Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="giant.robot" data-source="post: 6202451" data-attributes="member: 93119">I have long railed against Wikipedia deletionists and their absolutely ridiculous power trips. However looking over the linked Wikipedia articles I can say they're generally pretty bad. The Rick Loomis, Lord Soth, and Vecna articles need a serious rewrite. The Lord Soth and Vecna articles are written with different voices, one describing the character as if they were writing an in-universe biography and the other writing about a fictional character.Compare the Vecna page to say...Aragorn's son <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldarion" target="_blank">Eldarion</a>. The Eldarion article (a character appearing only in an appendix) is well sourced and categorized and looks and feels like an appropriate Wikipedia article. Eldarion is certainly not any more notable a character than Vecna but the Wikipedia entry is actually decent. Besides fighting deletionist policies on Wikipedia also consider contributing to Wikipedia and fix the articles to resemble something useful. If someone stumbled on the Vecna article they would be hard pressed to figure out what it was from the page's context. The same is not true for the Eldarion article.It should be obvious that the Rick Loomis and Flying Buffalo articles are in similar shape. The Flying Buffalo page is at least formatted according to Wikipedia guidelines. The Rick Loomis entry is awful and really needs to be cleaned up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="giant.robot, post: 6202451, member: 93119"] I have long railed against Wikipedia deletionists and their absolutely ridiculous power trips. However looking over the linked Wikipedia articles I can say they're generally pretty bad. The Rick Loomis, Lord Soth, and Vecna articles need a serious rewrite. The Lord Soth and Vecna articles are written with different voices, one describing the character as if they were writing an in-universe biography and the other writing about a fictional character. Compare the Vecna page to say...Aragorn's son [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldarion"]Eldarion[/URL]. The Eldarion article (a character appearing only in an appendix) is well sourced and categorized and looks and feels like an appropriate Wikipedia article. Eldarion is certainly not any more notable a character than Vecna but the Wikipedia entry is actually decent. Besides fighting deletionist policies on Wikipedia also consider contributing to Wikipedia and fix the articles to resemble something useful. If someone stumbled on the Vecna article they would be hard pressed to figure out what it was from the page's context. The same is not true for the Eldarion article. It should be obvious that the Rick Loomis and Flying Buffalo articles are in similar shape. The Flying Buffalo page is at least formatted according to Wikipedia guidelines. The Rick Loomis entry is awful and really needs to be cleaned up. [/QUOTE]

Verification