User blog:Sancarn/I've known this for a while but...

The tekkit wiki needs some serious editing. It needs people to go out and test and provide all the facts on relevant pages. I'm a physicist by trade and whenever we need to design a machine we look through a whole database of facts and figures to try and find the best materials to make the machines out of. That is exactly what this wiki needs IMO. It needs some in depth topics about doing things efficiently and lists of all the facts.

I'm planning on starting with a picture of all the items in the game and finding each and every one of there EMC values. But there is still alot to be done. This wiki is riddled with pictures in different texture packs and pointless repition of facts. Here's an example:

"The Macerator is an all purpose grinding machine, capable of breaking down many ores and other items into their base components.

For example, the Macerator grinds down one ore block into two dusts, each of which can be smelted into an Ingot (except coal). Easily doubles your mining profits! It uses either a direct Cable connection or an energy storage item (Single-use Battery or RE Battery)

Doubling Mining Effort Edit

If you Macerate specific Ores into dust, you can receive 2 dusts for every ore. For an example, placing 1 Gold Ore in the Macerator will yield you 2 Gold Dusts. If you then place the 2 dusts into a furnace (like you normally would the ore) you'll receive 2 Gold Ingots. This will double your mining efforts for Gold and every other ore you mine"

Does there really have to be 2 whole paragraphs about this? All people need to know is Dusts can be smelted into Ingots and the macerator produces 2 dust from every ore and then people can clearly see that using the macerator gives you more from your ores. IMO this is just spelling out the obvious!

People come here for facts and for a description of what these things do. What mod they're from etc. But the amount of crud that is on this wiki really makes it hard... It's like has anyone looked at the redstone circuits page on the minecraft wiki? Pulse Formers and Monostable circuits are the same thing but they have 2 different sections?!

But yeah my idea is to try and clean up this wiki a bit. It really needs a big clean up IMO and that's what I'm here for =D

Happy Editing!

~Sancarn