Thread:Jekkers/@comment-25930818-20150114183800/@comment-25930818-20150116101310

On Elf, I am not entirely averse to the idea of the synthesis data going second, for exactly the reasons you outlined - we don't want people thinking that our summary is KC's words. On the other hand, I think grey-box-ing KC's words makes that distinction obvious, so I can also live with the ordering as it is now (which, surprise surprise, is why I did it).

As for the text-blocks and repeating or not repeating them... I agree with you that having them in full on both Monster Girl Encyclopedia I AND the Elf article is inelegant, but I don't see any way around it. It needs to be on MGE1 because... well, MGE1 is a verbatim quote of the printed book. And it needs to be on the Elf article because ALL Elf info needs to be on the Elf article. Otherwise, what's the elf article for? I don't think "rewriting them as a brief summary" is in any way acceptable, because the bits I think are relevant for a summary might not be the same bits other people think are relevant for a summary. Whereas if we slap all the text that pertains to Elves on the elf page, then people can read it and make their own choices as to what's useful and what isn't.

Again, you're right, it'll make some articles big, but I'd much much rather have big than have "Why isn't this elf info on the elf article" crossed with "Why isn't this section of MGE1 on the MGE1 article". And also, it won't make many articles big. Giant Slug and Sea Slime and Chimaera and Ogre and most profile mamono never get mentioned anywhere else ever, so won't have any block-quotes. It's only a few outliers, like Elf, where potential bigness becomes a problem.

> Heck, the info come from print material where you don't have Ctrl+F magic.

Shouldn't we strive to be better than dead-tree media?

> The reason why I suggest using subpage is so we can have more focus discussion on specific topic.

I suppose part of why I don't like giving book chapters their own page is because... well, a book chapter isn't a thing in MGE-land. Demon Lord is a thing in MGE land. Barometz is a thing in MGE land. Gods are a thing in MGE land. Hell, even Monster Girl Encyclopedia I and Fallen Maidens are things in MGE land; Wandering Scholar wrote them and the Order is trying to burn him for heresy because of it. Conversely, Monster Ecology (in the style the article's in now) isn't a thing in MGE land. It's... a filing subdivision cut-pasted out of Fallen Maidens.

I like articles about things in MGE land. I don't like articles about filing subdivisions.