Forum:Seeking Mr Eaten's Name and content dumps

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I'm curious whether I should be posting all the Seeking Mr Eaten's Name content as I've encountered it. The other wiki had some developer feedback on this; see Seeking Mr Eaten's Name (on echobazaar.wikidot.com), especially revision 88. Relevant text:

Those Guidelines request players not to "[reproduce content] in a way that allows people to read through it in a narratively coherent way, as if they were actually playing it in-game… without actually playing it in-game!" The previous version of the page didn't take account of this request.

This is particularly important to us here: the Mr Eaten's Name storyline is an experimental project with a very specific artistic intention, and we're keen that it have the intended effect… whether or not that's an effect everyone prefers.

The story, so far, is a pursuit of secret knowledge at the expense of resources, friends, sanity, etc.; I guess the point is kind of lost when the results can be read on a wiki. It might be more - respectful? - to omit the 'story', as such, and leave the mechanics intact. Anyway, thought I'd open this for discussion.

Jemann 00:55, March 29, 2012 (UTC)

OK, this issue popped up again with the new Mr Eaten content (Marsh-Mired in Dreams of Sustenance). Various posts on the official forums were 'consumed' (for revealing too much?); some articles here (e.g. In dark waters) were likewise cleared. I'm still not sure whether the edits here were official or not, but I thought it worth asking a Failbetter dev for their thoughts. Here's the response:

We're not formally restricting Mr Eaten copy the way we do Nex-locked copy, but we would like to see it obscured and enigmatic. So anything you (voluntarily) want to do as wiki admin, from deleting the whole shebang to mixing it up to deleting key segments, would be very welcome.

So there you go. I've been documenting my progress and will start adding it, but with the descriptive text mostly removed. Still not sure whether to record the mechanics (e.g. unlocks, item/stat changes) faithfully and accurately; I'd prefer not to record misinformation, but it could be fun to exercise some creativity. Jemann (talk) 00:16, November 30, 2012 (UTC)