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== Changes to the Skill parameter == | == Changes to the Skill parameter == | ||
Since this infobox's inception in ye olden days of SmashWiki, there has been a Skill parameter, with the acceptable entries being "Professional" and variations of it. However, the usage of "Professional" seems to be a relic from the MLG era, where MLG would call its qualifying players "Professionals" | Since this infobox's inception in ye olden days of SmashWiki, there has been a Skill parameter, with the acceptable entries being "Professional" and variations of it. However, the usage of "Professional" seems to be a relic from the MLG era, where MLG would call its qualifying players "Professionals", which was picked up by the Smash players at the time, and we have since been stuck using terminology that has never really sat right: | ||
*While "Professional" can be used to refer to someone who is just good at something, the more prominent definition is to refer to someone who has made a legitimate career out of a thing. There are very few Smash players who could legitimately be called "Professionals" in that regard, and while the terminology doesn't need to be strictly used that way, we repeatedly have had issues where people have taken the Skill parameter to mean that rather than just "Professional means good player", as well as some mockery over the wiki's usage of "Professional". | *While "Professional" can be used to refer to someone who is just good at something, the more prominent definition is to refer to someone who has made a legitimate career out of a thing. There are very few Smash players who could legitimately be called "Professionals" in that regard, and while the terminology doesn't need to be strictly used that way, we repeatedly have had issues where people have taken the Skill parameter to mean that rather than just "Professional means good player", as well as some mockery over the wiki's usage of "Professional". | ||