Zombie Attack Response Guide/Talk

So why is this page here? Is there useful information? Are joke pages to be encouraged? {M. King}

If the Davis Wiki is a public square, this is people splashing in the fountain or a guy plucking on a guitar in the corner singing semi-bawdy lyrics. If the people in the fountain grow to a number they drive off the people who came to the public space to enjoy, it is a problem. Does this seem to you to be obscuring the useful entries? (And no, that's not a rhetorical question, it's an honest request for your assessment, as the community determines this kind of stuff, and you're part of that). Otherwise, a bit of play in the public square generally generates a smile as people pass it by. (The presence of pets on the wiki probably falls under the same reasoning... people like animals and are willing to give them a pass to appear publically... we're a bunch of people making a community space, and the end result reflects the humanity involved). —Evan 'JabberWokky' Edwards

This page is potentially innovative if you consider it to be a fictional introduction to Davis. Zombies may not be real, but the subject is used in a way that brings many elements of the Davis landscape into one coherent exposition (I doubt the authors intended that, however). Fiction can be just as revealing, or more, about people and places as can dull, dry descriptive text. I don't personally find this page very entertaining (although I've only 10-second-skimmed it), but I'm sure a lot of people do. For what little I know about this wiki, I haven't seen any restrictions on fiction. If the wiki gets cluttered with this type of thing, it might at some point be a good idea to develop a convention to separate the fiction from non-fiction, but for now, it seems unnecessary to discourage creative writing about Davis. —TAL

You're right about the entertaining part, the page could definitely get some work there. But it was intended to have some sort of artistic meaning. It takes the ordinary, everyday Davis, and transforms it into a place where you have to scavenge to survive. Simply putting your environment in that mindset can expand your worldview. Besides, we've had short stories on the wiki since 2004, and poetry since 2005. I think there's room for many more creative works. After all, we're not The Other Wiki. —BrentLaabs