One Question, One Answer. Or Community Wiki?

Question

So I'm a little confused.

Do we try to go for one question, one answer, or maybe a community wiki style? The latter seems more like a database of information rather than a question being answered.

For example,

https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/106407/what-are-the-new-terran-units-in-heart-of-the-swarm-and-how-should-i-use-them

What are the new units in Heart of the Swarm?

https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/106409/what-are-the-new-protoss-units-in-heart-of-the-swarm-and-how-should-i-use-them

Are all different questions that are asking similar but distinctly different questions.

Raven then pointed me to: What are some pros and cons of the different races?

Maybe I just don't understand what a community wiki is or how we should be using it.

I've found What is the Use Case for Community Wiki and read it as well. But I still don't understand why we would take 3 separate questions, each very distinct per race, and turn it into a case where we have it as a community wiki answer.

Answer 1

Do we try to go for one question, one answer, or maybe a community wiki style?

Going for one answer is preferable, unless you want the community to vote separately on each of your answers.

For example, in the remaining question asking for a list of changes, there's no need to have us cast votes on each change. We're here to vote the answer, not the single change; making one answer per change would turn the question into a popularity contest ("omfg yes!!! zerg nerf +1").

On the other hand, consider an hypothetical question asking how to get an item in Minecraft. You can answer this in a few fundamentally different ways:

• Acquire it with the game.
• Cheat your way to creative mode.
• Use /give.

Lumping these completely different approaches in the same answer may or may not make sense based on how you're wording your answer. In this case, you may want to split your knowledge in multiple answers and let the community vote on the fitness of each approach.