Board Thread:League of Legends Wiki discussion/@comment-3308937-20130203232502/@comment-3308937-20130207170044

Dj0z wrote: It would look neater but is that the point of a wiki or the point of a design portfolio? I checked Morgana's page sandbox version, and there's a whole lot of valuable information lost in your process. Research that people took time to do, going into custom games specifically to figure out how things precisely work, and all that knowledge accumulated over time. Why would you just trash it all like that?

Namely, in the Morgana page, you ditched, among other things: the graphic Q bug; the Black Shield + Kayle R combo; the fact that Black Shield checks for CC after having absorbed the damage from the same spell; way too many mechanisms about the ult to even mention.

I took away the black shield CC thing because it's wrong, I just forgot to change it on the ability details page. Black Shield and Intervention combo is more befitting of the strategy or trivia pages than ability details. Regarding the bug, it isn't exclusive to Morgana in the slightest, that's why I didn't feel it important to keep.

Those are details that separate players who know precisely what they are doing, and players who just hope a given spell will work the way they'd like it to. They allows plays, mechanical excellency, and prevents a great amount of questions from being asked in the comments. Check out said comment pages, the same questions already answered and whose answer was stored for future reference in the ability details page, will become asked again.

I highly doubt a graphical bug, knowing wrongful pieces of information or knowing something that you can figure out with basic logic is what separates someone who knows exactly what they're doing and someone who has no idea what they're doing.

When the (a) wiki stops being the place where you can find all the answers you could possibly want, it's a step in the wrong direction, and eventually another site will arise to respond to the players' needs that are no longer fulfilled. Leave dumbed-down descriptions for the game client or ingame play, which fits perfectly because ingame, nobody has the time (or will) to read extensive details about everything. However when you come to the wiki you want all the details available should you need them. You don't want to have to reinvent the wheel and go play a custom to experiment until you figure out stuff that was already found and documented before, but then deleted for eye candy.

This is assuming that, outside of this one test example where the only things I "deleted for eye candy" were frivolous and unnecessary in regards of educating players on the game.

On another note, having to click 5 times to access a champion's full details is unnecessarily tedious. So is having to load a new page just to find out information on the abilities on the main page.

People worked for these details, erasing them is just wrong. And their work will not be in vain, stop generalizing.