Question for my fellow shrine writers: Do you like to explain all of the backstory of something, assuming the reader will mostly just be reading your page? Or do you link to other/better explanations? Sometimes I just want to get to the fun obscure part so I link wikipedia, but I don't know if anyone ever actually follows that.
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I always (wrongfully) assume that anyone visiting my shrine already knows what the thing I'm talking about is but I still want to do an introduction out of politeness so I write a pretty simple summary of the story of the thing at the start and then I get to the actually interesting part
i've personally enjoyed lots of shrines that have done both!!
I skim a wiki of the summary if im having a hard time finding my own words for it, then i link it! Sometimes depending kn what it is, i link the actual source material