Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-1370845-20150505005336

As we are a wiki that covers the content of the Spore game(s, I refuse to accept the spinoffs exist : |), all our articles should contain information strictly relevant to the games. This means that the personal life of Will Wright, the other games EA has published and the history of Maxis prior to Spore should receive a sentence outlining them at most. This is to say, most of our out-of-universe articles currently contain irrelevant information - it is not strictly relevant to Spore.

We end up giving first tier coverage to information that should receive second tier coverage at best. My problem is that limiting our articles to strictly relevant information leads them to being what would be considered a stub in other cases. An article is no longer a stub when no more relevant information exists. If Will Wright's page only has three sentences - and those three are "he worked on Spore, it was part of his geand vision, btw he made the Sims, ok now check his Wikipedia page", I strongly wuestion whether we should keep it on the Wiki instead of merely link to his Wikipedia page.

Now, I know people will say "oh, we can talk about Spore's development here", but my response to that is, "that is information that should be on the game's page" (...which needs a complete ground up rewrite : |). Any information about Spore's development should be specifically relating to their role. So, with this said, we have three options for our articles:
 * 1) Delete them and link to Wikipedia's.
 * 2) Have them be short sentence articles. If someone can write a decendecently-sized article that stays relevant on these subjects, I will support it.
 * 3) Ignore the above, and include irrelevant information. This is not strictly helpful to the wiki, and these pages will need cleanup regardless.

The choice is yours, but I strongly suggest option 1. 