[WikiEN-l] WP:FICT rewrite

[The Cunctator]

On 6/25/07, SonOfYoungwood at aol.com <SonOfYoungwood at aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 6/25/2007 1:35:20 PM Central Daylight Time,
> cunctator at 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.