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Originally Posted by Para99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Oh, I always assumed it was meant to be like the Eldrig the Old page since I always check the Discussion tab for mobs and usually find additional mob information or nothing. I can't think of other mobs off the top of my head where the Discussion tab is additional mob info but I know I've seen it and several mobs that say "See discussion tab for more info" as the description on the main page.

Oh I see. Well, the wiki is what we make of it, so it's not wrong to use it the way that person did. My point was just that if you go to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Talk_pages (our wiki renames Talk=>Discussion) it will suggest the page is more for talking about content. In an ideal world that info, perhaps summarized, would get added to Eldrig's actual page instead.

Originally Posted by Para99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I didn't word it well, I was referencing copy and pasting comments from p99 specific threads, not Allakhazam comments. Information from a p99 thread from 2012 might not be accurate in 2018 so the next guy looking for information on X mob is left to search for the same thread, which would be locked so no one can update it and say "Hey this thread isn't accurate anymore, don't waste your time".

Gotcha. I personally grab a lot of info from these forum, and my general philosophy is to use whatever I find, even it's old. Very little P99 information has been invalidated, so unless I specifically know it's outdated the odds are very good that it isn't. There's only been a few era-appropriate changes (eg. Plane of Hate revamp) and only a few "change how you play" bug fixes (eg. old Necro FD pulling).

Everything else (95+%) is still valid and always will be. Plus, even if you manage to mess up and update the wiki with something outdated, it's usually super easy to fix. You say a mob is at loc 0,0, another player goes and looks for them at 0,0, and when they don't see them they edit the wiki to remove the line about 0,0. No big deal.

Originally Posted by Para99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

people update the wiki main pages and erase past contributions, which are sometimes relevant, so then you have to search through the history of the page to get the full scope of information.

Humans are fallible so stuff happens, but hopefully cases like that should be very rare. If you ever see a pattern of someone deliberately removing content, please do contact a wiki admin (eg. me) because we have to "police" the wiki ourselves; Rogean, Llandris, and the rest all have their hands full with just the game and the forums.

Hope all that was helpful.