Thread:Marcusbwfc/@comment-134861-20191129000947

Generally, it's not worthwhile to detail the attacks used in a battle, or even most of the movements of the battle. They should really only be mentioned when it's something critical to explaining the surrounding plot -- for example, Flamedramon using Fire Rocket to damage an enemy can just be called "fighting the enemy", but if his attack is used to melt a glacier and thus causes a flood that sweeps the characters away, that would be worth mentioning the specific actions.

Most of the time, honestly, this kind of thing can be clenched down a bit. Check out my edits to Dragomon (Cyber Sleuth) for an example. We do want to cover everything somewhere, but some of the stuff isn't always informative in a synopsis section.

This also goes for specific phrases a character uses, which is a shortcoming seen on a lot of animanga wikis. Times when you'd want to include the exact words as a quote, or even summarize the exact steps of the conversation at all, would be something that's important to a callback or explaining what happens next -- for example, Cherrymon and Puppetmon's discussion shouldn't be summarized just to "Cherrymon informed Puppetmon of his scheming", because it's important that we mention that Cherrymon mentions that the children have friendship, which is a key theme that then explains why Puppetmon kills Cherrymon. Similarly, if you're familiar with Kingdom Hearts, Xigbar mentioning how Ventus glared at him the same way Xion does, or Xion saying something to Axel that he later echoes word-for-word to Kairi in a specific callback, those would be important to summarize the specific step of the conversation or, if wording is important, quote it directly. 