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Maybe you're not looking at the right MOS (WP:TABLES). It says that sometimes a list is better as a list than a table (like when there's more detail). It also says, ""Prose is preferred in articles as prose allows the presentation of detail and clarification of context, in a way that a table may not."" And if you look at the examples given, none has more than 2 or 3 lines in a field.   "