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Great work in The Settlers. Congrats :). Rvalles 17:35, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)
Who's to say?--Crestville 18:41, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi, see Talk:List of Warcraft characters. There is no reason whatsoever to have all that information centralized. In a pedia you want information to be linked together and be able to navigate from one article to another, but you do not want every piece of information on the same place (centralization). We have followed this convention of many many fictional characters before. There is no reason to merge this article nor any other article referring to fictional characters. Or do we have all the Harry Potter articles inside list of Harry Potter characters? Please, before you try to be a policeman try to think about the logic that someone followed before working on articles.
I have noticed that you are kinda new to the pedia so let me take a little bit of my time to explain something about consensus...
Firt of, consensus is not a Wikipedia policy and will never be (it goes against the principles of Wikipedia itself). In this case, the "consensus" was to keep the information (although around seven users expressed their opinion to merge it). The consensus of Wikipedia is based on opinions and ideas rather than on scientific research, because of this these opinions are not often for the best of the project. However, many of them are excellent ideas and many of us incorporate them to the pedia when we beleive that they will help the project.
In this case, merging the characters into a single article is not for the best of the project. That alone would set a precedent regarding fictional characters, which if big enough, are given their own article as they deserve it. That is what I have done by splitting the article, what many of us have done in the past, and what some contributors originally did for the Warcraft characters. The only list of characters that I have seen to follow that format is Light Characters in the Wheel of Time series, but I do not know anything about that so I left it how it is for those that are working on them. Since I know about Warcraft I work on them and split them for the best of the project.
It is kinda hard for me to explain, but one of the main principles of information design tells you that you should never force someone to chew on information that they are not looking for. In the pedia we follow the concept of data hiding to some extent, but not completely. For example, in an article about Jesuschrist why should you describe in detail the Virgin Mary and the Twelve apostles? You either follow the convention "Virgin Mary (small description)" or simply link to her through a wiki-link. By having all the information cramped in the same place you force users navigate manually on a same page when looking for information about other characters, instead of providing them with a wiki-link that takes them to other article.
The main reasoning for us at the project to split content is for those users that wish to print the information. What would happen when a user wants to print information about Sylvannas but her information is merged with all the other characters? The user must find which pages on his printer are of Sylvannas alone, and even after doing that he will be printing information about other characters in the same page of Sylvannas. That is what we avoid, that is why we prefer to link information around rather that jamming it in the same place.
—Joseph | Talk 17:51, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)
Hi,
I noticed you'd been working on Man United-related pages and could do with your opinion on something.
The history section was split out of the page last year (I think) but someone then wrote another history section in the main page. Both pages are now well over the recommended maximum size for a Wikipedia article, and it's getting to the stage where I suspect people are editing them without reading them all the way through (which would explain why the Glazer takeover is mentioned twice in Manchester United, in roughly the same amount of detail each time.
So, my idea is to create new pages for different eras in United's history, merge the relevant bits of Alex Ferguson, History of Manchester United and the History section of Manchester United into each new page and put summaries of each new page on Manchester United, with comments asking people not to make the summaries too long. The new articles would have titles like:
I think something like this is necessary to keep the pages manageable, but obviously don't want to make such big changes to other people's work without hearing what people think first. Please let me know what you think, at the Manchester United talk page.
Thanks, Cantthinkofagoodname 11:01, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
Good job expanding the article, if you feel like adding more (particullary on the PC version, as I don't remember playing it at all) go ahead. wS;✉ 13:40, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
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I'm not trying to start another fight, I'm just interested... what led you to the decision to keep this article? Kinitawowi 09:32, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
I have emailed you about something that others have been preventing people from telling you. If you do not receive it, please respond on your talk page. Dagedzil 08:54, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
I've removed the pop culture section in the Enola Gay article again. There are multiple issues with the pop culture section and the OMD reference. The song does have a implied reference to the Enola Gay mission, but again I believe there needs to be sourcing involved in adding the reference. The other part of the problem is that the pop culture section is that because there has been no criteria for adding entires, it has been abused by users adding such trivial things as cheat codes. At one point the pop culture section had so many things in it that it started to detract from the quality of the article itself.
I hope you'll take these things into consideration and read what has been said on the talk page rather then reverting it back. Thanks.. Davidpdx 09:57, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
I think we can now have a Now 68 page as according to the now forums, we now have a release date (19th November) and a cover design, what do you think? I'll upload the cover design if you agree regardsICryOverSpiltMilk 09:46, 20 September 2007 (UTC) These another thing that bothers me, how come US Now 26 is allowed with predictions and our Now 68 isn't?
Very amusing, but please don't disrupt Wikipedia just to make a point - someone has to clear up afterwards. --McGeddon (talk) 11:43, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
I read your summaries. >:).--KerotanLeave Me a Message Have a nice day :) 00:45, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
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