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I've been noticing that on some pages that users have been adding to have a lot of redundant info that is already listed on the existing page. While I do appreciate the work people are putting in, I do not feel that listing the same information two times helps the site. IMHO, it makes it look a little silly. Not sure how others look at it, but I am very much against redundant information displayed. Thoughts?
A direct reference might help. I can't say I'm exactly 100% sure what you mean.
If you mean stuff like what I did for the Samurai abilities, I mostly added the information onto those pages in order to avoid dead links. The stuff that's there now is pretty much just the game description.
I made those pages that way as to avoid having too many dead links on the main job page. My plan is to add equipment and spells that enhance the abilities in the future. Kind of like what I did with Store TP.
If you mean stuff like what I did for the Samurai abilities, I mostly added the information onto those pages in order to avoid dead links. The stuff that's there now is pretty much just the game description.
I made those pages that way as to avoid having too many dead links on the main job page. My plan is to add equipment and spells that enhance the abilities in the future. Kind of like what I did with Store TP.
heh just a guess but Pikko might be talking about what I did under some NPCs.
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You guys can remove that if you want, but for some of them the information isn't complete on the existing page Clicky
Then there are the NPCs that imo are done perfectly: Clicky
This one has all the prices, and it has the region that the merchant belongs to.
I only put the description under each NPC to maintain consistency, if I could have edited those pages I would have done that over repeating information. And yes I do agree that it does look silly, although I think that having incomplete/inconsistent info on a page that we can't edit is also silly.
But yes I was hoping that someone would see that, and would question why it was there and hopefully fill in the already existing page to make them all complete and consistent with each other. :)
Clicky
You guys can remove that if you want, but for some of them the information isn't complete on the existing page Clicky
Then there are the NPCs that imo are done perfectly: Clicky
This one has all the prices, and it has the region that the merchant belongs to.
I only put the description under each NPC to maintain consistency, if I could have edited those pages I would have done that over repeating information. And yes I do agree that it does look silly, although I think that having incomplete/inconsistent info on a page that we can't edit is also silly.
But yes I was hoping that someone would see that, and would question why it was there and hopefully fill in the already existing page to make them all complete and consistent with each other. :)
Yes, I was referring to those pages Kriptex. I think on pages where you find all the information to be intact, you can simply leave it out. For those that need fixing, then I can see putting the info there.
Having looked at the links (which I assume have been "fixed" and don't serve as examples any more,) I have no idea what this thread is about, specifically. Are people writing the same thing twice on the same Wiki entry, or similiar things on two different entries?
If it's the latter, then I have to admit to being guilty as well, to an extent. There's a lot of information up on WoW that you can find on two or more pages simply because it was pertinent enough to both to not (IMHO) justify linking to an entirely new page. For example, although I have a complete weapon proficiency table on the weapons article, I will include class proficiencies on their respective class pages. My general rule of thumb is that anything that would take less than a full paragraph is worth explaining there rather than linking. (Putting a link within that text if there's more to be said is good, though.)
I may go a bit far, though, considering many times when a link to a sub-section of an existing article would do, I create a short blurb article to indicate specific terms. Talent Points is a potentially superfluous article because there is already a short header for it in the Talents article. I think part of this stems from an insecurity in using # tags, and part from a desire to be complete and have someone find information on exactly what they want without jumping through any hoops.
If it's the latter, then I have to admit to being guilty as well, to an extent. There's a lot of information up on WoW that you can find on two or more pages simply because it was pertinent enough to both to not (IMHO) justify linking to an entirely new page. For example, although I have a complete weapon proficiency table on the weapons article, I will include class proficiencies on their respective class pages. My general rule of thumb is that anything that would take less than a full paragraph is worth explaining there rather than linking. (Putting a link within that text if there's more to be said is good, though.)
I may go a bit far, though, considering many times when a link to a sub-section of an existing article would do, I create a short blurb article to indicate specific terms. Talent Points is a potentially superfluous article because there is already a short header for it in the Talents article. I think part of this stems from an insecurity in using # tags, and part from a desire to be complete and have someone find information on exactly what they want without jumping through any hoops.
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