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With that said, I'm gonna propose ending the practice of listing off contextless wins in the intros of Smasher articles, and removing all wins lists we come across on already existing articles. Instead, significant wins should be explained with their proper context in a player's history section, or if the player doesn't have one and an editor doesn't want to bother making them one as is the case most of the time, at least make the effort to explain the player's most significant wins in their intro (which will likely be the player's best result or two anyway, that would also help give more context to their best result listing in their infobox). Another idea is to give players a H2H records section or subpage that has a table of their win/loss records against other notable players, where you can in effect list off their notable wins but also let readers know how many times they lost too, which would at least expose those aforementioned lopsided losing records and 1-0 records. But that would take a lot of work and I understand people likely not wanting to put in the effort for that, so just at least explaining a player's biggest wins instead of listing off wins with no context is improvement enough. <span style="font-family:Edwardian Script ITC; font-size:12pt">[[User:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Omega</span>]] [[User talk:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Tyrant</span>]]</span> [[File: TyranitarMS.png ]] 23:45, March 28, 2024 (EDT)
With that said, I'm gonna propose ending the practice of listing off contextless wins in the intros of Smasher articles, and removing all wins lists we come across on already existing articles. Instead, significant wins should be explained with their proper context in a player's history section, or if the player doesn't have one and an editor doesn't want to bother making them one as is the case most of the time, at least make the effort to explain the player's most significant wins in their intro (which will likely be the player's best result or two anyway, that would also help give more context to their best result listing in their infobox). Another idea is to give players a H2H records section or subpage that has a table of their win/loss records against other notable players, where you can in effect list off their notable wins but also let readers know how many times they lost too, which would at least expose those aforementioned lopsided losing records and 1-0 records. But that would take a lot of work and I understand people likely not wanting to put in the effort for that, so just at least explaining a player's biggest wins instead of listing off wins with no context is improvement enough. <span style="font-family:Edwardian Script ITC; font-size:12pt">[[User:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Omega</span>]] [[User talk:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Tyrant</span>]]</span> [[File: TyranitarMS.png ]] 23:45, March 28, 2024 (EDT)
:'''Oppose''', I think that win lists help easily reflect some of a player's most notable accomplishments, and as long as the wins are legit (not including secondary sandbagging and such) I think they are totally fine to have in the intro. [[User:Ninja1167|Ninja1167]] ([[User talk:Ninja1167|talk]]) 00:21, March 29, 2024 (EDT)
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