[WikiEN-l] WP:EPISODE

[Todd Allen]

Bryan Derksen wrote:
> joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu wrote:
>   
>> Ok, I've asked at that page if there is any real consensus for the 
>> guideline. If
>> you have an opinion, feel free to comment. I'm about to go on vacation 
>> now, and
>> will leave therefore thankfully miss any ensuing drama.
>>     
>
> I've chipped in too now, for folks who want a direct link it's at
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Television_episodes#Is_there_any_actual_consensus_for_this_guideline_at_all.3F>.
> I'm of two minds here whether I should start actually reverting and
> restoring some of the more obviously wrong-headed deletions that have
> already been done; on the one hand of course revert-warring is bad, but
> on the other hand I'm worried about the fait accompli gambit that
> appears to be in play here.
>
> Really, this is a stupid overreach of notability-mongering. Any given
> random episode of a show like Scrubs has been seen by millions of people
> and is going to be available in DVD box-sets for years and years to
> come, that _alone_ puts it above 90% of the articles we have about books
> or wee little towns or dead congressmen or what have you. We've got
> articles on hundreds of asteroids that are known only by a few orbital
> parameters in a catalogue someplace and there's nary a complaint. I'm
> extremely annoyed.
>
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You are welcome to B, but I will likely R and start to D. Secondary
sources or not. That applies to asteroids too, but they can always be
listified later.

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