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To be honest, as someone who is usually quite uninterested in writing plot summaries, I kinda want to flip the question that started this conversation: do we… ''need'' detailed plot summaries? If people want to know every little thing that happens in a story, in the order they're presented on in the story, surely they just ought to go read/listen/watch/<s>smell</s> that story. The Wiki's strength rather lies in spreading all that information to the in-universe pages. A lot of Wikis do just fine without detailed plot summaries and just have more-or-less-detailed synopses. | To be honest, as someone who is usually quite uninterested in writing plot summaries, I kinda want to flip the question that started this conversation: do we… ''need'' detailed plot summaries? If people want to know every little thing that happens in a story, in the order they're presented on in the story, surely they just ought to go read/listen/watch/<s>smell</s> that story. The Wiki's strength rather lies in spreading all that information to the in-universe pages. A lot of Wikis do just fine without detailed plot summaries and just have more-or-less-detailed synopses. | ||
'course, this is all idle musing. The reason we're going to keep having plot summaries is the same reason we're going to keep having pages about [[grape]]s and [[bicycle]]s and what-have-you: we've put a lot of work into having them already, there are consequently a lot of them around, they don't do any ''harm'' by being there… so all in all it'd be silly to stop now. | 'course, this is all idle musing. The reason we're going to keep having plot summaries is the same reason we're going to keep having pages about [[grape]]s and [[bicycle]]s and what-have-you: we've put a lot of work into having them already, there are consequently a lot of them around, they don't do any ''harm'' by being there… so all in all it'd be silly to stop now. | ||
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