Thread:MrBlonde267/@comment-395229-20121214074730/@comment-16487016-20121214092633

If you want an example of condensed summaries, I've recently been working on a lot of them here at Richard Grayson (New Earth). Dick Grayson is a great example of a character who appears in so many things at once that it would be unreadable to list complete issue blow-by-blows for all of his appearances. Let's look directly at the storyline Batman and Robin: Batman Reborn. On Grayson's page, it simply says this:

His first mission with Damian Wayne as Robin involves Professor Pyg and the Circus of Strange, who they stop from spreading drug addiction like a virus and turning people into Dollotrons.

That's all of the essential information, and there's a footnote that links to the storyline page if people want to read more in-depth. Even the storyline page is summarized so it can be read more easily, and then the individual issues like give a blow-by-blow description.

You can see how the character page itself would be completely unreadable if we used blow-by-blow summaries for every appearance of Dick Grayson, who has over 1200 post-crisis appearances alone. I appreciate that you want to keep the page as updated as possible, but when you keep adding blow-by-blows like that it very quickly makes the pages unreadable in that way. I can't be expected to go in and cut the word count down every time you post something huge, because I have a life outside of this site and I don't get paid to work here... I'm already overwhelmed adding good content without having to also worry about fixing bad content. That's why we have a zero-tolerance policy.

If you're having difficult figuring out how to summarize big events, try making bullet points of the most important things that happened and then just work those into a sentence or two.