Talk:Dark Wood Grain Ring/@comment-1687225-20120622133859/@comment-1687225-20120624031510

Alright. I'll tell you why what you're doing is harmful.

1. Location has a lot of information that is redundant with the Shiva of the East page. Also, Dark Souls is a non-linear game in which you can reach many locations in many different ways. Trying to define the location of a place relative to how you reach it (as you did above) is incredibly cumbersome due to the non-linearity of this game; there are two ways to each Shiva in the forest and as far as I can count at least 5 ways to reach him in blighttown; if you want to be thorough (as you should be if you're going to put information into a wiki) you'll have to link them all, or assume that the readers will be intelligent and curious enough to search up the relevant pages, which brings me to my next point.

2. Creating lots of red links makes a page look unprofessional and incomplete and does not help flesh out the information of a page whatsoever. This is a personal peeve of mine too since you blatantly ignored the fact that a rings page does exist, twice now. You were just too rushed, perhaps, to realize that a ring page doesn't exist and that it would have taken you a fraction of a second longer to link it correctly.

3. Defeating the Bodyguard section: way too specific on strategies. Dark Souls is not a linear game; there are a huge variety of ways you can off Shiva's bodyguard, but that does not mean you have to specify a large number of them, especially when it contains incredibly subjective information and informal language such as "absolutely never face away etc."; this is a wiki, where information is objective if preferred and always meant to be formal or at least have a passing attempt at formality.