Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6986530-20170803220318

Yo, in some respect this is an old topic for a lot of you but I think it's appropriate to make an actual thread for it. While we're probably all going to be busy making edits to the wiki because of the new releases and even the old releases, another issue we have going on right now is cleaning up articles that already exist around here.

This refers to three specific things:

Trimming down on character articles

There is a large list of character articles (which are in the most need of revision) that need to be brought up to the new writing standards we're using for the wiki, as referred to in this blog post. If you'd like to handle any of these character articles, please let me know. Refer closely to the blog post if you're not sure now to trim and revise the article, or feel free to speak with me or GreekTelepath.

The character articles still in need of checking are:

Aai Freezis

Adam Moonlit

Aile Freezis

Allen Avadonia

Anan Octo

Anne Lucifen d'Autriche

Arkatoir Marlon

Arte

Arth Lucifen d'Autriche

Ayn

Ayn Anchor

Behemo

Brigitta

Bruno Zero

Carlos Marlon

Carol Shields

Chartette Langley

Chelsea

Clarith

Clive

Daniel Ausdin

Demon of Gluttony

Demon of Greed

Demon of Lust

Demon of Pride

Dylan

Egmont

Eikichi

Elluka Chirclatia

Eugen

Gakusha

Gammon Octo

Gast Venom

Gatt Coulomb

Gear Genesia

George Ausdin

Gerda

Germaine Avadonia

Gilles

Gumillia

Gumina Glassred

Held

Hob Homer

Ilotte Venomania

Inukichi

Irina Clockworker

Irregular

Juno Beelzenia

Kai Miroku

Kaidor Blankenheim

Karchess Crim

Kaspar Blankenheim

Kayo Sudou

Kiji Yarera

Kiril Clockworker

Kokutan-douji

Kyle Marlon

Lemy Abelard

Levia

Lilien Turner

Lolan Eve

Lukana Octo

Ly Li

Ma

Marc

Margarita Blankenheim

Maria Moonlit

Martius Marlon

Marx Felix

Master of the Court

Master of the Graveyard

Master of the Hellish Yard

Maylis Beelzenia

Meguru Conchita

Mei Miroku

Meta Salmhofer

Michaela

Michelle Marlon

Mikina Freezis

Miku Miroku

Mikulia Greeonio

Milky Eights

Minage

Minis Stoup

Muzuri Conchita

Nemesis Sudou

Ney Futapie

Nob Nicole

Oyuka

Perrié Cutie Marlon

Phoebe Aymieux

Platonic

Pollo

Presi Rogzé

Prim Marlon

Puerick Rogzé

Rahab Barisol

Rajih Riliane Lucifen d'Autriche

Riliane Mouchet Rin Chan

Rin Miroku

Rita Flohn

Ron Grapple

Saruteito

Sateriasis Venomania

Scherzer

Sekka Le Corbusier

Servants

Seth Twiright

Shaw Freezis

Sickle

Thorny Elphen

Ton Corpa

Toy Conchita

Uibee Waiter Willus Zorach

Xenos Jaakko

Yarera

York Le Corbusier

Yufina Marlon

Yukina Freezis

Yvette

Zusco

If that list looks monstrous, keep in mind not every character will be in need of trimming. I imagine characters based almost entirely on songs, or extremely minor characters for example, won't need much taken out.

Cutting down on unfounded assumptions

This relates to the trimming down point above, but can apply to more than just character articles. We need people who are very well versed on canon materials to find instances of wiki articles making unfounded assumptions that were, more often than not, put in there to fill gaps or pad out the article.

An example of this is someone putting that Mariam joined the Silver Sparrow unit and rose through the ranks before becoming general in charge of it. Really, all that part of the article should say is that she became the general of the Silver Sparrow unit, because no information suggests or denies that she joined it and rose through the ranks, or was assigned her own unit, or what.

Hopefully that makes sense. I'm sure other people can think of better examples of how they were tricked into believing something because someone made assumptions on the wiki articles.

 Correcting mistranslations

Another huge issue is that a lot of our articles were written using translations that were at best awkward and at worst terribly incorrect. This issue is the most egregious in character articles because of the previous policy of word-for-word article writing, and the most appalling on articles that borrow from the earliest translations like Cloture and Wiegenlied.

For this one, we need people who are familiar with the most accurate and clear translations available to go in and correct misinformation in the articles caused by the bad translation.

Since the biggest issue is with Cloture and Wiegenlied, I'm going to point you to this blog which is working on a translation of Cloture's VG version and has a large portion done already.

That's about it for now, please let me know if you'd be interested in helping with these issues. 