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Unanimous vote

Is Zach's unanimous vote-out perhaps worthy of a footnote beneath 'Voting History' for this page? Or does that lean too far into trivia? ASpacemanFalls (talk) 19:17, 13 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Seems trivial to me. Bgsu98 (talk) 02:50, 14 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Article is unsourced, Jackson was removed not evacuated

Each section needs some sources. Also, Jackson wasn't evacuated for a current medical condition, he was "removed" because the producers couldn't take the chance that going off lithium might cause serious side affects. I sourced this, but we need many more sources. Fyunck(click) (talk) 06:52, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the point about Jackson's removal, but if you look at many other "Episodes" sections in Survivor season articles, you'll find that many of them have little to no sources aside from the ratings/viewers and such. To cite sources for every little detail that happens in the episode (e.g. John wanted to vote out Amy) seems absurd to me and makes the article more difficult to navigate when one is trying to make a constructive edit. Larger-scale events (such as Jackson's removal) would be good to have a source since it was covered more in-depth by multiple outlets. Just my two cents. 50.232.92.83 (talk) 10:58, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You might not need it for "every little detail" but we need a source for each section otherwise no one knows whether it's true. It could be made up. Even if the source is a link to the episode itself it would greatly help, but we can't just go on faith. Fyunck(click) (talk) 19:39, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

According to MOS:TVPLOT: “Plot summaries, and other aspects of a program's content… may be sourced from the works themselves.” Bgsu98 (talk) 19:48, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

So even a link to the episode itself should suffice. But as we saw, there was a clear error because we had no source. Fyunck(click) (talk) 20:32, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What was the “clear error”? Bgsu98 (talk) 20:51, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The item about the lithium was completely wrong and the fact they were removed, not evacuated. That has been corrected because we had a source. Fyunck(click) (talk) 21:28, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That’s not a “clear error”; that’s a disagreement about phrasing. A clear error would be the wrong person listed as being voted out, incorrect votes on the results table, the wrong tribes listed as winning challenges, etc. Bgsu98 (talk) 22:03, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That was a 100% clear sentence error. He was taken out because they couldn't take a chance on him getting ill. He wasn't taken out because he was ill. It was really wrong and was corrected. Just as bad, if not worse, than an incorrect vote. If it was only "Removed" or "Evacuated", that would be a disagreement on phrasing. But that was only part of the problem. Fyunck(click) (talk) 22:34, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Persistent Vandalism

There is persistent vandalism on the voting charts. Recommend locking the article as semi-protected to prevent inappropriate edits from unregistered users. Bgsu98 (talk) 03:28, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Why are colors being removed?

Tribe colors have been used since the beginning. We can't use only color to determine an attribute but in this case we aren't since the tribe name is also present. Fyunck(click) (talk) 05:57, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Talk:Survivor: Africa § New table layout and Talk:Survivor: Cook Islands/GA1 for discussion and can be discuss there. ApprenticeWiki ^work 06:30, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

And no one has has said why over there. Fyunck(click) (talk) 06:40, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

And heck... we could add border colors to help out or change the shades of color to something softer (while keeping the basic orange, green, and blue). We don't want to make things worse for those not vision-challenged either. There must be some middle ground other than removing an important attribute of the tribe that helps readers quickly discern what tribe diminished the quickest. Fyunck(click) (talk) 09:54, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's not even just the colors that are being removed but one person is completely redoing the table formats to make it best accessible for them. Subjectively speaking, they aren't really taking into account how others perceive the tables or their accessibility. Where was the vote on this? Because I don't agree with the new layouts at all, they're pretty terrible, inaccessible and among the worst changes I've seen on Wikipedia. I understand the colors violate the policy and those can be changed but we should reach a consensus on the tables as a collective, not by one person who just started watching Survivor and found it difficult to understand. Miss HollyJ (talk) 22:09, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]