Board Thread:Wiki news and announcements/@comment-1585211-20160721020948/@comment-1585211-20160721044824

I'm sure if you gave me a shout you should still have my email. It's almost identical to my username here, if you forget.

To compensate for the lack of content to add to review articles, I went around and added as many references as possible. Sometimes to the point of overkill, but it proves a point.

I think the issue at hand is that having reviews is that it sort of goes against the concept of an unbiased wiki. That and no one whatsoever wants to make review articles anymore, leading to every blaster since the release of the Agent Bow not having a review or a gallery sub-page.

Another option in theory is to have, beneath the links to other sites, a link to our own Nerf Wiki review (which we already have), with an internet-wide review database underneath where we sample all the reviews we can find and trust. It's also possible we can aggregate the scores from there to see how the blasters truly rank, if you know what I mean by that (for example, add up all the review scores given to the RipChord and find out the average review score is 6.9/10, that kind of thing). At the very least it would be as far from unbiased as possible, especially if we make our own review score equivalent to the aggregate score we found.

Listing links to reviews on the blaster page would involve reaching out to the sites first to ask if we can host their links, which sometimes a site is unable to do so (ie. any site that is down, like Urban Taggers or NerfCenter). In those cases, we could pretty much stand to go ahead and add the links anyways because it only serves to advertise a dead site at that point.