Thread:Jemann/@comment-4875760-20150515171322

I started playing Fallen London a few weeks ago, and have found this wiki to be very useful. However, it has a few problems that are very frustrating to new players.

First, the way that item source categories are put together. For almost all of these, there's just a long list of storylets that have something to do with the item in question-- it's not always even ones that give the item, sometimes it's options that REQUIRE the item, which is supposed to be its own category.

I have only found one page that does not do this, and instead shows an actually useful format for figuring out where to obtain the item in question. This is the page in question: http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Glim_Sources

As you can see, this page lists storylets, the requirements for playing each storylet, and the amount of the item in question that each storylet gives out. This is how these categories should be put together.

For contrast, here's the category page for sources of Whispered Secrets, which are easily at least as common as Glim: http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Whispered_Secret_Sources

This page provides no useful information. If you want to find out which options are the most reliable sources, your only choice is to click every single storylet and make notes of which are useful and which are not. This also means that there is no way to effectively find a source of this item without spoilers. I trust that you can understand how this is frustrating to a new player.

The second issue is in regard to the item pages themselves. Most item pages offer little information on what the item is. For example, is the item particularly related to a certain area (e.g., wine and honey with Veilgarden)? Is it generally associated with actions involving a particular quality (e.g., rostygold with Dangerous)? Does it have no meaningful use other than being sold to the Bazaar (e.g., Baptised Rattus Faber Corpse)?

This is of lesser import than the issue of the category pages, but it still is something that would be greatly appreciated. If the wiki doesn't have any more information on an item than the in-game description, then why even bother looking it up?

Thank you in advance for your consideration. I hope that you will find my ideas reasonable. I am aware that none of this would be immediate, but long-term change is better than no change at all. 