Talk:Body Armor

Rewrite
With permission, I'd like to rewrite all of the Diablo II body armor sections at least. Currently they contain irrelevant information such as "covers your shoulders and chest", which is interesting IRL but is completely useless as far as gameplay is concerned. Some infoboxes would be good to make the pages more professional. Brainwasher5 (talk) 16:03, November 21, 2013 (UTC)

◄► Tephra ◄► 20:33, November 21, 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure how you intend to use infoboxes, their overuse can be equally as bad as their underuse, but feel free to rewrite anything that you feel you could improve.
 * I don't think we have to use Infoboxes to remove the irrelevant information he's getting at. As of now, the information he's talking about is relatively useless in terms of gameplay. We can just simply delete that irrelevant information, can't we?
 * Ishi Clarke (talk) 23:25, November 21, 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry for not being clear, the two topics are separate: one for the nonsensical physical aspects of armor IRL, and one for more infoboxes.
 * I think that organizing the extant information into infoboxes would not add clutter to the pages to an extent that they become more of a liability than an asset. Brainwasher5 (talk) 00:03, November 24, 2013 (UTC)

Breywood (talk) 01:29, November 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * Not even worthy of being put in a trivia section?  Ok then, I removed the rest.  Infoboxes?  I think they look fine listed as is, though.
 * If, by irrelevant information, you mean 'protects your breast and legs', then I seem to have cleared it away. Other than that, nothing else to report.
 * Ishi Clarke (talk) 01:50, November 24, 2013 (UTC)

◄► Tephra ◄► 05:11, November 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * If greater than 50% of a page's content is in an infobox, I consider that to be overuse. The current way of listing stats lacks some consistency across the wiki as item pages have been built by multiple people over the course of several years, so some cleaning would be welcome. However, I think infoboxes would be superfluous. Everything packaged into a professional-looking box may be aesthetically pleasing, but if you are looking for a pretty wiki, there are some other Diablo wikis that have essentially ripped Blizzard's database and look nearly as nice as the original they are cloning (for what reason duplicate information is necessary, I do not know). It is my personal opinion that what this wiki offers as opposed to our counterparts is raw data, simplified without the excessive pretties, and firsthand experience from actual gamers framing that data into information useful to our readers.
 * That being said, if you wish to create a mockup infobox as a proposal for consideration, feel free.