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:::I'm not 100% sure what the change should be, but '''the Battlefield symbol just does an awful job as a placeholder.''' Something needs to change, because using an '''indescribable symbol that doesn't fit in with the other symbols that was used on a legal stage in one game''' is causing confusion, not just for the original instigators, but several IP's and new users (me included) after this discussion originally closed. As much as I dislike the ellipsis, its usage in Ultimate is definitely known outside of this wiki. '''I would much rather deal with a clearly known symbol on other Smash fan sites that looks like misplaced text instead of a completely unrecognizable symbol that that can't even be described properly'''. [[Special:Contributions/72.203.118.154|72.203.118.154]] 05:30, February 18, 2020 (EST) | :::I'm not 100% sure what the change should be, but '''the Battlefield symbol just does an awful job as a placeholder.''' Something needs to change, because using an '''indescribable symbol that doesn't fit in with the other symbols that was used on a legal stage in one game''' is causing confusion, not just for the original instigators, but several IP's and new users (me included) after this discussion originally closed. As much as I dislike the ellipsis, its usage in Ultimate is definitely known outside of this wiki. '''I would much rather deal with a clearly known symbol on other Smash fan sites that looks like misplaced text instead of a completely unrecognizable symbol that that can't even be described properly'''. [[Special:Contributions/72.203.118.154|72.203.118.154]] 05:30, February 18, 2020 (EST) | ||
::::For what is worth, while I see the points about the ellipsis potentially being confusing and not recognizable as a series symbol, I think that they are way overblown. Any user that has browsed the wiki even for a short amount of time will recognize that it is used as a symbol, due to being a gray .svg and being in the same place as other series symbol. Not fitting with the other symbols is 1. subjective, as some other symbols like Mega Man's or Miiverse's are also quite generic looking 2. something that also applies to SSBM Battlefield's symbol, even more so because of how abstract it is 3. arguably the point because it instantly signals that the character in question belongs to a minor series, something that the currently used symbol fails to convey as clearly due to its aforementioned abstractness, compared to the ellipsis which have an universally recognized meaning as a symbol. There is also a big chance that an user is already familiar with the ellipsis symbol through the game itself or other community content (such as Youtube OST uploads) using it in a similar context. | |||
About the Wii U custom stages symbol, it might convey the meaning of "miscellaneous" more clearly, but it still is a symbol intended by the developers for something else, and not used by anyone in the community except potentially us for this context; everyone else in the community does what the developers themselves do: using either blank spaces or the ''Ultimate'' ellipsis to signal minor series. | |||
--[[User:Rdrfc|Rdrfc]] ([[User talk:Rdrfc|talk]]) 11:56, February 18, 2020 (EST) | |||