Talk:Hasbro Q&A/October-November 2008

Is there a way to have the questions and answers on the same page? The current layout draws in the reader with these interesting questions, but makes it extremely aggravating and time consuming to try and get to the answers. For example, I clicked on the 16bit answers link, and it takes me to the main page of the site, which I've never heard of before much less been do. I have no idea where on this site the answers are kept, and I don't feel like clicking around for 20 minutes looking for them. Why not just post the answers directly beneath each question? Rose.T 11:39, 15 June 2009 (EDT)

If we post other sites' answers, we are technically stealing content and traffic from them.--Rosicrucian^Talk 11:44, 15 June 2009 (EDT)

Not touching the main matter, since I've already stated my thoughts on it, but her complaint about being lost clicking around trying to find the answers I think brings up at least one good point. We should always have direct deep links to where the answers are on each site instead of making people have to search through a site. (Since even when you are familiar with a site it can be hard to find a single exact forum or news post, especially if its old.) --Jeysie 12:22, 15 June 2009 (EDT)

On the other hand, we certainly can (and should, and do) reference these answers, when relevant, on the appropriate pages. So, if TransformersRule.com asks 'why does G1 Scourge have a beard', and Hasbro says 'he keeps extra sensors in there', we'd have every reason to add that as a trivia note to Scourge's page, along with a reference to the specific area on TransformersRule.com. So, the question-and-answer as content, yes, we should probably not 'steal', but the answers themselves should be integrated into the wiki. --Jimsorenson 12:29, 15 June 2009 (EDT)

Which, were relevant, we certainly already do. The etiquette is that where possible we stick a footnote on it linking back to the relevant Q&A answers on the site that asked the question.--Rosicrucian^Talk 16:53, 15 June 2009 (EDT)

16bit's news posting system is dumbtarded. There's no way to direct-link to individual postings. (Man, I HATE redirects to front pages. Who DOES that? Don't they realize they LOSE traffic by pulling people away from what they came there to see, causing them to give up and leave?) -- Repowers 12:31, 15 June 2009 (EDT)

Well, I still want to know the answer to #2 in 16bit's Oct '08 questions, and for the life of me I can't find it. And if it's a matter of 'stealing' content, how come the questions and answers are posted on tfwiki's May 2009 page, but not the Oct 2008 page? How come it's not 'stealing' content to re-post the questions verbatum, but posting the answers is? (On a side note, honestly, I didn't even know these Q&A things existed, until I saw it linked from the main site of the wiki this morning.) Rose.T 16:38, 15 June 2009 (EDT)

I don't follow this comment, admittedly. We don't have the other sites' answers posted here at all. We do have the answers to the questions our site asked posted here, and the reason we don't have any for the Oct 2008 Q&A is because we didn't participate in that one.

And it's not stealing to repost the questions because that's only half the information; you still have to visit the other sites to read the answers. Not only that, but having an archive of questions helps make it so that we, at least, won't accidentally repeat questions that have already been asked and answered. --Jeysie 16:47, 15 June 2009 (EDT)

Oh my bad, I see now that the Q's with A's I was reading were all from this site specifically. I understand the reasoning behind not stealing content, now that it's been explained. I'm mostly just annoyed with the extremely poor layout/navigation of the 16bit site (I never did find those answers.) Rose.T 17:28, 15 June 2009 (EDT)

It's on the page we're linking to about a third of the way down. Do a search on that page for "Transformers Q&A with Hasbro" and you should find it. --abates 18:08, 15 June 2009 (EDT)