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Hope that helps! '''[[User:Sky Blake|Deliera]]''' <big>♠</big> <small> [[USS Veritas|Veritas]] ▪ [[User talk:Sky Blake|talk]]</small> 02:54, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

== Additions to ILI pages ==

Hey, Daryl. The point of the ILI pages is not to 100% complete them before use, but to allow players to develop the species as they go through their own sims. Sometimes having a "bible for a species" is useful, but it is also restricting in ways that is not ideal for story-telling across ten ships. If a page is totally completed, players will feel that they must abide by what is on that page, with little room for development or creativity for their own. I imagine this is why many new players choose to stick with human characters, who can be from anywhere, of any culture, and of any look, rather than being restricted to the strangely singular cultured species we currently have on the wiki.

As such, I would rather that all species, not just the [[Ohanze]], only have their development simmed, rather than dictated by one person on the wiki. This gives players the ability to expand upon this species as they wish. When it comes to information regarding homeworlds, leaving those areas blank gives science officers or away teams the freedom to exercise creativity and come up with this information themselves. This is why we use the references system, so that players can go to those sims that refers to specific pieces of information and see how other writers approached using the species as well as what was done during missions. It's a guide and an active history, showing what was simmed for this species before.

Unless we are creating a brand new species for a mission that requires background information pertaining to that mission (like we did with the [[Ohanze]] and the [[Adovan]]s, as examples), I've been advised that we should not information to ILI pages that has not been simmed by players, as the ILI should be used to document what has already been simmed, rather than dictate what ''should'' be simmed - I’ve checked with [[User:Rich|Rich]] about this and he reiterated the message from the fleet admins that the wiki should primarily be documenting what’s been simmed, rather than trying to "complete" entries for completion sake - which I believe came alongside the development of the references template. I understand the use for uniformity in information, and that a complete ILI page looks better ''complete'', but in those cases, we can use the [[Template:Expansion needed|Expansion needed template]] to inform players that they can and should add new information that they have simmed to an ILI page. I understand how ILI pages were updated or expanded upon by the SDC, but as that team no longer exists, it is now up to the community as a whole to add new information to ILI pages, rather than a few, or the one, person.

In regards to the Ohanze specifically, the Veritas will still be using this species for missions in the Shoals. As such, we'd like the ability for our 12+ players to also expand upon them, rather than have to stick with what has been added to the wiki, yet not actually simmed.

Thank you for understanding. '''[[User:Sky Blake|Deliera]]''' <big>♠</big> <small> [[USS Veritas|Veritas]] ▪ [[User talk:Sky Blake|talk]]</small> 05:15, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

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