[WikiEN-l] WP:EPISODE

[White Cat]

That was the old structure of wikipedia. in 2002 I think. Bad idea.

   - White Cat

On Dec 30, 2007 10:25 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the disagreement is where appropriate ends. Do we toss out our
> notability and reliable sourcing guidelines in order to have complete
> sets of articles? This morning I thought about it this way:
>
> When you hear of a project that has a complete description of every
> episode of every TV show, all significant (and most insignificant)
> characters, as well as all associated trivia - do you think Wikipedia,
> or something else? If that vision brings to mind Wikipedia for you,
> then you have a very different idea of accumulating the knowledge of
> humanity for open access than I do.
>
> Maybe I'm way out in left field about this, but I think at the most we
> should include general descriptions of the most popular shows (if we
> have to, and if it meets all of our other guidelines). If people want
> to elaborate on individual episodes of merit (argh) then they should
> do it like this:
>
> [[24_(TV_Show)/Episodes/The_World_is_Saved_part_909349]] so each
> episode does not get its individual article, and can not be separated
> from the main show. This also makes it easier to manage each show
> because you can just do an index of the directory 24_TV_show/Episodes/
> rather than searching and making sure the same episodes aren't listed
> under different names, etc.
>
> Nathan
>
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