Forum:Attempt to fix the Notable Players sections number 2: Difference between revisions

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The wiki has known this to be a problem for several years now, yet the notable players sections has continue to persist in being bloated in the character articles for every game (except for Brawl's, guess that's one upside of few people still caring about that game), and it has become quite the overwhelming problem to manage. These sections were originally made with the intention of noting each characters' "most historically significant players", not as a place to throw every pretty noteworthy player on there, however this clearly was not achieved. I blame a part of this for how poorly this idea is communicated through the title of these sections (you just need to be considered "notable" to have an article at all, how does that differ from being "notable" for these sections?), the fact the guidelines for these sections are buried in our [[SW:NOTE#Notable player guidelines|general notability policy page]] and thus most random part-time editors responsible for the bloat will never see it, and the lack of a strict limit that allows the "line" for what's acceptable to be pushed farther and farther. So I propose implementing the following:

# Sounds good to me. [[User:Zeckemyro|Hitbox Enthusiast Zeck]] ([[User talk:Zeckemyro|talk]]) 15:49, March 24, 2021 (EDT)

#'''I like most of it'''. Though I'm still somewhat wary on the Wi-Fi results I'm honestly not too against adding in notable online players to the section after discussion on Discord. [[User:Cookies and Creme|<span style="font-family: Georgia;color: black;">Cookies</span>]][[File:CnC Signature.png|20px]][[User talk:Cookies and Creme|<span style="font-family: Georgia; color: black;">Creme</span>]] 16:13, March 24, 2021 (EDT)

===Oppose===

I brought this up on the Discord earlier. In an effort to appease both sides of the clone argument, why not just create specific templates that combine both characters' players while denoting which of them they use through head icons. I've created a mockup of this [[User:SenorMexicano/Notable player concept|here]]. Most if not all of the community sees most clones as the same character with the exceptions of certain pairs like Roy and Chrom. I don't understand why we'd go out of our way to separate them. Separating players would have the potential to create a very lopsided list of players in cases where a character is favored upon by higher tier players over the other. [[User:SenorMexicano|<span style="color:#850FFA; text-shadow: 0px 0px 3px green">'''Señor'''</span> <span style="color:#850FFA;text-shadow:0px 0px 3px green">'''Mexicano'''</span>]] ''[[User talk:SenorMexicano|<span style="color:lightpurple;text-shadow:0px 0px 2px lightgreen">(talk)</span>]]'' 09:27, March 25, 2021 (EDT)

:I feel like this is the best compromise and I honestly like that idea as well. [[User:Cookies and Creme|<span style="font-family: Georgia;color: black;">Cookies</span>]][[File:CnC Signature.png|20px]][[User talk:Cookies and Creme|<span style="font-family: Georgia; color: black;">Creme</span>]] 16:06, March 25, 2021 (EDT)