Board Thread:Wiki Improvements/@comment-4146635-20140101073139/@comment-4717855-20140103201210

Red Compassion, Red Love, Red Hate wrote: I don't think we should decide whether a character has its own page based on the # of episodes it's appeared in, but more by importance. I mean, Tilly and Demonica appeared for about half of the whole episode, I don't think that just because they only came once makes them unimportant.

I mean, if we base it off of the number of episodes a person appears, I know there was this guy playing in the background who played the guitar in Austin's band. Never said one word and only appeared for like the duration of an episode cut song and clearly not enough information for a whole page, barely even a minor section, but he appeared like 2 or 3 times, which proves we can't just base the number of episodes they appear in as "important characters". It's not that they're unimportant, it's that, because they only appear once, there are not too many facts for an article to appear as a legitimate source of information. Obviously, if they do not have a speaking role or do not say much, they will not get an article, regardless of how many times they appear. There is literally no information to put on an article if they do nothing.

I am basically repeating myself over and over and over again, for which I apologize, but I think characters should only get their own page when there is an abundance of information to be posted. When there is too little, we are creating stubs and creating opportunities for assumptions to be passed off as facts.