[WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

[WJhonson at aol.com]

It's a question of the amount of coverage we want to give to fiction  
details.
Let's say we have an article on Superman, and also on each of the various  
Superman comic runs that have appeared in the past 50 years.
Now make an article on *each* comic issue, and then in that article  
describe the plot, characters, moral, date, number of issues, etc.
*Now* for each character make an article for them, describing each issue  
they were in, with the plot details, and link them all together.
You'd have something like three to twenty thousand articles on  Superman.
Many people would see that as overwhelming in scope and most relevant for a 
 specialist work.
 
Will Johnson
 
 
 
In a message dated 8/18/2009 8:56:15 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
Cathy.Edwards at bbc.co.uk writes:

I think  I have a good idea why BLP are a hot topic of debate in this
area, but why  do you think fiction is contentious - because it's in
danger of unbalancing  the encyclopedia?