Forum:Long Summary Trimming

Hello anyone. In two different occasions (at first in talk:episode 682 and then in talk:episode 384) some users agreed in the necessity of trimming summaries that are too much long because of the addiction of useless sentences. Now: in both cases there was a discussion. For sure it is useless to start the same discussion every time. Should we start the final one here?


 * 1) The first thing I'd like to understand is: there is a majority who believes that it is a problem? Or the mass believes that quantity always means quality?
 * 2) If the first answer ends with the ammission that some trim may be needed, we should discuss about what should be trimmed. I have an opinion but I'll wait till the first question is solved.

Bonus question: is this forum horrible? Yes, because I don't know how to create them. --Meganoide (talk) 22:14, March 23, 2015 (UTC)

Discussion
Quality over quantity, right? If trimming text improves the quality of it. Then there shouldn't be a problem with it. People are just out to cause pointless arguments. 23:08, March 23, 2015 (UTC)

Well, I do think that we shouldn't have overly descriptive summaries. However, removing this much is going too far, in my opinion. 09:23, March 24, 2015 (UTC)

The ironic thing with the edits on that article is that the article can now qualify as a stub. SeaTerror (talk) 09:50, March 24, 2015 (UTC)

No it isn't. Meganoide (talk) 11:34, March 24, 2015 (UTC)

Alright, look. The way I see it, not all articles can have the same standards applied to them for length & level of detail. For example, compare Luffy's history/plot section to that of, say, Wanze. For Luffy, it would be ludicrous to go into the same level of detail as, say, a long chapter summary does because his page would be VERY long, and for a main character like him, it only really needs the super-important/generalized details. For Wanze, though? He appears in one arc for a few chapters, and that's it: he's a minor character at best. Thus, it makes sense to go into much more (but not completely full) detail for his history section because it won't make the page overly long, and it can only help contribute to the reader's understanding. When it comes to chapter and episode articles, it seems pointless to reduce the paragraphs to generalities: while I understand not putting in every last details about the boots and the cats or whatever featured therein, describing each scene should be fairly detailed, and in the case of episodes that add in filler stuff to an otherwise canon scene, that stuff should be described in greater detail than the little blurb it gets in the "Anime Notes" section.

tl;dr people are allowed to trim summaries, but first they should evaluate whether or not it needs trimming based on what kind of page it is and what details are actually important.--Xilinoc (talk) 14:12, March 24, 2015 (UTC)

So, in a few words, you admit that some page may need to be trimmed. Thank you. --Meganoide (talk) 14:16, March 24, 2015 (UTC)