Thread:BeholderofStuff/@comment-30053419-20190804051334

Sorry to botther you, but I thought it best we talk about this before this turns into an edit war.

Basically, the problem with the Priest is that most of the article is speculation. We know absolutely nothing about him - apart from the fact that he used to be a priest, got Infected, showed up at the church, tried to attack Jim and got smacked in the face for it. End of story.

Even the implications don't implicate him: there are other Infected lurking among the corpses - for all we know, a whole crowd of Infected attacked the church at once; or it might have been a mass sucide, hence the grafitti. I mean, if the Priest had actually attacked his own congregation, he would probably be dead, or the church would be a whole lot emptier, given how easy it is for Infection to spread. But that's beside the point: we don't know what really happened. We don't even know who wrote the grafitti. So, if 80% of the article is speculation - along with open invention in the case of the stuff under his profile - is this article really worth keeping?

And another problem: why are we giving individual Infected their own pages when none of them have any real identity and rarely contribute anything other than a jumpscare? Mailer is the one possible exception to the rule, given we have confirmation of his past and a definite role in the story. The others aren't characters - they're scenes. We've already got one big blanket page for the Infected. Surely that's enough, isn't it?

The point I'm trying to make is that if we go out of our way to make articles on the most inconsequential of villains - those with no identity, no past, and no personality not already covered under "Infected" - then we might as well include every zombie that ever appeared in a horror movie, showed up for five seconds, and then got killed. We might as well include "Stormtrooper Knocking On Doors In Mos Eisley."

If there's no role in the story, no character and no confirmable acts of villainy to their name, what's the point?

Thank you for your time. 