Thread:Indigofera/@comment-25720819-20150520155627/@comment-25720819-20150521214725

did you even read it? the old guide was outdated, incomplete, in prose, unorganized and - well - old. the thing is, guides serve two purposes on this wiki. one is me reading it because i want to go understand a complex part of the game. the more important one (id rate them 2%-98% regarding page impressions) is me opening that page again because i want to see all the numbers at a glance. look what we did to the On a Heist page. noone wants to open 20 tabs to check for the best way to do things. they know how heists work but damn, which one was the +1/-2 one? an incomplete guide in prose does not serve this main use case.

i understand how you might want to preserve the work the original author put into the page but firstly, every piece of information made its way into the new version, and secondly, this is how wikis work - improvement. if you overhaul a current version to make it better, nobody would mind. people are happy to see it perfected.

but such a hard revert to a couple years back with creating a second guide page that noone will ever find is very counterproductive. i know there are only few recognizably active editors here and most (even major) changes go unnoticed, but you just had bad luck getting caught and being forced to have this discussion on the topic. if you really insist on keeping the old text, and i disagree for the stated reasons, i suggest keeping it around as an addendum to the new tables and pictures guide.

like i said, active editors are scarce and work does go unnoticed (i see youre doing a lot of edits recently), but please keep in mind the purpose of this wiki. having information handy and providing it in a useful form to anyone that seeks it.