DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) is a principle of reusing repeated things in a manner where, if we some day decide to change an aspect, we could change this in just a single place and have the change reflected everywhere it's needed.
Consider the pages for Combuster and Glacius.
Everything under == Damage == under one page is 100% verbatim from the other. If an adjustment was made to change the damage of all brandishes equally, one would have to edit three different pages (if we only consider the 5* weapons) in order to update the relevant info.
Luckily, the SK wiki system has a solution to this, woefully underused.
The process
First you create a page under
http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Templates:Damage_Disclaimer
(chances are I've already done this by the time you're reading.) It contains this text:
"The following damage values represent the weapon at its completed level, without any UV or bonus from other equipment, and listed as a range found from the first to last floor of each stratum."
Now the damage disclaimed can be simply replaced with:
{{Damage_Disclaimer}}
and followed by
{{Damage/Brandish/5/Elemental}}
and it will use the template I've made at
http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Templates:Damage/Brandish/5/Elemental
This also simplifies things like putting status damage tables on weapon pages. All 4* weapons dealing minor fire can simply use http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Template:Damage/Fire/3/Minor like so:
{{Damage/Fire/3/Minor}}
I'll be going over some weapons sharing damage values with this process. Let me know if this will be a problem.
Great. And there are plenty more efficiencies like this to be exploited. For an example pulled from another current thread. Instead of simply listing that a recipe can be found at Basil, we could say which depth of Basil, based on the star level of the recipe. This would preempt some unnecessary forum threads.