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On a few album articles, I've seen editors reformatting a charts table so that, where previously the two columns (national chart/compiler; peak position) both appeared in what I'd describe as a shade of light grey or off-white, now the left-hand column is rendered with a dark grey background, just like the column headers. In my opinion, this treatment looks over the top and something of an eyesore, because – since the chart names take up far more width than a one-, two- or three-digit chart position – the vast majority of the table becomes a mass of heavy, dark grey.
As an example, the [[Rubber Soul]] article looked [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rubber_Soul&oldid=1046980802#Charts like this] until recently; it now looks [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rubber_Soul&oldid=1048879685#Charts like this]. I think the first example is perfectly clear and easy on the eye. Also, it's not as if tables such as reviewer ratings boxes get the same heavy treatment, eg at [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rubber_Soul&oldid=1046980802#Retrospective_assessment Rubber Soul again]. And I see tables where there are several more rows (in which case, you'd think the row header aspect was far more important) but all are set with the lighter, off-white background: eg [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Summer_Olympics_medal_table#Medal_table 2016 Olympics medal table], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics#Bidding_process 2012 Olympics host city election]. (In addition, I've come across pages like [[Help:
So my question is, is it possible/permissible to still set these two-column charts tables without the heavy background? I guess it's an issue to do with "plainrowheaders"(?), the term used by an editor to explain a [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=All_Things_Must_Pass&diff=1038588755&oldid=1038586559 similar change in another album article]. They cited [[MOS:ACCESS]], although I have to say I couldn't find any reference to plainrowheaders on that MOS page – which is why I've ended up here, in fact. Thanks, [[User:JG66|JG66]] ([[User talk:JG66|talk]]) 01:57, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
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