Thread:Gtctrinity/@comment-28542427-20190529143111

Hello there,

Thank you for your edits man. You have a talent with words and a good overall influence on the Wiki (even if we may disagree on some matters, there's always a way to sort things out and it pushes the Wiki forward in the end of the day, and that is what's most important).

I wanted to contact you about the matter you wrote about on Katrina's wall, since I felt writing there wouldn't be appropriate at this moment.

I'm sorry, but you're deeply in the wrong. Site's readability will not improve at all when you'll make a one big page on Hybrids (same goes for eg. Eggs or other similar topics). Actually - quite the opposite.

You will create a wall of text (even compressing the recurrent info) on the most basic and important of topics ; the first encountered enemy is the Pipe Hybrid, after all. That will scare people away from reading a huge article (especially divided in half by 3 infoboxes - which sorry, are a must in there - will simply look bad, BTW). I'm afraid many (too many, alas) people go by the TLDR rule and that's the last thing that we want. While this doesn't mean we should succumb to this, obviously, merging SUPER-important, basic information pages (even shorter ones) into one long is simply wrong. I know you want to continue the work you started (and it's a great work you're doing), but that's the last thing that should happen. Can't agree on this. It would also create a dangerous trend of deleting pages that ARE really needed (as are invidual Hybrid pages!) - sure, you can merge Psi-Reavers (even one is a mid-boss per se), you can merge Cyborg Assassins, etc, and after that you can go a step further, but... I'm sorry, it's not about that. Variety is needed, at least when it comes to most basic  game-related things.

Also, there are additional bad side effects of that 'consolidation': taking away direct information (even when using anchors) for topics that are just elementary ; destroying structure of enemy infoboxes (some enemies will be included, some not) ; and last but not least, taking away views - last month all of the individual Hybrid's pages altogether had 512 views (while Hybrid had 457), and while some of those views could transfer to the merged site, in the end effect it would be still less views.

Have you really thought about it, from all perspectives?

On the other hand, you're very right that both individual Hybrid's pages AND the (group) Hybrid page need rewrtiting/reformatting. But actually, not only condensing-wise. Some additional information are needed there. Just haven't got to those pages (as to many others, actually).

And your approach is right in general too, since what you're doing is exactly what's needed for quite some pages, ie condensing their content in a good style. Please keep it up if possible.

Last but not least, there are actually good examples for the idea you presented - and these are the single, super-short pages mostly based on mentioned-only info, like the individual hackers from SS1's manual or corporations responsible for single products, briefly described in tooltips of SS2's items. These pages cannot be enhanced in any way most of the time (at least not if you want to avoid major subjectiveness), so their fate is, well, worth talking about (perhaps condensing them would be a good solution). If there would be any pages which existence would be doubtful, it's them. But not crucial pages.

I hope you understand.

Regards. 