Talk:Locomotives of the North Staffordshire Railway

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@92.24.179.70, MOS:TABLES says tables "can be useful for a variety of content presentations on Wikipedia, but should be used only when appropriate; sometimes the information in a table may be better presented as prose paragraphs or as an embedded list." It does not say tables are always better. As the existing style here was prose, it's up to you to make a case here and get consensus for a change to a table. That is not done by blindly repeating the change when there is opposition to the change. The reasons for my opposition to a table:

As it stands, the table you propose just repeats information already included in the main table. The only unrepeated information is the notes column.
There are only two preserved engines, that doesn't need a table for so few data entries. The argument that there are articles with equal or fewer is more a case for visiting those articles to establish what is the optimal presentation for that article, not grounds for saying this article has to use a table.
Tables can have accessibility issues, which prose doesn't, so for so few entries, prose is a better option.

Nthep (talk) 19:36, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]