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It almost seems like you’re doing this on purpose, but you keep reverting every edit of the table to make it an upside down format. This may be the regular format for other tables on Wikipedia, but boxing records are supposed to follow the format of their reference boxrec. If you simply looked at any other boxing record of other boxers, e.g. Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder, you would see the correct table format. Joeee777 (talk) 12:41, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings, User:Joeee777. Please join in the discussion about this subject at WikiProject Boxing. Whilst I can see how User:GhostInTheMachine's edits may appear radical, there is actually a solution (sortable tables) which may please everyone. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 19:23, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I am informed that Short Descriptions are a useful way to present list descriptions e.g. Draft:Outline_of_volcanoes#Types_of_volcanoes

I created a Short Description on List_of_people_associated_with_Balliol_College,_Oxford which adds some extra information to the page List of politicians associated with Balliol College, Oxford: namely that there are different categories of politician in the UK and the list also includes non-UK politicians. This is a useful addition, in my view, because it enables annotated links briefly describing the tabulated list. Instead of just being told there are politicians, we are told that there are upper and lower chamber politicians and, perhaps unexpectedly, politicians from other jurisdictions.

All the other Short Descriptions on the page have been allowed. I cannot see any material difference between these entries. Consistency requires allowing Politicans as well. For example, "Historians" links to List of historians and classicists associated with Balliol College, Oxford and uses the short description "Political, social, economic, colonial, modern, early modern, medieval historians and classicists".

Please take another look.

Cheers, John (( User:John Foley — 2025-01-15T13:32:53 ))

Thanks for drawing my attention to this. A Short description should not attempt to define the article's subject – see WP:SDNOTDEF. A Short description exists to clarify which article has been found by a search. So, none is a perfectly valid Short description when the article title is enough. This should always be the case for a list article. If a list article seems to need a Short description other than "none", then consider renaming the article to make the subject matter more clear. — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 10:28, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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