Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-4748628-20190419192503/@comment-27984457-20190421052041

Gamedezyner wrote: Julia Finitevus wrote: It's kind of ridiculous to make us make subpages for short stories. I hardly see how it's ridiculous to say you should have an article that outlines your story, and then host it on a separate page. No other fandom does it the way we do. Go to any other fan wiki and you'll see articles about specific episodes of a TV show, movie, book, or other, and they will have a description about what happens in it. What they won't have, however, is the entire content of the episode.

Many fandoms have links to where you can find said content, though. My personal belief is that this content shouldn't even be on the wiki in the first place, but since it makes up most of the activity here, a good compromise is a simple "Click here to read the story" option, where the actual story is on a page one layer deep. Have you seen how big the summary format can get sometimes? It's easily on the level of a fanfiction that was written straight up. Compare A Different Kind of Normal and any given section from Dimitri Chronicles: Flames of Courage, the two are pretty much the same length despite different formats.

So if they weren't here, what exactly would be here? OCs? There's an entire wiki for that. Fan games and roleplays? The pages are just as big as the fanfiction pages. I really don't understand what you're getting at here. Gamedezyner wrote: I would consider lack of consistency between pages to be a flaw.

Even if these changes were put in place, it isn't like someone's going to go deleting short stories because of this. If anything, someone would just move the content to a subpage for you.

There is a fairly heavy support for making things consistent when it comes to roleplays and fanfiction, since right now there is almost zero consistency with how those types of pages are handled. It's a fanon wiki. Everyone is going to write things how they want to write things. It is not hard to attribute things to users, just look at the history and see who edited it most. Consistency shouldn't be an issue. And besides, most of the time the writers here keep to the Wiki's formal style as far as I can see.

Which is exactly the problem. What is going to be on the main page exactly? The synopsis? Why do you need a synopsis for a short story you can read in less than 30 minutes? Whoa, deja vu.

Gamedezyner wrote: Does anyone actually read? Do you actually think trying to offend us will make us vote for your stuff?