Oblivion talk:Edgar's Discount Spells

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[edit] Redundancy

I don't understand... Investing is a perk of 75+ mercantile. If you're investing, you have 75 mercantile. "You can't invest, even after 75 mercantile." Having 75 mercantile is the only requirement. You can't invest before, you can invest after. The only reason to keep that is if you wanted to cram in an extra link to make the page look fuller. And that's not even a legitimate reason. I'm not going to start an edit war, but I think the redundancy should be taken out, because it seems like text for text's sake. Explain your reasoning behind the revert, because I'd like to understand what I did wrong. Colovian 02:39, 10 February 2008 (EST)

It's not about trying to cram in extra links; it's about trying to make sure that readers get the information that they're looking for. And given that there are only five merchants in the game who don't allow you to invest in their store, I think it's worth adding a few extra words to make sure that readers understand that this is an exception to the usual case. It also provides readers who have never heard of investing in a store (because they haven't reached that level of mercantile skill) some explanation of what investing is and why it's noteworthy even though they've never heard of it.

If you already know everything about the game inside out, then the information may be redundant. But to the average reader, I don't think it's redundant information; without that phrase, there are no links on the page or other easy way for the typical reader to get the additional information. Therefore I think that deleting the phrase hurts readers rather than helping them. --Nephele^Talk 13:47, 10 February 2008 (EST)

We could link 'invest' to the 'Mastery Skill Perks' section on the Mercantile page. Then their would be no redundancy, and the link would inform uniformed readers of what investing is and how to do it. Change the article if you agree. Colovian 19:27, 10 February 2008 (EST)