Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1212909-20180430225012

I've been looking at the articles for Silk Manipulation, Silk Generation and Web Generation, and... well, I readily admit that I'm a newbie to this site and thus unfamiliar with how things work here, but I've noticed a few problems with them.

First, the names and lead sections of the first two powers imply clear distinctions between them: The first power is only about manipulating silk, while the second power is only about generating silk. The two may and often do coincide with each other, but can very well not do so; both cases can be seen in the history of comic book superhero character Spider-Man, who originally relied on mechanical web-shooters and an artificial silk formula, both of his own design, but at some points in his long history he was granted the power to generate organic silk from his own body (conveniently, the apertures from which the silk comes out are located right around where he'd wear his web-shooters).

... However, the Capabilities section of Silk Manipulation explicitly starts off with "User can create, shape and manipulate silk", which means that creation of the silk is also an integral part of the power... but that is contradicted in the same article by the Limitations section, which says that a user "[m]ay be unable to create silk, being limited to shaping from already existing sources."

As for Web Generation, it's described in the lead section as being a sub-power of Silk Manipulation, when logically it should be a sub-power of Silk Generation. And even putting that aside, I can't really figure out what sets Web Generation apart from Silk Generation, especially since the Also Called section includes "Silk Spinning" as an alternate name. (Bear in mind that Web Constructs exists as a distinct power.)

So, with that said, I need two questions answered:

1. Am I correct in assuming that the articles for Silk Manipulation and Silk Generation need tweaking to remove the contradictory overlap issue explained above?

2. What differentiates Web Generation from Silk Generation? 