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The wiki has a lot of upload errors, of the same kind that Beta used to suffer from where people would use other pages as templates and forget to change everything, resulting in such things as 6 cm megafauna, egg-laying descendants of live bearers, and more. Because of the loss of all old compendiums, there's only a small handful that can be fixed successfully. What should be done about the rest?

This post has been edited by Disgustedorite: Feb 15 2021, 10:17 AM

Perhaps the impossible or deeply improbable details could be patched over with data from each error-ridden organism's ancestor, where it makes sense. (e.g., if the ancestor laid eggs and live birth, and the descendant's description mentions live birth but not eggs, the data can be fixed so it exclusively reproduces live birth, not live birth and eggs)

I suppose that megafauna with erroneous sizes can be given the same sizes as their ancestors, or perhaps 25% bigger, to establish they've gotten bigger without being such a massive difference it would substantially alter implicit ecological connections.

P.S. This belongs in the Wiki Clerical Errors thread. I'd merge it myself, but I lack that power.

This post has been edited by Coolsteph: Feb 15 2021, 10:15 AM