Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-3448772-20131101035205/@comment-3448772-20131101154346

James Pierce wrote: A big issue that can't really be solved is that because this is such a vast wiki, there will always be more content than people willing to write about it. Can you really blame people not wanting to write articles about sports games that release every year? Every member has a few things which they are enthusiastic about, but once you get out of that area, nothing can realistically be done without recruiting more passionate people. Yes, because of the large scope of this wiki we really can't keep up with all the wanted content.

And any way to help bring in more editors would be good as well.

James Pierce wrote: One thing I would like to see is some tutorials on how to create templates. I want to create templates for the older Fire Emblem games similar to the statistics created for Awakening (which are really nice I might add). Templates are generally made on a case by case basis, however I could try making a guide for making templates. However making new templates is more based on the editor's understanding of template coding. Though for making templates like the one you mentioned wanting to make could just be done by copy-paste-modifying the code of the currently existing template into the new template's page.

If you have any questions or need any help making templates feel free to ask me for help, and I'll be happy to help.

Bibvahoopy2 wrote: Not sure how long it would take, but I can't wait until the day that there are no red links. We really need a lot more people to write up articles on lesser known games.

I think whatever stops a person from writing is either they haven't been inspired or they have some trouble with "story-telling". I remember that when I wrote the Del Cottonwood article, it was tough to write since I had to tell about Shadowgate 64's storyline without spoiling anything.

I do agree with James Pierce, though. It would be an easy way for people to start writing rather than staring at a blank page thinking, "Where do I start?" I too have had times when I try writing content for an article and I'm like "I'm not sure if it is good enough... Maybe if I... No...". That sometimes stops me from getting the content actually written.

With spoilers, you don't have to avoid them, but you can if you want to. This wikis policy on spoilers is basically we have spoilers. It is up to the editor whether they want to write the content with or without spoilers.

One thing we generally do here is we set up the basic formatting for an article but don't add much content. Which I think may help editors to be more motivated to write content for it, but I'm not sure, please tell me if it helps or not. However this leaves stubs everywhere and is really the main reason why we can't get spotlighted.