Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-1990160-20140521040036/@comment-1330314-20140521150057

Deshiba wrote: Nope, you'd really not want it to be immediately available. Because it's a complicated topic it should really be part of the extensive Gold efficiency(GE) article. There you can read up on the how, what and why of GE, which adds context to what is now a random dump of numbers on the item pages.

The current cost analysis sections have both a link to the gold efficiency and an informative tooltip, so any user willing to inform themselves of the meaning and structure of gold efficiency can already do so fairly quickly. I still think the idea of a collapsible template with a preceding disclaimer-type template would be preferable to just dumping the cost analysis of every item ever onto the same page: firstly, all of the information pertaining to a single article should remain as centralized as possible, i.e. on the article itself. Imagine if we took every strategy page or lore section for every champion and put it into the same page: putting them all together might give a better idea of the bigger picture, as well as connect all the bits of strategy and lore with each other, but the result would be a massive, bloated mess. The same thing would happen if we decided to put the full cost analysis sections for every item on the gold efficiency page. I do think, however, that the gold efficiency article could benefit from a table of values, which would indicate the gold value of every stat we know and the item from which it is derived.

Secondly, I think having to deliberately hide information from viewers runs against the tenets of a wiki and is fundamentally wrong. It just brings us back to square one, where we have to decide whether this information is worth keeping or not, since we'd have to keep it out of view to prevent it from infecting readers with radical new ideas. If we have information worth keeping, it needs to be as freely available and easily accessible to readers as can be.