Surely having an article on every "Rugrats" episode ever (to pick a random example) is overkill?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rugrats_episodes
The list begins as a plain list but descends into a morass of redlinks.
What is the usefulness threshold when it comes to writing episode articles?
Sorry - post title there should have been "Articles for episodes".
On 10/23/06, Earle Martin wikipedia@downlode.org wrote:
What is the usefulness threshold when it comes to writing episode articles?
For me, (a) sufficient sourcing, and (b) sufficient editors willing to work on the articles to lift them above "terrible".
-Matt
On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Earle Martin wrote:
Surely having an article on every "Rugrats" episode ever (to pick a random example) is overkill?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rugrats_episodes
The list begins as a plain list but descends into a morass of redlinks.
What is the usefulness threshold when it comes to writing episode articles?
For quite a long time, the classic quote regarding "Wikipedia is not paper" was that there's no reason we can't have articles on every episode of the Simpsons.
As a result, we are rather stuck with a consensus for episode articles. This is often unfortunate - sometimes exceedingly so. (C.f. the Doctor Who episode articles, which are the main blemish on what would otherwise be one of the few popular culture areas to really lack idiotic fancruft.)
-Phil
Hi,
On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Earle Martin wrote:
Surely having an article on every "Rugrats" episode ever (to pick a random example) is overkill?
Hm. I don't if I have much of an opinion about the idea in the abstract, but I'm pretty sure that [[Chanukah]] shouldn't be a incomprehensible article about an episode of a television show with a disambiguating header to the holiday.
Jkelly
On 10/24/06, Earle Martin wikipedia@downlode.org wrote:
Surely having an article on every "Rugrats" episode ever (to pick a random example) is overkill?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rugrats_episodes
The list begins as a plain list but descends into a morass of redlinks.
Merge, merge, merge. There's no compelling reason why all these substubs need separate articles. Better to lump them together, so the cruft can stay but stay contained.