Thread:JAlbor/@comment-25301601-20131231014037/@comment-1061930-20131231214451

Considering I'm a random outsider with no preexisting bias or stakes in any of this, I'm going to have to say that you're being a little too generous, JA. I've looked over the discussions and it looks to me like SMASH hasn't got a single solid argument.

The majority is already against you--of the five people (myself included) that have responded to the idea, you are the only one opposed to it. The visual character portal is aesthetically appealing, user-friendly for those that prefer images over a list of visually similar links, and cannot possibly harm the wiki in any way. When compared to the visual character portal the list of names just looks lazy and bland. Anyone that knows anything about visual design could tell you that. Plus, for people like me that choose their mains in fighting games based largely on looks (Dee Jay, anyone?) the image portal would save them time finding a character page they want to look at if they aren't already familiar with all the characters. You say that a person that doesn't know all of the characters is an extreme minority, but that's assuming that the wiki will only attract Nintendo fans. Smash is a fighting game. People will be coming to look at the wiki from all corners of the FGC and there are plenty like me that choose characters based on looks, who would find the visual character portal to save time immensely.

There is no way you can possibly have a reasonable argument for preventing this change to the page (The keyword being reasonable, of course.)