Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-1370845-20150505005336/@comment-1370845-20150505025743

DrodoEmpire, your post here is dedicated much more to attacking me than it is to actually responding to the issues presented, and I find your use of "good day to you" and the tone of your post condescending. The discussion is about the views of the community, amd not just mine; I want to hear everyone's opinions, and not everyone's opinions on my own. If you have a problem with how I made the arguments I did, I encourage you instead to make your own arguments better.

The information in our articles currently is objectively irrelevant to the subject of Spore. If you wish to prove otherwise, I encourage you to demonstrate to me how the personal life of Will Wright will help someone get through Spore's space stage. It simply does not relate to the gameplay of Spore in any way relevant to the reader. When the wiki is specifically about Spore, all content must be related to Spore. And this reason is why we should give second tier coverage at best to information that is only partially related to a Spore subject. This is why we have Spore-like games, and not individual articles on each Spore-like game.

Regarding, "aren't we meant to deliver the best information possible?" then yes, that is exactly what we are meant to do. I just feel that that information should relate directly to what a reader of the wiki wants to find when they browse a wiki about Spore. And the out-of-universe information does not relate to this. It does not address any questions on what the game is about. Should you argue that it does answer questions on who developed this game; yes, but do we really need to detail it, and can we to a significant extent?

I will reiterate: if someone can write a page on Will Wright that stays directly within the context of the subject of Spore that lasts several paragraphs, I would be more than willing to change my view and say that, yes, these articles can exist. If I am correct, and it is not possible to do so, then we are better off linking to Wikipedia, who unlike us, are not bound to a specific subject, and can provide much richer and more detailed information to us about the subject of Will Wright than we can about the subject of Will Wright just within Spore.

I will add a fourth option: a "List of Spore developers" article, which includes the information on people who have worked on Spore, and link instead to that page.