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Back in 2015, a user named {{user|Dinodomain}} started creating categories for each | Back in 2015, a user named {{user|Dinodomain}} started creating categories for each year of [[SSBMRank]] on their own imperative, and outside of mild questioning on his [[User talk:Dinodomain#Hey...|talk page]], other users just started following suit with creating categories for the other yearly global rankings whenever those rankings got made, with no one really challenging their existence. Me and several other users however, have expressed in the Discord server for the past couple years how these categories should be purged. There are two main problems with these categories: | ||
1: For the purpose of cataloging the players that made each ranking, they're useless; you can simply just go on the actual article for the ranking to see the players who were on that particular ranking, and not only will it be more neatly organized, you'll also get additional important information that won't be displayed on the category page, such as the player's ranking and the character(s) they used for that ranking period. | 1: For the purpose of cataloging the players that made each ranking, they're useless; you can simply just go on the actual article for the ranking to see the players who were on that particular ranking, and not only will it be more neatly organized, you'll also get additional important information that won't be displayed on the category page, such as the player's ranking and the character(s) they used for that ranking period. | ||
2: These categories just serve to cause massive category bloat; top level and near top level players will often make several iterations of these rankings, so such players will often have their categories bloat to eyesore levels, the majority of that bloat being these mostly redundant categories. For example, {{Sm|Dabuz}} currently has 25 categories, yet 11 of these categories are for specific | 2: These categories just serve to cause massive category bloat; top level and near top level players will often make several iterations of these rankings, so such players will often have their categories bloat to eyesore levels, the majority of that bloat being these mostly redundant categories. For example, {{Sm|Dabuz}} currently has 25 categories, yet 11 of these categories are for specific year rankings. Or {{Sm|Mango}}, who has a whopping 33 categories, yet these make up 14 of those categories. | ||
A single category for each type of ranking (e.g. one for [[SSBMRank]], one for [[PGR]], one for [[UltRank]], etc.) would suffice, showing all the players that once made that ranking, providing useful cataloging information that isn't immediately accessible elsewhere without bloating each player's categories with several redundant ones. The only other type of useful categories with these rankings would be for players that once surpassed a certain threshold on the respective rankings (e.g. "SSBMRank Top 10", "UltRank top 50", etc.), since it could be useful to catalog players who were once "Top X in the world according to this ranking", and would be of clear interest to readers, while also not necessarily being immediately accessible information elsewhere. If those ranking threshold categories are added, they would carry the caveat of "on smasher articles, only include the category of the highest threshold the player has surpassed on that ranking" (so for example if a player was once top 10, don't include any of the other lower threshold ranking categories for them, as it would be redundant). | A single category for each type of ranking (e.g. one for [[SSBMRank]], one for [[PGR]], one for [[UltRank]], etc.) would suffice, showing all the players that once made that ranking, providing useful cataloging information that isn't immediately accessible elsewhere without bloating each player's categories with several redundant ones. The only other type of useful categories with these rankings would be for players that once surpassed a certain threshold on the respective rankings (e.g. "SSBMRank Top 10", "UltRank top 50", etc.), since it could be useful to catalog players who were once "Top X in the world according to this ranking", and would be of clear interest to readers, while also not necessarily being immediately accessible information elsewhere. If those ranking threshold categories are added, they would carry the caveat of "on smasher articles, only include the category of the highest threshold the player has surpassed on that ranking" (so for example if a player was once top 10, don't include any of the other lower threshold ranking categories for them, as it would be redundant). | ||
The only benefit I see of the current setup with the specific | The only benefit I see of the current setup with the specific year rankings categories is that they do let you know what years the player made that particular ranking on, when you would otherwise need to manually check each ranking to see if they were ranked that specific year. However, this information would be much more effectively shown by creating a new "Rankings" section on smasher articles, which would show each ranking the player ever made. This would be immensely better than the current setup with the categories for the following reasons: | ||
1: It would be much neater than a big blob of categories at the bottom of the page. | 1: It would be much neater than a big blob of categories at the bottom of the page. | ||
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#'''Support''', nothing more to add. [[User:Rdrfc|Rdrfc]] ([[User talk:Rdrfc|talk]]) 13:37, April 11, 2023 (EDT) | #'''Support''', nothing more to add. [[User:Rdrfc|Rdrfc]] ([[User talk:Rdrfc|talk]]) 13:37, April 11, 2023 (EDT) | ||
==Remove specific | ==Remove specific year categories and add the respective threshold-based categories== | ||
#''...'' | #''...'' | ||
