On 6/25/07, SonOfYoungwood@aol.com SonOfYoungwood@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 6/25/2007 1:35:20 PM Central Daylight Time, cunctator@gmail.com writes:
THANK you. This is the type of unhelpful guideline that only serves to encourage people to delete well-written, interesting, and useful content from Wikipedia because they personally don't like it.
Actually, the WP:FICT rewrite strongly discourages deletion and highly suggests using other methods, such as merging, transwiki, or cleanup. The fact of the matter is that notability on Wikipedia is established by coverage in secondary sources.
Sometimes, but not always. The important thing to recognize is if a work of fiction can be judged notable then it shouldn't be necessary for every element to be discussed outside before its inclusion in Wikipedia.
In other words, to write about Law and Order episodes you should have to demonstrate that the series is notable. Then you can write about individual episodes and characters as long as you cite the episodes themselves.
That's a sufficient and reasonable notability policy that excludes nonsense material from Wikipedia without unnecessarily removing useful information from Wikipedia or burdening interested editors with the fear that their work will be deleted by someone with an axe to grind about how lame television, comic books, or video games are.