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*Remaining todo: please move all collaboration discussions to [[Talk:Super Mario Bros. 2]]. The todo should be updated with remaining tasks. I added the warps image task that RAP reported. | *Remaining todo: please move all collaboration discussions to [[Talk:Super Mario Bros. 2]]. The todo should be updated with remaining tasks. I added the warps image task that RAP reported. | ||
*The result of the nomination of this featured guide will occur after the remaining work has been finalized over on that talk page. When that has been completed, new comments and objections to this nomination should occur under this header as there is too much content above to keep track of. --{{User:Notmyhandle/Sig}} 18:26, 25 March 2014 (UTC) | *The result of the nomination of this featured guide will occur after the remaining work has been finalized over on that talk page. When that has been completed, new comments and objections to this nomination should occur under this header as there is too much content above to keep track of. --{{User:Notmyhandle/Sig}} 18:26, 25 March 2014 (UTC) | ||
::I'd like to point out a concern that I have about this process, and the results that it's having. There is such a thing as a guide with ''too much'' information. Information about a game can essentially be divided into two categories: | |||
::# Information that is useful and relevant to players of all experience levels, and | |||
::# Information that is only useful to expert players and/or of "academic interest." | |||
::While there is definitely a home for the second category on this site, I worry about the presentation of it being mixed in with the first, creating some confusion among some readers. Furthermore, I feel that escalation to featured status should ''not'' be contingent on providing 100% of information belonging to the second category, only the first. The point of a featured guide is to say, "This is the level of quality one should strive for when creating their guides." If the second category of information is included in this measurement, technically no guide (not even our existing featured guides) will ever realistically reach that goal. Nor would I argue that this would be particularly beneficial to our audience. Our audience isn't necessarily ''us''. We're experts. We know many video games inside out. That's what makes us qualified to write guides about them. But most readers just want to know what they need to know. The more "extra" we throw at them, the harder it becomes for the readers to learn what they came to find out. And then they may stop considering this site as a useful resource. '''[[User:Procyon|<span style="color:red">Pro</span>]][[User talk:Procyon|<span style="color:grey">cyon</span>]]''' 23:56, 28 March 2014 (UTC) | |||
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