Board Thread:Policies/@comment-10473115-20170415164119/@comment-16461120-20170417192938

If more than a quarter of the active mods/admins independently came to the conclusion that those who "win" oft aren't necessarily the best arguments, rather simply those willing to spend the most time suffering seemingly endless filibusters of comments including being told things like their opinions are meaningless or tolerating people who think "all you really want to do is add a bunch of pictures," somehow doesn't mean exactly what it says, then whether those who claim they don't see it that way want to believe it or not, that’s still the reality for a significant portion of contributors.

As for the " let's get rid of something I don't like just because I don't like it" crowd, maybe the don't like the oversimplification of their argument, but in the same timeframe mentioned above there are those who have advocated removing some or all minor appearances, advocated removing some or all mentions, advocated removing some or all race appearances, advocated removing some or all item appearances, etc. and those are just the ones I can quickly think of off the top of my head. There's no question it's based on personal preference, as having articles featuring referenced content on the wiki doesn't hurt anybody, and may help somebody.

For example, I haven't read Miracleman and very likely never will, but if someone wants to add articles about off-panel characters from that series and track their mentions, that's fine by me, even though the tertiary individuals in question may never have handbook entries or whatever. To use a mainstream example, yes all the content for Van Helsings' Dowsing Rod can be found spread across Cami, Peter, Wade, and Vlad's articles; however, the referenced article specific to a random item may be helpful to someone and it does no harm to the people that aren't interested in contributing to it or won't make use of it, so many of us don't understand the position of those who think less tracking or information on a wiki is somehow better.