[WikiEN-l] WP:FICT rewrite

[SonOfYoungwood at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/26/2007 1:52:30 PM Central Daylight Time,  
cunctator at gmail.com writes:

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.



With those Law and Order episodes, however, there is probably sufficient  
secondary sources (ratings, criticism/reviews, etc). The main problem at hand,  
like Aldebaer said, are little articles on every aspect of fiction, and even  
giant lists of minor characters or places - stuff that cannot even get a single 
 ounce of secondary coverage and is not necessary for a general understanding 
 otherwise.



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