Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-9782468-20190501011316/@comment-1207741-20190504223037

It's not the wiki's purpose, no. Which is why we don't need to encourage people to ask questions. But I don't feel we should be turning the questions away either. If somebody wants to use the wiki to ask a question, they should be allowed to. And if the question is dumb or is easily answered, the wiki's editors are allowed to ignore it. Nobody is forced to ask the question, just as nobody is forced to respond.

And as a half-hearted defense of dumb questions:
 * The wiki doesn't document negatives. So you won't find an article that explicitly says "Madara can't use IWR". Ideally a person should be able to take lack of mention as evidence against, but maybe they think the wiki's out of date. Maybe they think the wiki's been vandalized and nobody's corrected it yet. Maybe the schools didn't help them with basic reading skills.
 * The Naruto manga lasted for many years, spanned hundreds of chapters. It can be difficult to remember where specific things were explained. As an example, I've been meaning to rewrite Living Corpse Reincarnation. To prep for eventually doing that, I simply grabbed volumes 20 through 24 because I don't remember which of them actually say anything useful about it. I'm familiar enough with the series to at least narrow it to that range; average users probably wouldn't be sure where to start.
 * Add to this that the wiki's referencing is very poor. The LCR article currently has this line: "Unknown female — for replacing the hand Itachi Uchiha severed". I know where to find a reference for the female body, I know where to find references for the severed hand, but I don't know where to find a reference connecting the two. Because so much of the wiki is without references, it's understandable that readers might have some doubt about its information, in which case they might ask about things that, in our eyes, the wiki's articles adequately explain.