to get so long it's a chore to edit or read them. If you find an article that you think could do with being chopped into more digestable pieces, don't hesitate to post a suggestion on the discussion page, or bring it up with one of SNN's sysops.
- Two other random things:
- Measurements (height, weight, etc.) should be in metric with english system in parenthesis
- Ages should be those from Sonic Channel. We seem to have a problem with people being obsessed with changing the ages, and fighting over them.
- We ask that you refrain from foul language, by replacing it with *'s. Each curse (Hell is allowed.) will be counted as a rule violation, and you will recieve a warning template, seen here. Your first three will be taken for granted, and unless extremely harsh, (IE:Telling a user to stfu, gtfo, or offend them in some other way.) will be ignored. However, if you break a rule a fourth time, instead of being warned again, you will be banned. The amount of time the ban will last varies, depending on the broken violations. It most cases, they will be only a week. Repetitive offenders will be indefinately blocked.
- Any offense to another user will result in an automatic ban. It will usually be for one week. If the blocking admin feels you were quite harmful, the ban could last longer than the one week. So, no telling another user to stfu, or gtfo, or attacking them for their personal taste / opinion on a product. It's one thing when you're joking, and we'll let you slide, but if you're intentional, that's it.
- Any sort of fanon that isn't in your userspace will be deleted on sight. So, when making an article for your fanfiction, or fancharacter, or whatever, place it as User:Insert your username here/Name of article. For example: User:SLJCOAAATR 1/E-106 Eta.
- Also, even fanon pages that are kept in userspace must not have canon categories, which includes Category:Characters or any of its subcategories.
- Please give proof of the information you're adding, so that it can verified as true, instead of random gibberish. To add a reference to an article, simply type <ref>[Link to source here.]</ref>
- It is asked that you try to refrain from using fan-sites as references, or external links, since there's a good chance that the information in the link may be inaccurate. There are some cases where a fan-site could be allowed. But, before pulling a daring stunt, ask on of our admins if they think the said site can be used in an article. The same applies to YouTube, FaceBook, DailyMotion, MySpace, and others of the variation.
- Information about rumors is despised by those who come here for the accurate, reliable information that we should have. So do us a favor, and don't go all willy-nilly, telling us that your favorite fan-site, SonicRetardly.Net says that Mighty the Armadillo is getting his own tv series, and that the rumor has been thrown into reliable sources under 'Rumor:' so it must be true. IT ISN'T. Keep rumors out, or we'll get some R-R-R-R-ROID RAGE on you.
- Correct grammer. How hard is it to use correct grammer? You know, using too when saying 'Amy Rose wanted to fight too!', not to, or two. Text talk will make our admins become baboons. We'll deal with it on user-pages, and forums, but if you seep your text talk into articles, OH HO HO. Don't even get me started. Just don't do it. If you're un-sure how to spell something, ask another user for help. They'll help you.
- At the moment, we forbid non-Sonic articles. This goes for Mario, Luigi, Fox McCloud, Pikachu, Donkey Kong, Ristar, etc. This policy will change in due time, while get things straight. But for now, anyone who creates an article for these holligans, is getting teh banzors (In translation: You'll get banned.)
All articles (about Sonic of course) are authorized, and policy pretty much boils down to "Go at it as you see fit," and remember the Wikipedia motto, Be Bold.
Affiliates
We are affiliated with the Sega Wiki and Wikia Gaming, as well as several others. For more information, please see Sonic News Network:Affiliates.