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::::::Awesome! I've already completed the sections regarding John's activities between Halo CE and Halo 2, namely the raid on Ascendant Justice, return to Reach, Eridanus Secundus and Operation: First Strike. Just wanted to ensure that I wasn't doing something you had already started working on :D and yeah I'd be interested in seeing how the tabs could work.[[User:ArcticGhostXCV|ArcticGhostXCV]] ([[User talk:ArcticGhostXCV|talk]]) 18:59, 5 February 2019 (EST) | ::::::Awesome! I've already completed the sections regarding John's activities between Halo CE and Halo 2, namely the raid on Ascendant Justice, return to Reach, Eridanus Secundus and Operation: First Strike. Just wanted to ensure that I wasn't doing something you had already started working on :D and yeah I'd be interested in seeing how the tabs could work.[[User:ArcticGhostXCV|ArcticGhostXCV]] ([[User talk:ArcticGhostXCV|talk]]) 18:59, 5 February 2019 (EST) | ||
[Reset] No one's questioning the work you put in to this, Eld. The effort you've put in here is amazing and really dedicated, and no one's advocating to remove it. One thing I feel we should remember is that a wiki's primary purpose is to be informative to those who don't know about the subject, and I feel like the article as it is right now may be a little bit imposing/ intimidating to new fans or those not particularly well versed in the lore. If people aren't reading the books, it's likely they probably won't be wanting to read a novel-length wiki page about the character (and to be clear, this is not a criticism of you or your work, the article as it stands now is amazing). The suggestion to split it up would simply put it into different sections to ensure that every area can be fleshed out appropriately. Imagine if the Battle of Earth page also included all the in-depth info from the Battle of Mombasa, for example. It's more an issue of (at least, for me) of when detail overweights user accessibility. Splitting up the article into, say "John-117/ Early Life", "John-117/Human-Covenant War" and "John-117/Post-War" would simply involve taking the text you've wrote and placing it across those pages, with the main John-117 page giving brief overviews of those subjects and links to the more in-depth articles for those who want to read it. | |||
If I were a new fan to the series and I wanted to get the gist of who the Master Chief is, I'm not sure I'd want to read this entire article as it stands now. It's a problem I've often found on some wikis like Wookiepedia and it's Legends pages (see: Darth Vader). This isn't meant to be an attack or anything, it's just that at this point John has a massive history and dozens of stories, and splitting the page may be a way of simply helping with accessibility. But at the same time, I would never want to get rid of the work you've put in so far either, because you've been doing a great job. [[User:BaconShelf|BaconShelf]] ([[User talk:BaconShelf|talk]]) 19:00, 5 February 2019 (EST) | |||