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 Ok, badly written essay over. [[User:Ganonmew|<span style="color: green;">'''Ganonmew'''</span>]], [[User talk:Ganonmew|<span style="color: green;">'''The Evil Clone'''</span>]] 18:56, 2 July 2017 (EDT)
+:There is absolutely nothing wrong with your essay, and I actually appreciate someone going through the effort of telling me what I have done wrong.
+:Ultimately, the point of this proposal was to expand on Miles's initial idea of wanting to discourage certain words and phrases from the mainspace. However, Miles missed the mark and only said not to use the words without explaining ''why'', so I tried to fix that with both this proposal and my secondary proposal, Neutral Point of View.
+:Puffery was ultimately the hardest part of the proposal to write, and I'm not surprised to receive some questions about it. I'll try my best to explain:
+::''For example, in the section "puffery", you are mostly right that we should explain standpoints instead of over-emphasizing them: however, we shouldn't sugarcoat it either.''
+:My intention with puffery was that it should cut both ways; we should not over-emphasise in either direction, whether singing praises to the high heavens or damning complaints to the depths of Hell. Maybe I'm just a negative bastard, but I could only really think of words that over-emphasised on the "good" side rather than the "bad" side. I'll try to see if I can rectify this, because if you brought it up first, then it's potentially something that a lot of people are going to miss.
+:For clichés, that was partially personal preference (I ''really'' don't like such expressions in SmashWiki), but I still feel that it should stay. As I said in the proposal's main text, it can misrepresent the scope of a viewpoint. While Mario may be described as a "jack-of-all-trades", it can imply to some readers that all aspects of Mario are average, when in reality, it might not be such a easy call; his special moves in ''Brawl'' would generally be considered below-average by most smashers due to FLUDD being so garbage, and in ''Melee'', his falling and air speeds are actually below-average as well. As for misunderstandings, I feel SmashWiki's goal should be avoid presenting any confusing statements in the first place; I know we shouldn't assume viewers are morons, but at the same time, any sort of ambiguity should be avoided.
+:For profanities, I put mainspace. Userspace is free-range; after all, I have a page which uses the word "fuck" or some variant of it at least 77 times.
+:--- <font face="Pristina"><font size="3">''[[User:Monsieur Crow|Monsieur]] [[User_talk:Monsieur Crow|Crow]], Author Extraordinaire''</font></font>,  19:22, 2 July 2017 (EDT)
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