Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-1370845-20150519153228

Okay, the last discussion didn't lead anywhere. Let's try this again.

It is my opinion that our out-of-universe articles are in need of a rewrite, and that a lot of the information is not strictly relevant to Spore, nor helpful to a reader on a wiki who wishes to learn about the game. A few problems with this information:
 * 1) The pages do not italicise mentions of game names. This is not encyclopediac, but is easy to fix, however. I could do it with my bot.
 * 2) Information is rarely sourced. As an encyclopedia, we should provide sources for all claims we make on out-of-universe subjects. We do not have to do this for the gameplay, because the source is always the game, but for claims like "EA earned 20 billion dollars in x year", we certainly need to.
 * 3) Information often does not concern the game itself. We can make mentions about the other projects, but we do not need to list every single game developed by Maxis, although it would be useful to write about the Sims on this pages, and link mentions of it to the Wikipedia articles on the Sims (using The Sims.

This thread is to discuss the fate of these subjects. There appears to be popular support for not just removing them from the wiki entirely, which I feel would be more appropriate, so instead we should look at improving them. More importantly, what information do we want to keep? Keep in mind that any and all information should be sourced, and that we do not have to cover subjects not strictly related to Spore in detail, when wikipedia already does and when we will need to update them constantly.

Personally, I feel relevant topics include anything giving context behind Spore's development and/or marketing. It does not include pre-Maxis EA games, Will Wright's personal life, or the founding of Maxis. The latter two there one could possibly build a stronger case for keeping and not rigidly policing that kind of coverage, but the rest?

What does everyone think about this topic? Hopefully, we can get users involved in helping these articles out a bit, too. 