Talk:Oklahoma Power Rankings

Hello I am transgender and I consider some of my old tags to be dead names, and keeping them up on the site against my will would be wrong. Can an exception be made to the general rule of using the tag that was used at the time of publication due to the circumstances? -Sisterhood 68.12.225.35 07:00, March 9, 2022 (EST)
 * I can't guarantee you a speedy resolution to this, but we've spoken to the admins, who are now currently discussing the issue. Please watch this space for more info. Black Vulpine  the 🦊Furry🐺.  Furries make the internets go! :3  07:39, March 9, 2022 (EST)
 * Here is the conundrum. If we were to "update" the listings of old tags in every old PR, tourney result, etc. documented here, it will just serve to confuse readers that check the PR sources and brackets when they don't see the new tag anywhere. There's then significant logistical issues to this, we have thousands of smashers documented here and tag changes happen frequently across them, trying to keep up with that and "update" old tag listings isn't realistic, and if a longtime top player decided to change their tag, there would be literally hundreds of pages to go through (if Mew2king for example changed his tag and wanted to scrub all mentions of M2K off the wiki, there's currently 724 content pages his tag shows up on, would anyone really be up for doing that?). Tag changes are also volatile, we recently had an incident where Squerk, who had changed his tag to "tyler", sent someone here to start shit with us because we wouldn't change all old listings of Squerk on the wiki to "tyler"... only for him to change his tag back to Squerk a month later anyway. And it's not work that can be relegated to bots either, when multiple people can have the same tag, tags will often show up on wiki for other usages, and bots can't discern the context of which a tag is used (Light for example shows up on 1530 content pages). Sure doing this for just you specifically wouldn't be much work, but I don't want to start introducing exceptions and being inconsistent with this, that will just open up for other people to argue "you did this for them, why not me?", nor open us up to a top player doing the same and then being faced with scouring through hundreds of pages to scrub any mention of their old tag, all for something that will just worsen the readers' experience.


 * Plus I ultimately don't see what scrubbing old tags off the wiki really achieves, the old tags will still be plainly visible in PR images or just a click away in a bracket link, and any suggestion that we don't post nor link PR and tournament sources that contain the disowned tags is completely unnegotiable. When it comes to the conflict between appeasing the players being documented and having information as complete as possible in the best interest of readers, a wiki will prioritize the latter, with the only appeasements we made being things that really have no relevance to a player's Smash history (such as removing personal information that a reader doesn't need to know to understand the full extent of a player's Smash career). Omega   Tyrant  [[Image: TyranitarMS.png ]] 18:46, March 12, 2022 (EST)