Thread:JAlbor/@comment-25301601-20131231014037/@comment-4814368-20131231195738

I did, in fact, respond to your arguments here: http://supersmashbros.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:42462#5. But I can do it again here:

TheSMASHFan wrote: 1. How does that "improve people"? 2. Having it in alphabetical order will make it much easier to find for people who are just looking for a list of characters and not wanting to see a gallery of every character. Space will not be saved once all the characters are revealed. 3. It doesn't matter if the pictures already on other pages on the site. 4. That's an extreme minority of readers who don't know who all the characters are by looking at the pictures, and that's extremely situational. Smashpedia doesn't need to cater to an extreme minority, and we want to serve the overwhelming majority.

1. I've found through experience that visual design catches peoples eyes better than walls of texts, which potentially increases the amount of people who stay on the community and actively contribute. And in fact, there's plenty of evidence to suggest good visual design and instant readability is key to first impressions. A wall of text is bland, everything looks the same, nothing stands out. Image portals are the best of both worlds, they free up space AND they catch a user's eye.

2. As I already mentioned, the character portal can ALSO be put in alphabetical order. You also create a hypothetical person who is "just looking for a list" and "not wanting to see a gallery". The gallery is functionally a list, albeit one that moves horizontally instead of vertically. The images are tiny as well and shouldn't affect load times significantly. Even so, they could just click on the one they want immediately. And yes, in fact, vertical space will be saved with a horizontal format.

3. Pictures can be on more than one page. They are on the game page for navigation and design reasons, they are on the other pages in full so people can click and expand them.

4. I don't think the minority is as extreme as you think. Believe it or not, but the vast majority of gamers, many of those thousands of people who visit this community but never edit, are not as familiar with the characters as you or I. Regardless, I actually DO think we should cater to minorities if the majority are not inconvenience by a decision. You are still the only one I have heard from that does not like the visual portal. I haven't heard any good arguments to suggest it will make it harder to explore the site, just that you don't like it because you believe wikia pages should be one way and not another.