Thread:Jekkers/@comment-12776-20150102062404/@comment-25930818-20150103181022

The problem with that (now that I think about it) is that, as Kuruni has pointed out elsewhere, it means we're duplicating lots of book-text in massive blocks all over the place. On the one hand, "Who cares, it's not like The Internet is going to run out of space", but on the other hand, if it turns out there's a spelling mistake somewhere, it'll need to get corrected in all the grey-box copies. Or if a new article comes along and lots of phrases ought to be linked in wiki markup, it means we have to do the corrections over and over again.

I know I'm new so I don't wanna go rocking the boat, but I've been on other wikias before, and something I've seen work goes like this:

Make pages like Monster Girl Encyclopedia I, and Monster Girl Encyclopedia World Guide I: Fallen Maidens, and god-willing one day Monster Girl Encyclopedia Stories: Diary of the Age of Monster Love, and basically anything that is an actual book with KC's text in it, all be set up like Baphomet Complex is now: just a super-quick introduction, and then the article is just the text, verbatim, in grey boxes, separated by title headings. And then instead of cut-pasting the huge blocks of text in other articles, just link to the apropriate section in the book article. I've made a mock-up of what the Incubus page would look like, in User:Goddess Ilias/Sandbox.

Do it like that, and you don't have to cut-paste everywhere. I disagreed with him earlier, but the more I think about it the more I come round to Kuruni's way of thinking. Duplicating whole chapters of source text everywhere is at best... inelegant, and at worst really inconvenient for the aforementioned spell-correction and new-wikilink reasons. If we have some well-organized page where the text of each book is just reproduced from whole cloth, then we can use the wiki like it's probably supposed to be used and link rather than giant-quote.