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 *Using this on mainspace pages is a complete no go; pages about subjects that are no longer relevant are already explicitly written on a historical basis, this template does nothing but permanently marks them with an ugly unnecessary template box and bloats their categories with a pointless meta category.
-*Slapping this on beta images is a complete no go as well. They are not "obsoleted" when the pages they're on is typically about explicitly showing off unused and beta content in the Smash games, and {{t|HighQualityUnavailable}} is far more appropriate when said images are of poor quality, when the purpose of that template is exactly what it says, letting people know we most likely can't get a better quality image of the thing being shown and so don't put the {{t|Lowquality}} on them.
+*Slapping this on beta images is a complete no go as well. They are not "obsoleted" when the pages they're on is typically about explicitly showing off unused/beta content in the Smash games, and {{t|HighQualityUnavailable}} is far more appropriate when said images are of poor quality, when the purpose of that template is exactly what it says, letting people know we most likely can't get a better quality image of the thing being shown and so don't put {{t|Lowquality}} on them.
 *Unused categories and templates that no longer serve a purpose should just be deleted, we don't keep unused categories and templates around that have no possible valid purpose to be used.