TheGreens said:
Of course, there's just no set standard of how much should be written about what.
Since writing about stuff is failry eady for me, I left it to the moderators to determine what was fluff or not. Perhaps a character limit should be established?
Character limits aren't a good indicator of relevance or usability of an article - they're more useful when you need to constrain something to save space on a physical page or to reduce bandwidth used.
As the Writing Wiki article says, keep the page short and useful to tagging. Descriptions of physical appearance or behaviour for a character, the layout of a place, or things typically associated with a thing or character, etc.
TheGreens said:
You did direct me here but to my knowledge this was supposed to be a discussion on misinformation, not a public dispute.
Using the SPAS article as an example, I had written what it was, why it was interesting, its history and some trivia. I copied the format directly from other danbooru wiki articles. With yeager I described her personality, appearance and equipment, again like other wiki articles.
Perhaps it was excessive and silly and unnecessary, but I didnt lie and used other users as a base.
Note that, for the SPAS article, the key issue was that it wasn't concise or relevant to the tagging of posts - describing that it has a pistol grip with folding hook is important to distinguish it from a Remington_870 or USAS-12. But it doesn't need six paragraphs of trivia to help identify it in a picture.
Ditto anything on Charlotte E Yeager beyond her physical description, role in Strike_Witches, maybe her relationships and plot importance. We don't need to know more about Chuck other than he provided her name, especially when there were other things quoted above which weren't sourced, part of Strike Witches, or important to Danbooru.
Kay_(girls_und_panzer) also doesn't have any officially defined backstory in the extra materials, from what I recall, and outside of the fact that she led the oppositions in the Saunders match, is unimportant. Knowing she's a genki blonde bombshell with a jersey coat and shorts or a miniskirt is more important.
MyrMindservant said:
This is somewhat offtopic, but I didn't want to make a new thread for it.
Musashi (kantai collection) wiki currently states that she has short hair, but this seems to ignore her two side up twintails that are reasonably long even in official art.
Wouldn't it be appropriate to remove that statement?
Blue_Trident said:
Seems short hair with long locks would apply in most cases, as apart from the tails her hair is cut short. I've amended the wiki, but in any case it's only a general guide, images should be tagged by what the artist has drawn.
We might note that her official art has her with short hair (barring the twintails), but in the end it's a general guide and we'll have to fix it again if official art with an alternate_hairstyle shows up later.
