Forum:Wiki Proposal: "Official Data" sections.

This is a proposal for a policy regarding all Wikitroid articles. I think there should be an "Official Data" section at the end of each article, which contains all information directly from Nintendo or one of their studios. Logbook entries, game manuals, all that sort of thing. Anything straight from a directly quotable, official source (and by directly quotable, I mean text-only, since you can't really directly "quote" an image or a cinematic). I've gone ahead and edited the article on Zoomers so that you can see what I mean.

I think this is a good idea for two main reasons:


 * 1) Practicality. When I use this site, I often want to know, quickly and easily, what official sources have to say about the subject. I think many people would agree with me, since such sources are the essence and the core of all our knowledge on the Metroid universe.
 * 2) As a reference section. If in an article we write "The Metroid game manual states that..." or somesuch, it will be much easier for users to verify that information, sine all they'll have to do is scroll down.

Currently, we already have "Logbook Entry" sections on alot of the articles about things from Metroid Prime. In a way this is basically an expanded version of that, a more generalized version that can be applied to all articles, not just the ones about the Prime series.

Gaiacarra 20:28, 2 March 2009 (UTC)