Alex Rosen wrote in part: One reason that this hasn't been spelt out explicitly very much is that the notion that Wikipedia should limit itself to "important" topics has, IME, been at all popular only relatively recently (the past year). The old notion was that, since [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not paper|]], we could (potentially) include articles on every poker variation and every Simpsons character (I mention these examples specifically, since The Lord High Jimbo himself agreed to them on that meta page ^_^). But this idea is less popular now, as we strive to make Wikipedia look more professional. Personally, I wish Sifterpedia were professional (instead of almost nonexistent), Wikipedia remaining relatively expiremental. One should also note the difference between /potential/ articles and stubs that probably won't go anywhere anytime soon. I definitely agree that /most/ Simpsons characters shouldn't have articles at the moment, since we don't have content for those articles. Thus they ought to redirect to a larger article like [[List of Simpsons characters]] (or whatever it's called). But /potentially/, somebody might come along and expand the material, thus creating articles on individual characters that didn't use to have them. That would be a Good Thing (IMO)! but it would also have some opposition now. -- Toby