Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3551372-20141008051821

This is really getting out of hand. Of the number of pages I follow, when they get edited, SO MANY PEOPLE think it's funny to put an opinion of their own on a caption of a picture or even in a paragraph on a wiki page.

People come to wikis for information. They do not come to find people who edit pages with a different mindset that they express on the page.

A number of galleries have a plentiful amount of pictures, but an absolutely appalling amount of bad captions. Many people decide to put captions on every image. The image is fine without a caption, it just will be blank if no information is really to come from it. If you have an opinion about what is happening, I'm not saying to scrap your opinions. You are entitled to think that picture is weird. But not every person who reads the page will have that mindset and/or want to be forced to have that mindset if they don't want to. Comments like "no comment" "wat" and lines that correlate to the situation but not in an informative way (Example, Mario running away from the Teletubbies in cars, a caption read "RUN B****! RUN!" which is colloquial and slang like. Informative is if one is mature about the events happening in such a picture.). It makes it sound colloquial, and while SMG4's videos are colloquial to gather a large audience, that doesn't mean information surrounding the guy has to be that way entirely as well. To describe the topics brought up in his videos that are colloquial can be done in an informative way without staring at the mess that is people's opinions.

Imagine a person who came from nowhere known. They knew nothing about SM64 or SMG4's videos. After watching a few videos, they want to learn about this guy's logicstics of his videos, and while watching helps, this wiki is here to supply that information. How would this person react if they saw expressed opinions on these pages that are not a reflection of the fact of the videos but of one's opinion?

Example, some guy edited the Real Life SMG4 page and they inserted the summary "cleanup and updates." I looked at the edit history and while some were good, the first paragraphs replacement was colloquial. It described it in abbrieviations (which should be stated at the top of a page if it's a name) as this:

"This page is about the guy IRL who makes all of these fantastic videos under the guise of SMG4... Obviously."

IRL is not something everybody on the internet knows. Sure it's common knowledge for alot of people, but even I didn't know the term for a while. Then you'll say google exists. Forgot one thing. COLLOQUIAL. Colloquial is another word for slang. Everyday talk. Something when you speak to somebody else, not writing information down. A quote is information, opinions are not. Obviously is not something everybody knows. Refer to my example above of if somebody knew nothing. You have to pretend you're in those person's shoes and give them the most amount of information possible.

What do I want this to do? To realise my problem with this wiki for some time. Far too many opinions being expressed on pages where there should be mature opinions. I tried to be active here and this is why I wasn't. Dealing with this influx of childish wiki editing is enough in my day. 