Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-4698489-20150808195101/@comment-1330314-20150813205641

Alright, so with this, all non-derived information is held to be essential. Why? What makes it essential? If an ability were to shift from non-derived to derived, would it become non-essential?

Also:

Phoenix169 wrote: 1. FlipText's purpose is to provide alternate information without taking up additional space.

Conflicts directly with:

This template is for presenting alternate information, not for reducing content.

Ultimately, this comes down to poor formulation in both the template and point 1, but you are nonetheless expressing a clear intention to use FlipText as a means of saving space, an intention I share which goes against the documentation written by Emptylord. There is already some level of disagreement from three different parties here, which we need to resolve together. I believe FlipText is useful, and often necessary, for reducing the space taken by leveling information, and from my understanding so do you.

It is also worth mentioning that, quick as you are to dismiss my application of standards to champion articles as purely my own endeavor, you are equally eager to jump on a piece of documentation written by a single person -- which, by the way, doesn't even agree with you either -- which has no application to the mainspace and is, for all intents and purposes, obsolete and in need of a rewrite. It is also fairly pernicious of you to attempt to edit the very document you are using to justify yourself, and even if it were not your express intention to fudge yourself a free pass, it is unwise to make such an edit while these rules are being established by several people, and not just you.