Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-146.113.79.217-20160206211428

Now I'm not sure if this is a problem related specifically to Character articles alone but is there a reason why pages like, for example Elluka Clockworker, spend 7 paragraphs detailing a scene that in the article for the novel it came from can be summed up in 1 paragraph?

To be specific I'm talking about the conversation between Elluka and Mariam which ends in her deciding to get some apprentices in Elphegort.

It seems to me that, considering people like Elluka have many, many appearances throughout the series, it makes even less sense to go into massively detailed plot descriptions of relatively unimportant information (do we really need two paragraphs over Elluka jokingly pretending to kill Mariam?) in the character page than to do so in the article for the novel proper. Especially considering that oftentimes this involves relating what characters say word for word despite the fact that almost all translations for this series aren't done by people fluent enough in Japanese to make definitive wordings.

I mean maybe being ridiculously long and detailed is the point but I've seen many people complain that they're lost, don't know where to start, that it's frustrating to read on mobile, and balk at there being too much information to properly digest the series, especially if they're not fully up to date on everything. A wiki is supposed to be for the purpose of providing a relatively quick and easy guide for understanding things fast and finding information--piling in all this irrelevant content and banter seems counter to that idea.

And honestly, having to put in so much detailed verbatim information also feels like part of the reason why some info updates from Pierrot still aren't done despite the novel coming out months ago.

Just a thought. This wiki seems to often follow the song wiki style of going into as much explanation as possible so that the lyrics are fully understood despite the fact that it's talking about novels, which usually require more succinct description. 