Talk:Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

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I don't know how to edit the table now that everywhere there are template programming.

Poland has already qualified, as there is a match coming between Iran and Egypt, both teams need to win it to overtake Poland and obviously only one can win. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Psubrat2000 (talk • contribs) 19:48, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It is customary to write the winner on the left or the top, and the loser on the right or the bottom. This makes it MUCH easier to read and be legible because this is the way that we read in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, German, Hindi, Italian, and so forth. Doing otherwise makes it harder to read and less legible, and it makes things look like Chinese, Arabic, and so forth. I just want you to make it so it is easy to tell who the winner was AT A GLANCE.

It matters not which team was higher seeded, or higher ranked, or the home team (no home teams here, except possibly Brazil), or alphabetical order, or had the better won-loss record before the game.

We always do it the way that I described in North American English, which does have the majority of the people who speak English as their native language: e.g. the USA, most of Canada, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Belize, and so forth.24.206.243.172 (talk) 01:43, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]