Just how inaccurate is the l4d wiki?

[Witch]

I've heard it can contain alot of misinformation due to being a fandom wiki, but just how much is actually false?

[76561199522283621]

should i know? xd

[supersand]

It doesn't have blatantly false info but it is clearly wrong very often, and I would not trust the tips section. I have seen a lot of bad or redundant advice on there.

I do wish there was a better wiki for the game but I feel most people just use Steam guides instead.

[Troubled]

Some of it has been untouched for a long time. I just glanced at it, and there are sections that I wrote long ago still intact. Something around the ballpark of 6-8 years ago when I was a lot more active.

if anything there is a lot of bloat and possible contradictions. Especially in the versus sections.

[Witch]

Originally posted by Troubled:

Some of it has been untouched for a long time. I just glanced at it, and there are sections that I wrote long ago still intact. Something around the ballpark of 6-8 years ago when I was a lot more active.

if anything there is a lot of bloat and possible contradictions. Especially in the versus sections.

I did go to the versus page and saw a bunch of repeated and redundant information which made the article quite bloated. I wish l4d had a wiki like the combine overwiki or the tf2 wiki.

[geordiebroon58]

depends what you are after but stuff like damage values is just taken from the code as far as im concerned and stuff like dps is just basic calculations

i only really used it for the stats so i can compare something like awp dps to single pistol (because it really is just that bad in dps)

[JAiZ]

Like others already said, the wiki is prone to misinformation and incorrect statements, since I believe anyone can make edits, and nobody routinely checks whether every statement is true or not.

I remember that the graffiti section had hundreds of completely made-up graffiti messages in it for over a decade, and that was only changed when someone recently noticed and took a few days to sift through all the misinformation to make corrections.

The wiki is good enough for quick checks about general information, but for anything more thorough or detailed, it's better to rely on experienced individuals, or resources that are widely considered as reputable and reliable.

[DucDuyGaming]

i was notified of this post by a friend of mine, so i have to make some comments or so. i am the only active bureaucrat of the Left 4 Dead Wiki at the moment, every other administrators and/or bureaucrats are either on a hiatus/dead or retired. be ready for the huge amount of incoming yapping

unfortunately the wiki isnt as vibrant as it used to be when Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 was recently released, so there isnt much activity on our wiki. and not much activity mean not much people to check the quality of the info the wiki's pages

i do have big plans for the wiki for when i return to do another big contributions (i have other stuffs to do at the moment). however, theyre most likely not fact checking, cleaning, proof reading, and updating the info on the pages. so if you are reading this, dont forget to be bold and edit it yourself. Wikipedia even stated this: "Fix it yourself instead of just talking about it". optionally state your reason for the edits

as for the wiki being fandom, i do also wish that the wiki move from Fandom to become an independent wiki like Team Fortress Wiki, Combine OverWiki, Portal Wiki, and noticably Minecraft Wiki. however, its easier said than done. having to know how to move everything and whats the cost of doing so is the first challenges. then having to try to reach as much people as we can to change the URL and stop using fandom one, alongside with fighting the abandoned Fandom wiki on the search engine as they paid to appear higher in the search engine than other wikis (Search Engine Optimization). maybe one day the wiki will move from fandom, but there is no big plan for it, i apologize

so for the time being, please use an ad blocker and, if you can, help improve the wiki yourself if you can. if you have any question ask me here on Steam, on Fandom in the name of Randompeeponinternet, or on Discord as ducduygaming

[Witch]

Originally posted by DucDuyGaming:

i was notified of this post by a friend of mine, so i have to make some comments or so. i am the only active bureaucrat of the Left 4 Dead Wiki at the moment, every other administrators and/or bureaucrats are either on a hiatus/dead or retired. be ready for the huge amount of incoming yapping

unfortunately the wiki isnt as vibrant as it used to be when Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 was recently released, so there isnt much activity on our wiki. and not much activity mean not much people to check the quality of the info the wiki's pages

i do have big plans for the wiki for when i return to do another big contributions (i have other stuffs to do at the moment). however, theyre most likely not fact checking, cleaning, proof reading, and updating the info on the pages. so if you are reading this, dont forget to be bold and edit it yourself. Wikipedia even stated this: "Fix it yourself instead of just talking about it". optionally state your reason for the edits

as for the wiki being fandom, i do also wish that the wiki move from Fandom to become an independent wiki like Team Fortress Wiki, Combine OverWiki, Portal Wiki, and noticably Minecraft Wiki. however, its easier said than done. having to know how to move everything and whats the cost of doing so is the first challenges. then having to try to reach as much people as we can to change the URL and stop using fandom one, alongside with fighting the abandoned Fandom wiki on the search engine as they paid to appear higher in the search engine than other wikis (Search Engine Optimization). maybe one day the wiki will move from fandom, but there is no big plan for it, i apologize

so for the time being, please use an ad blocker and, if you can, help improve the wiki yourself if you can. if you have any question ask me here on Steam, on Fandom in the name of Randompeeponinternet, or on Discord as ducduygaming

well I'll be damned, I didn't expect the man behind the wiki himself to comment here.

I can definitely see why the wiki has been left like that for a while, and why there's not much activity and quality checks. Big props to you for attempting to maintain it, though. I wish you good luck with fulfilling your goals with it and I'll be sure to try my hand at providing clean-ups to some of the articles if im confident in the information I have. Cheers!