Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-1990160-20140521040036/@comment-658634-20140523122812

Weak method is indeed better than none but not when it is rubbed against readers face as a fact. Back in the days before young editors and moderators got all exited from the templates and how every page needs to fit certain style, the articles contained information about items. Like 'This synergies well with champions that do most damage with auto attacks' or 'this is great for champions the longer they stay in the fight' and so on. I value the numbers and basic information and so on but all that I already get from official sources. To me, wiki(a)'s are the place to fill the gaps.

You can do how much math you want but you can't get around the fact that the GE method does not reflect a) how much impact/value it has to certain champions and b) if not all the items abilities are valued, the GE rate is misguiding. Best bang for the buck estimate would be given by saying 'Vayne benefits more from SS than PD as her Tumble synergies with the Static Charge, even more if he is equipped with Runaan's Hurricane'. Or how you plan to say that in math without including four dimensional graph and suspecting the reader to understand the graph also?

Riot does not calculate any values for the items. They use statistics and follow the games. If some item seems to be getting too much of wins, it gets from the tunepole. E.g. Feral Flare.

Having one bloated article about GE seems fine. The mods like bloated ones anyway, even though readers hate them. What does it give to the reader to show her/him basic math? i.o. Why the GE section in every article eats so much space by teaching basic math? 'Trinity Force is at least gold efficient.' should more than enough. If the reader is more interested about GE, he can read it from the GE article. If he is more interested about the math, he can double check it her/himself from the reference. Rubbing both of the to every reader is plain rude.

OT: I haven't voted any of the moderators or admins and it indeed is more like pals voting for each others. I don't see why I would give more power for persons that revert or nullify other peoples work instead of finding place for it or persons that like to keep bloated/god articles. Not how I roll as a admin.