[WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/8/18  <WJhonson at aol.com>:
> It's a question of the amount of coverage we want to give to fiction
> details.
> Let's say we have an article on Superman, and also on each of the various
> Superman comic runs that have appeared in the past 50 years.
> Now make an article on *each* comic issue, and then in that article
> describe the plot, characters, moral, date, number of issues, etc.
> *Now* for each character make an article for them, describing each issue
> they were in, with the plot details, and link them all together.
> You'd have something like three to twenty thousand articles on  Superman.
> Many people would see that as overwhelming in scope and most relevant for a
>  specialist work.

Yes, that is one side of the argument. It doesn't explain why the
argument exists and is so prevalent.