Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-4544033-20150712015608/@comment-1738746-20150712125438

I honestly don't see any issue with the Sload article point you raise (it certainly reads a lot better after you re-wrote it), especially considering it has an in-game reference.

That aside, I'm really sad to see it was you who pitted the wiki against UESP like that. I thought the UESP bickering was behind us. You've got to keep in mind that the majority of people who jumped into a TES wiki/database of some sort was during Morrowind & Oblivion's release, the same time this wiki was going through its "dark ages". We're past that now, we're far better than we used to be, but all those people started with UESP instead of us and as human beings generally do, they stay where they are most comfortable and already established.

A lot of the people moaning in those threads about TESwiki in specific are very biased in their comments, and I don't blame them. If I have to compare UESP and TESwiki I would be biased towards TESwiki too, because that's what's familiar to me and the place I call "home". People get defensive about that sort of stuff and will dredge up random things to protect their side of the argument in a tunnel-vision style in order to further protect their argument (a tactic the general media is well known to use). I'm pretty sure if I went to UESP I could find plenty of faults too just as those people did of our wiki; neither site is without its flaws, especially when people go in with the intention on finding them.

That person may have seen that Sload comment as a "lack of quality control" but I see it as extra thought-provoking information. And this is extra interesting information that UESP doesn't allow for, which to me is ridiculous considering the whole point of a wiki is to provide as much (sourced) information as it can to its readers. This whole UESP vs TESwiki subject is extremely subjective and can only end badly. We need to be able to review things more objectively than that; what does this piece of information mean to us? Is the trivia point coherent, not claiming to be confirmed information and referenced? Yes. End of story. It shouldn't matter what UESP does or doesn't do, and it especially shouldn't matter what UESP fans (who will always criticise us for whatever we do) want from us. We're good at what we do, just as I'm sure they're good at what they do. People will have personal reasons for picking one over the other which are highly subjective, meaning we can never cater to absolutely everyone. We're one of Wikia's top wiki sites... have more faith in TESwiki than that Atvelonis :)