Thomas Dalton wrote:
I think the infoboxes help a lot there. A lot of them
include episode
numbers, links to previous and next episodes, etc, which make it quite
clear that they are just one of many.
All of the episode articles in this recent purge that I've looked at in
detail already had well-developed infoboxes and categories grouping them
together, but clearly that didn't save them. I suspect it merely allowed
them to be "rooted out" more efficiently.
I think it would be best to establish once and for all that, _by
itself_, "non-notability" is not a particularly good reason to delete
anything. Lack of verifiability, sure - that's something that can be
more objectively determined and that will still eliminate much of the
problem cases that deletionists are concerned about. But notability is
simply too subjective.
And, as my own personal dream solution, I'm sacrificing another chicken
this Christmas to hopefully bring about some flavor of version flagging
that allows people who are fundamentally offended by the inclusion of
stuff that doesn't interest them to make it vanish from their sight
without affecting those who still want to see it. Sort of like how we've
already got CSS tricks to allow redlinks to be banished on a
person-by-person basis, or stub templates, or spoiler templates, thereby
allowing those things to peacefully coexist with the users that despise
them. *wistful sigh*