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Also known as "{{s|wikipedia|peacock terms}}", puffery refers to the use of words that overly promote or disparage a subject without summarising verifiable information. Terms that promote puffery, such as great, fantastic, awesome, incredible, landmark, best, worst, | Also known as "{{s|wikipedia|peacock terms}}", puffery refers to the use of words that overly promote or disparage a subject without summarising verifiable information. Terms that promote puffery, such as great, fantastic, awesome, incredible, landmark, best, worst, horrible, dreadful, appalling, awful, or gimmicky should ideally be replaced either with facts or attribution to demonstrate a point. For instance, simply stating {{SSB4|Cloud}} has a horrible recovery is unacceptable; stating Cloud's recovery is poor as a result of several "blind spots" in [[Climhazzard]]'s ledge [[sweetspot]]s and its low vertical and horizontal distances would be acceptable. | ||
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