User blog comment:GJ-Lewis X/Should I adopt the Doom Wikia?/@comment-38304595-20190126014045

Howdy,

I recently just finished DOOM (or DOOM 4 as I think it's referred to here) and was surprised to see how little information there is about the newest addition to the game present here and found many articles missing information or insight that someone freshly done with the campaign could begin adding. Before I continue, I feel this post will be beneficial as it's coming from someone with new eyes looking on this ancient community.

First of all, the availible literature on the classic DOOM games is staggering, with tons and tons of information availible discussing inside cliches and niches that obviously cater to the hardcore modification community that sprouted from the original DOOM games, it becomes daunting to read. This is especially true when at first, pages simply titled "Monster" and "Thing" become black holes of coding information with an overabundance of numbers and mathmatical equations presented in charts and graphs blasted at a reader who simply wanted to find out maybe the lore and history of the evolution of "Monsters" and maybe found it curious a wiki containing the page "Thing" (which I've read several times and find it still hard to understand).

While there is a plethora of information available about the classic DOOM games, there is little to no information present for DOOM 2016 (other than basic copy and pastes of PDFs) which I purchased and played through in anticipation for the recently announced Eternity. Also, I found it really annoying that after finishing the campaign and wanting to read more about the lore or just general information I may have missed, such as the Titan page, found it completely void of basic facts such as it was the last time Hell tried an offensive approach to the DOOM Slayer and after the Titan's defeat, they switched plans drastically to try and trap and contain the DOOM Slayer instead. The annoying part got worse when I  discorvered I needed to actually register an account on this wiki to edit such a simple page. This is something I've never encountered in my many years of let's say, viewing and editing pages on the FalloutWiki. Maybe this is why content has become so sparse here. I think a great step forward would be to allow open anonymous editing (which still tracks your I.P. if I understand correctly so it's not like much damage could be done by one disturbed or drunk user).

Circling back a bit, it may seem I am quite critical of the over abundance of information about a video game from 1993 compared to one from 2016, considering I'd expect the current product to have a bigger audience, but this is not true. I am very much fascinated by the deep history of this game and it's roots in early computer gaming/computer gaming modding communities. I don't wish to see any of it dissapeare or get cut back, just organized better. Right now, this feels a lot like the DOOM Classic wiki instead of a proper DOOMwiki. Also, please don't change the icon to that ugly one mocked up above (sorry for being blunt). Take pride in the roots of this place and the Cacodemon mascot, don't try and go turn of the century, gothic metal trash style. I've been on the internet long enough to know that countless edgy, metal, goth, emo, ect pages look like absolute shit because they all want black backgrounds with red texts and distracting pentagrams everywhere. You don't need that. A simple google search of "white text on red background" can give you enough reasons (scientific discussions too) actually why that's a horrible and immature idea. This place doesn't feel DOOMish? What the fuck does that even mean? Let the content speak for itself, you don't need unnecessary and annoying graphics or a headache inducing color scheme to make people feel like they are in the DOOMwiki, you just need good articles.

I guess why I was even searching under community and blog posts is because the lack of articles present for DOOM 4, compared to the bible like length of the Classic series, made me wonder if the people here (or person, who really knows what kind of traffic this website pulls, I don't claim to) even like the newest game. I've seen nothing but great reviews for it and I personally thouroughly enjoyed it. No, I haven't played DOOM or DOOM 2 and if that bothers the crowd here instinctually, tough shit. Eternity is coming out and it's got over a million views on YouTube for the gameplay videos. It's quite of opposite actually of the FalloutWiki which has such poor amounts of content for Fallout 76, that it's easily assessed it's the weakest entry in the series (it is, which is why I found the DOOMwiki so confusing for it's lack of content with the modern day titles).

Anyways, I really enjoyed the game and the series and reading all the lore and trying to understand the almost 30 year history DOOM and it's communities have had on the internet and it's impact on gaming in general but this wiki needs a serious overhaul. Get rid of all the locked articles so people don't have to make an account and start organizing everything better, it really shouldn't be like this with less than a year away from Eternity coming out.

Edit: I did click on your link to imgur for what you want the new wiki to look like and I was surprisingly impressed with it. Maybe a little tweaks but the dark grays and black with white text is very nice and the use of red sparingly was a nice surprise so I do apologize previously for judging your athestics based on the logo above, I was expecting a style of a highschool MySpace page circa 2006. I didn't go back and edit out my previous statements as I feel that would just be cheap.