Nitrome Wiki:Requests for Deletion/Endings

Endings
I've been thinking about this one for a while. I know a lot of users do think this page works, but it's just a gigantic, repetitive article that, overtime, is going to fall into neglection anyways. As a sidenote, a lot of these issues have been brought up on Talk:Endings, but no one has really given a reason as to why this page should stay. This request will hopefully encourage supporters of the Endings page to clear those reasons up.

Okay, concerns:


 * 1) Needless, neglected updating - Multiple games are missing from this page. Hardly anyone has [ updated] it to actually add an ending since at least September 2012. Most users add the endings on their specific game pages instead of the Endings page, and I would assume most visitors visit the specific game pages to read the ending as well.
 * 2) Length - This page has to accomodate about a hundred endings to various Nitrome games. If Nitrome continues to release more games at the rate they're going, it's going to be dastardly difficult to search up the ending of one specific game by browsing a long table of contents, even if everything if organized in alphabetical order. Compare this to searching up the ending to a specific game on the game page. Much easier, is it not?
 * 3) Presentation - First the spoiler cover. Okay, that might make sense considering the fact that I'm about to see multiple endings before my eyes. So I click the "yes" confirmation, and am presented with a gigantic sea of spoiler templates. What is the point of a spoiler cover covering a large mass of spoiler templaes? If anything, either the spoiler cover is kept on the page, or the spoiler templates, but certainly not both. The presentation of a grey sea of spoiler templates looks dizzying enough anyways.
 * 4) Searching - If I wanted to look up an ending to a particular game but didn't want to spoil all the other game endings for myself, why would I even go to a page called "endings"? Like I said earlier, it would be a lot easier to find the "Endings" section on a specific game article than having to scroll through one on the "Endings" article. If we maintain this consistency with our game articles (which we do, for the most part), then visitors will catch on.
 * 5) Purpose - The opening sentence of this article is quite vague, spoonfeeding and pretty much characterizes a lot of Flash games or just gaming in general. Unless the endings of Nitrome games have a very significant trait that differs from other games out there (and they don't, by the way), then I highly, highly doubt anyone is going to be confused as to what an ending is.

"Endings" is only lengthy for its long list of endings, and without the list, we just get a generic opening sentence about the meaning of an ending (an ending is seen at the end of a Nitrome game - no really, I'm shocked) and perhaps some outdated trivia. It's just an absolute, frustrating mess that needs to be dealt with, either by deleting the page altogether or finding a more presentable way to characterize significant fact. From the looks of it though, "Endings" offers none of that and should be deleted.

Delete - As nominator 07:20, May 16, 2013 (UTC)