Thread:Angelo Gabrini/@comment-45921811-20200527165457/@comment-37883549-20200528100402

How big are these complaints? I have no idea what you're talking about if you deal with this stuff on discord or reddit

They're semi-frequent off-site, especially on Discord; it's hard for me to gauge how big they are in general, but typically the lack of citations is pointed out as a big criticism in what's written. Edits are after all only as good as the editor's understanding of the situation, it can be very easy to leap to conclusions and add misinformation, or otherwise accidentally misread a passage in Japanese (for those of us who aren't natively fluent in the language like yourself), which is why citations can help catch that.

For example, one instance I can think off the top of my head is actually with myself; it was written that Mother's assassin organisation was based in Gusteko, and I was fairly confident that this was not actually written anywhere in the text, and was an assumption. So, verifying the non-existance of that information for me was extremely tough before I could remove it from the page. Whereas, if that information had been cited it would have been a different story since I'd only need to look up the respective chapter/SS. This is especially a problem in Re Zero where there's so, so much writing dispersed over various different (some exclusive) mediums, so showing some information to be false can be extremely tricky. "Believing that wikis aren't correct because they can be edited by anyone is an unfair stereotype" I agree with you. Outright saying they aren't correct because of a lack of citations is ridiculous, but I feel that improving the verifiability of the information on the Wiki could be a plus. The big problem of course would be going back and citing the information already added, and that would require a community effort since it'd be impossible for only us staff to do it. But it might be feasible with the boost this Wikia will see due to the influx of users from the upcoming Season 2 airing. Ultimately the decision is up to you, of course, my personal feelings are that I'd prefer this sort of thing, but I can see the monumental effort something like this could take as it not being worth it.