Talk:VenomFangX

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[edit] Holy crap

This article has become way worse than it was a couple of years ago, the last time I visited (note my comment above). Weasaloid reminded me of its existence.

While clearly a lot of work has gone into this, it's actually just way too much. The density and intricacy of this article about a very minor YouTube vlogger is entirely out of proportion to any sort of sense or even good taste.

I am going to obliterate this and condense it into less insanity. Apologies.--ADtalkModerator 12:25, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

And now, looking at this thing, I don't even know where to start.--ADtalkModerator 12:27, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
I have deleted several entire sections, but really the whole thing just needs to be rewritten at a third of the size and a tenth of the detail.--ADtalkModerator 12:45, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

[edit] horsewillbe

seems like this is a new alias? Thieh[Talk needed] 00:25, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

[edit] Protection

Weasaloid made a much-needed clean sweep of the article, but anonymous IPs have several times tried to undo it. I have temporarily protected the page from editing by IPs and new users.--ADtalkModerator 11:39, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

[edit] Request for more information

Seriously. I just came from the lengthy page on vlogger dprjones and the stuff that happened in 2010. Nothing on that in this article.

Apparently, he came back? Nothing on that in the article.

In fact... there's pretty much nothing on the.guy here. How the heck am I supposed to understand his kookiness if all there is is two paragraphs that barely say what he's about?

Rationalists like me rely on information. Restricting access to such information is the opposite of rationalism, in my opinion. -Mackinz (talk) 03:11, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Old version is here. WēāŝēīōīďWeaselly.jpgMethinks it is a Weasel 06:44, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
We used to write reams of stuff about various idiots on Youtube, but then we realised they were just idiots on youtube and pruned things back a bit. SophieWilderModerator 07:29, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
Also, this is a wiki. You can edit it yourself.Put in anything you want. Scream!! (talk) 09:50, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
Cake recipes? SophieWilderModerator 15:38, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
Recipespace should still exist.
Anyway, on the wider point, the wiki is reflected by quality - and quality is often damaged by quantity. Massive tl;dr screeds dedicated to every little minor infraction by one throwaway pointless YouTuber who is now mostly active on a Facebook page with about 800 followers is hardly worth the time to put up with. It's best to say who VFX is, keep to the major notable stuff, and let other people obsess over it. Scarlet A.pngpostate 15:44, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
Unfortunately I don't think there's much overlap (at least at RW) between people who care about this subject and people who can write concise, relevant, interesting content about it. We previously had reams of obsessive cruft written mostly by drive-by editors and single-purpose accounts. WeaseloidWeaselly.jpgMethinks it is a Weasel 17:24, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
+1, with one exception - RW still has reams of cruft written mostly by drive-by editors and single-purpose accounts. Unless you were talking about this article specifically.--ZooGuard (talk) 19:00, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
I was talking about this article specifically. If you want to improve it, go ahead. But rolling back to the epic version linked above wouldn't be a good option. WėąṣėḷőįďWeaselly.jpgMethinks it is a Weasel 21:13, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
OTOH, it should be considered we're a pretty niche wiki. The people who come to here might just be the ones interested in all that gruft. I'm not saying that massive wall of text should be restored, but some obsession with minor detail is to be expected and niche relevant. Octo8 (talk) 08:38, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
I'd agree with that, actually. Just anything but the text-wall that it was. Literally anything. A picture of Shawn's face blown up to 10,000x10,000 pixels would be better than that. {{subst:expand:User:Armondikov/sig}} 10:47, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
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