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No trivia about discrepancies with home games. The Smash appearance doesn't have to be copied directly from the home game, and sometimes, Sakurai doesn't make it the same as it was in the original. <font face="sand">''[[User:Qwerty|<font color="black">Qw</font><font color="003F3F">er</font><font color="005F5F">ty</font>]] ''[[User talk:Qwerty|<font color="005F6F">(t</font><font color="003C6F">al</font><font color="000F7F">k)</font>]]</font> 20:14, 15 September 2014 (EDT) | No trivia about discrepancies with home games. The Smash appearance doesn't have to be copied directly from the home game, and sometimes, Sakurai doesn't make it the same as it was in the original. <font face="sand">''[[User:Qwerty|<font color="black">Qw</font><font color="003F3F">er</font><font color="005F5F">ty</font>]] ''[[User talk:Qwerty|<font color="005F6F">(t</font><font color="003C6F">al</font><font color="000F7F">k)</font>]]</font> 20:14, 15 September 2014 (EDT) | ||
:I disagree with a blanket ban on this. Some such trivia is indeed interesting, such as Peach's ring. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The SMASH-GINEER 22:00, 25 September 2014 (EDT) | :I disagree with a blanket ban on this. Some such trivia is indeed interesting, such as Peach's ring. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The SMASH-GINEER 22:00, 25 September 2014 (EDT) | ||
== Awkwardly worded trivia == | |||
Can we have a guideline (not necessarily an outright ban) against trivia that cannot be phrased in an easily comprehended manner? Probably as a specific note under complexity. Basically, if there's no way to phrase the trivia to make it make sense, it doesn't matter how interesting it is. I've definitely removed trivia for this before only to have it added back, but not recently, so here is an example of a point that hasn't been added back yet: | |||
*Roy and [[Banjo]] are the only fighters to be playable in a game prior to the one they debuted in within their series. | |||
Maybe it's just me, but it took me six or seven reads to figure out what the heck this is trying to say (and I just realized that I still didn't completely understand it when I removed it -- though it still isn't completely true thanks to [[Byleth]]). There are so many vague parts ("a game"; "the one"; "their series") that my brain just gets completely lost. Any way to make it make a lick of sense would just make it really long or require specificity in a manner that is contradictory to the complexity section of this policy (by specifying that Roy was playable in Melee before Binding Blade and Banjo was playable in Diddy Kong Racing before Banjo-Kazooie). | |||
Is it an interesting trivia point? I'm not necessarily enthralled by it, but I can see the argument. But is it really worth having if the average reader will have no idea what it's saying or, otherwise, it's just an awkwardly long or specific trivia point? No, not really. [[User:TheNuttyOne|TheNuttyOne]] 15:18, July 21, 2020 (EDT) | |||