Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-4794476-20170604212905

Hi, it is I.

I'm here to talk about what seems to be a mega issue in this wiki, and it's that the articles have become outdated, messy, and inconsistant in format. This is extremely irritating to see, and we need to fix up quick or else it's gonna get out of hand as more and more updates increase.

I believe the solution we have left is to create formats for every single type of page (characters, games, etc) and revert the page to that format, thus creating more organized, consistant, cleaner and overall more updated pages. I already created a new character format, and if you want to see that it's here:

http://angrybirds.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:The_Boomerang/Character_Articles_Cleanup

If you don't want to visit that page, then the changes made were:


 * Cutting out the "Appearance" portion. It was just unnessecary since people can literally see what the birds look like.


 * Removing/limiting the quotes at the very top to just 1. I saw that other wikis were adding quotes of the characters and I thought it'd be cool, but users literally began adding every single thing that the character said and it became so unattractive to see.


 * Removing the "main" character infobox. It was smart when Rovio was more consistant in games, but once they began changing up their characters it was hard to apply.


 * Seperating the character's individual appearances into sections. This makes things WAY more organized; you'd have to see it to understand. Now, let's say Hal, get's his own sections of his appearance in Go!, Seasons, Rio, and Transformers. This way, we can show how he looks in each game, what he does in each game, and the info is basically just not all over the place. (especially in those lengthy, messy character pages) (ex, Star Wars 2 characters)


 * Removing ridiculous trivia. Just something we generally needed to do. Trivia's supposed to be interesting.


 * Creating seperate galleries, which isn't in the blog, since I couldn't make 2 seperate ones.
 * (EDIT) Removing any reference of a color-coded character. Rovio clearly has no interest in making "Red Bird" and "Yellow Bird" official names anymore, as they never really were, so we should go on calling birds by their actual names.

For now, I really want to do this one part until we get to others; so that for now we have something to work on. It's really time consuming, and I doubt anyone will actually do it, but just to update everyone. :) 