HRWiki talk:Spoons

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Now, I don't agree with this. Let's go hypothetical and assume that I'm the sort of sad person who would make a Wiki about a house. What would come first? The rooms of course, let's say those are the main characters and the toons too, but then, since I'm trying to make a full knowledge base of my house, I put in my TV, my TV isn't some huge thing, I have three TVs, lets say they represent Senor Cardgage, he doesn't appear often, but he is large enough to merit an important page, even a featured one. So

I have the stuff I use most on now. I have the TAVI equilivent of my Wiki on my house. But people begin to say, 'Why don't you have other stuff on your Wiki, you must have more stuff somewhere, all you put on is big things!'.

So I go and create a page about the paintings in my house on this Wiki, and a page about my laser printer, and slowly, in my quest for full documentation of my house, I put on cutlery, and then I split it into spoons. I have achieved everything now. My knowledge base is complete.

The point of all this crap is, if we are trying to document ALL of Homestar Runner, we need little things like that, otherwise it isn't complete, and then people will create those pages. Why can't we have a complete Wiki I ask you. Not everything needs to be interesting. Just like not everything in Homestar is very interesting...tape leg.--~ SlipStream 10:12, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

We should really only document stuff that someone might want to read. Whenever you write something, you must keep the readers in mind: will anybody read this? If not, there's no point in writing it. We dont' edit this wiki for editing's sake but to build a knowledge base that holds information that our readers (and ourselves, obviously) are interested in. Now, we CAN have Spoons, Toons that do not contain the letter "X", Toons that use the color #FFE and so on. But there's no point. It's a waste of time, energy and also a little money. It's not only a waste of time for the ones who create those articles, it's also a waste of time for those who edit, correct, format, discuss and delete them. This wiki is a team effort, and every page that is created affects many people. Loafing 10:31, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Loafing, I find the last part of your reply disappointing. The wiki is a waste of time for you? Don't read it! Editing wastes your time? You don't have to do it! If you have other things to do, then do them by all means. Don't let the wiki stop you. I can show you at least 50 other users from varying levels of participation that edit the wiki solely for the sake of enjoyment.

Now, about the subject in matter, I don't have as much time as I would like to respond to this, which I will do later, but let me leave you with this: One man's spoon article is another man's featured. — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 04:22, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Well after the bell, but I must respond. Loafing was not saying editing the wiki is a waste of time, energy, and a little money. He's saying (and I agree) that writing and editing articles that are not worth reading is a fool's errand. The point of this policy is to describe what kind of article will be of general interest and will be read and useful.

As far as "don't edit" as a solution, well, I might remind everyone that we all shape how things are done. A "love it or leave it" attitude isn't healthy amongst positive contributors. Rather, I'd advise "love it but work to make it better". I am certain Loafing enjoys working on the wiki, so that's a straw man argument you raised.

Finally, I'd restate your closing remark as "One man's spoon article belongs in a concordance, not a wiki." - Qermaq - (^T/C)  09:55, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

So you're saying that if spoons were used in a different, offbeat way (such as sticking them up Strong Sad's nose) we could have a page, but spoons are too ordinary and generic to have their own page? That's what I'm saying. --Thy Not Dennis (^t/_c) 19:54, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Dynamic imagery

I would suggest we have a different spoon image of the few available come up on random page grabs. Dot Com knows the way to do it, as do others. There are many fun spoon memories to include here. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  01:02, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

You're saying we should have a random image of a spoon appear on this article? Similar to how we have random quotes appear on certain articles ( e.g. {{homsarquote}} )? Am I understanding that right? OptimisticFool 01:58, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Not so much saying we should as suggesting we could. - Qermaq - (^T/C)  06:04, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Why exactly do we need images of all the occurrences of spoons? It makes no sense. --75.5.176.233 23:50, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

That's not the Qermaq's suggestion. He said we could possibly have a rotating (random) image of an occurrence of spoons in the Homestar Runner universe, meaning that the image of 1-Up currently on this article could get swapped out for another image at random, like the {{homsarquote}}. I don't think it's necessary, though. {{homsarquote}} was created because of several edit wars over what the caption for Homsar's image on his page should be. There is no such edit war here, nor will there be soon. -- Super Martyo boing! 04:09, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, but it's cool. I want to see it. But that's probably because I hate the 1-Up pudding picture. free 20:26, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

{robot voice} Don't you think this is a great idea? --Jellote 20:00, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Is this page useful?

Does this page accurately describe a guideline that we follow on this wiki? If so, what is that guideline? It needs to be stated more clearly on the project page, because it is so often invoked in discussions, but it seems to be misinterpreted a lot. If it doesn't describe a guideline we follow, then it needs to be deleted or clearly labeled as opinion. — It's dot com 16:11, 25 June 2009 (UTC)