Board Thread:Shingeki no Kyojin Wiki/@comment-24930713-20150327022217/@comment-5774380-20150427212635

Well, the discussion arised now, and the general agreement is that those long paragraphs of unrelated information are not needed.

I looked at your talk page and there is no mention from Miskos3 about the length of articles. The page of Gunther is somewhat detailed but nowhere near of what is seen in the page of Eren, and doesn't deviates that much from the topic either.

Also, Gunther is a character who appeared in very few chapters so there is no much problem if the level of detail is a bit greater than that of regular characters because his page will never grow too long anyway. If you look at the discussion in the One Piece Wiki that I linked, they mentioned something similar there.

The purpose of fanwikis is not to replace the series they revolve around, is just to serve as a source of relevant information related to them. That's what encyclopedias are, relevant information, summaries.

Posting long conversations between third characters in the page of another doesn't help to their development, it's just tiresome to read. When someone reads the page of a character, they just want to know what that character does, not what other characters are chatting. The references are very helpful to find the related articles so there is no point in filling pages with information out of place.

Also, that style of describing events like "first person says this, second person says this, first person replies this, second person answers this, third person looks" is very tedious. It's not the same reading those things here than in the manga.

If you want to know everything that happens in the manga at every last bit of detail, then you read the manga. We don't need that here, we just provide a general synopsis of the relevant facts.