Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5585298-20130614202111/@comment-7404610-20130614212048

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I disagree on two points:

Pronouns:  In most cases, "he" should be fine, because it's describing the actions the player takes as "Keith T. Maxwell",  

As an old-school grammarian I'll point out that the masculine pronoun is appropriate even when the biological gender of the person is unknown.  

In the specific case of a GameGuide:___ "how-to" type article, where most of the sentences are in the imperative mood (with the implied subject "you"), it is acceptable to shift from the ordinary "encyclopedic" third-person to second-person "you" occasionally.

Images: Just because an article doesn't have (m)any images does not mean that it "could greatly benefit" from adding images purely for the sake of adding them.  Frankly, a lot of the images I see on articles here don't add a thing to understanding the topic in question.  Others have the potential to be helpful with some editing, which takes work.

Remember that the nature of this particular wiki means that it is very likely to be accessed on cell phones and tablets.  It takes a lot of resources to display a lot of images on a web page, even though the person viewing that page will probably see much-lower-resolution versions of those images.  I've done some testing on my sub-$100 Craig 7" Android tablet, with no app other than the browser running, and it takes forever to load most of this wiki's pages.  (Things go better on my iPad, but I know some people play GOF2 on Android devices with less memory than my iPad has.) Even a slideshow gallery, which thankfully reduces the screen real-estate occupied by a collection of pictures, still requires that those pictures be downloaded over either Wi-Fi or a cellular data plan that might cost the user a lot of money, and stored in the limited memory of these mobile devices. 


BTW, you misspelled "professional", which is the inevitable result of Muphry's Law :-).