Board Thread:Wiki Improvements/@comment-4146635-20131207205009/@comment-4146635-20131208044601

Red Compassion, Red Love, Red Hate wrote:

Frankly, because I'm me, I have to take the other side. Just because.

Although transcripts are long and time consuming to complete, it's not really a reason for why they shouldn't be there.

.... "Although transcripts are long and time consuming to complete, it's not really a reason for why they shouldn't be there." I don't think you read my entire argument. I also said that they can easily be vandalized and no one would notice. It is far more common with transcripts then regular pages because "Hey Austin, I have some peanut butter!" can easily be changed to "Hey Austin, I have some suger butter!" and no one would even realize it's the wrong line. On regular content pages, you can tell when something is changed because content pages only give basically specific detail not specifically specific detail. If you haven't already heard, this wiki's reputation for inaccurateness and false information is increasing and I don't want it to carry on any longer.

When I said not many people can access the full episode, I was relating it to editing and how it would affect it. Since you can't access the full episode on demand, you can't edit the transcript as often which makes them incomplete even longer. Some transcripts will be started and not finished for another six months. How does that make the wiki look? The Rockers & Writers transcript I started in summer 2012 and it was finished nearly a year later.

"I remember seeing the Backups & Breakups page have no episode summary until like.... January/ February... and it aired in October... So.... like 3-4 months..." That's just bad on the admins' part because we should have taken care of that (which is why we now have wiki sections). But transcripts aren't as simple as writing a 2-3 paragraph summary of an episode.

"Also, we have I think 65 articles we've called subs, and in my opinion, also meaning "incomplete". I really don't think a few more pages will really damage anything." We're talking almost 40 more pages. Not just a few more. And not to mention they will stay stubs for about six months or so.

"I mean, if people can't watch them.... at least they can read them." But will it be accurate? Will it be finished? What information will it really deliver other than the episode? How often do people really read these anyway? I doubt it's often.

"The idea of picking which quotes are necessarily "important or funny" is completely based on a person's opinion." It's pretty obvious wants meant to be funny and what quote is important to the episode's plot or show's progression.

Hoenstly, transcripts require a lot of work and effort that is just useless in the long run. Barely anyone reads them (so it seems), edits them, or comments on them. I don't want users to have to go through so much just to finish a transcript. And they just create landfill on the wiki unfinished.