Talk:Karen/spoilers: Difference between revisions

Firstly, we aren't Wikipedia. If we were, it would say Wikipedia at the top of the page. Our mission is to provide good GTA information and be helpful to GTA gamers. 2 months is NOT long enough for everyone to have bought the game, even if tens of millions of people have done so. We have always been delicate about GTA SA spoilers, and we should do the same with GTA IV. The way I've edited the pages now is to outline Karen and Michelle on different pages, since they have different names and appear at different stages of the game. Yes they are the same person, but this gives us a perfect opportunity to hide the spoilers. The text ''"later in the game"'' means ''"don't read this or click  on it if you dont want to know"''. Yes people know spoilers are here, and yes all the information SHOULD be on this wiki, but a big plot device like that should not be on the first sentence like that. [[w:c:gta:User:Gboyers|Gboyers]] ^{[[:w:c:gta:User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]} 00:21, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

EDIT: Gboyers: I'm sorry, I didn't see your message before I posted this.  

[[User:KalypsoSig|KalypsoSig]] 00:47, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

The very fact that this conversation is happening lends to the idea that this is not common knowledge. If all the info on this site is common knowledge two months after the game comes out, then why does the site exist at all? What need would you have look for any information to begin with, if you assume that all of it is common knowledge? But this is not common knowledge, especially for someone who just opened the game. The point of these wikis are to serve the user, not contributor's egos, and assuming the user knows this information is unnecessarily elitist, and the worst part is that it is a ''disservice'' to the user. The issue is not whether or not these pages contain spoilers, because of course they must.