Thread:Wikiwalker11291/@comment-6697950-20161021140516/@comment-6697950-20161022175754

Currently, we've phased out slideshows for tables. Slideshows don't look that aesthetical alongside large lists. The images only appear next to the first two or three entries, and the rest are left without any illustrations, so it looks kinda messy. On the other hand, tables allow us to display images next to the respective entry for all the entries and looks more neat in general. That's why slideshow use has been reduced solely to appearance sections where they may still be beneficial. That's also why I undid your edit on the Weapon List - it was one of those pages that had to be converted to our table format.

Table editing in Visual is... highly unrecommended. The Visual Editor has a thing for breaking tables or something else on a page with tables. Table editing should be done in source mode and the easiest way to create a table from scratch... is to copy the coding from some other page with a table and just make duplicates of the fields where necessary and rename stuff where appropriate. That's how I usually do it to save time :D

It's not some informal rule to use slideshows, but you should refrain from creating new formats on the wiki without discussing a possible new format with other editors. New formatting should be approved by the community before it's added to articles.

As for Akihiko's article, I'm pretty sure that slideshow was created solely to reduce the size of the image. It's too large in the vertical dimension :D