Talk:Suggestion/@comment-25490263-20150216091405/@comment-861160-20150309151328

As I said before, this really depends on whether you value the educational aspect of the table enough to sacrifice some of its attractiveness as a navigational tool. I don't think the level of thoroughness of the current table is necessary and it detracts from its appeal as a list of ship pages and other links. But clearly we disagree with each other on this point and I don't think we're going to make much difference on that explaining our positions to death.

But, regardless,


 * Mobile users are irrelevant to this debate.  There needs to be complete overhaul of the base design of the template into something that isn't a static wikitable to make the mobile display anything near convenient.  I doubt that 50% statistic applies to our flash-only game wiki anyways.


 * I agree the old page had a lot of problems, and in no way am I implying there should be a return to it.
 * Just because the version I proposed has a number of rows and some empty space doesn't mean it's automatically okay to have a version with even more rows and empty space under every circumstance.


 * If you think options A, B or C are any good at all, then I think you're taking far too much of a top-down view to this issue, rather than looking at it from the perspective of what the template is currently used for, what the common user wants out of it, and how we can improve that.
 * Down the line space is just going to become even more of an issue if we continue to add every ship with a class change to multiple lines.  We can already see the AA-cruiser remodel coming for Maya.  Under the current scheme this means another link for Maya's page, a new list of stats link and a new row.  Under the one I proposed it means a one new list of stats link.


 * My exact point is the template does not need to be 100% clear.  It just needs to have 100% of the correct links so people that aren't clear can find their way to a page that will make things clear, and the vast majority of everyone else can find their way to the page they had in mind.  Both the current version and the one I made achieve this, but one takes more space than the other.