User talk:Godlyvex5

Mechanical boss summoning item recipes
Hello! You recently added the summoning item recipes to the pages of the mechanical bosses. I can understand the intention behind that action, but I reverted the edits, for the following reasons:
 * 1) The "Crafting" section is exclusively reserved for pages which deal with items. Introducing it on other pages (pages which are not about items) breaks consistency – which the wiki is constantly aiming to keep up.
 * 2) In order to keep consistent, the recipes of all other boss-summoning items would have to be added to the respective boss's page. This causes rather long sections (e.g. for the Abeemination, which has a much longer recipe table than the mechanical summoning items) of content just not directly related to the boss. To specify (taking The Twins as an example, but it can be applied to all three):
 * 3) The recipe of the Mechanical Eye is not so much related to The Twins that it justifies being displayed on their page. Of course, the Mechanical Eye itself is indeed very much related to The Twins, being the prime method of summoning them – but the recipe is just one step too far. If we include the recipe, why do we not include the information that it can be dropped by all Hardmode enemies? That is a similarly legitimate way of obtaining it, so why should only the crafting way be included? To further clarify my point of going one step too far here: The Twins also have another method to spawn – by themselves, naturally, upon dusk after an Altar has been destroyed. Doing the same for this way of spawning (like for the Mechanical Eye way) would mean explaining that a) at minimum a Pwnhammer is required to destroy an Altar, but that b) using any more advanced hammer is possible as well; that c) obtaining a Pwnhammer necessarily requires defeating the Wall of Flesh; that d) Altars can only be found in evil biome areas; e) at what time dusk occurs; etc. All of this would set a precedent for adding redundant information, which is another lethal bane for a source of information like the wiki and which is to be avoided at all costs.

In conclusion, I do not think it is necessary to put the recipe on the boss's page. It is inconsistent, distracting, and redundant. If readers want to learn how to craft the summoning item, they can go to the respective page, which is merely one click away. Whoever reads the article about The Twins, first and foremost wants to learn about The Twins. For anything more or less remotely surrounding them, there are many other, specifically dedicated articles of the wiki to read.

--Rye Greenwood (talk) 15:30, 2 August 2019 (UTC)