Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1317169-20121202170842/@comment-1432718-20121204052237

I prefer keeping the two sections separate, as they are now. I don't like bulleted lists and tables; complete sentences are more encyclopediac. I like the renamed ideas given in the original thread:
 * "Continuity" becomes >> "Canon and continuity"
 * "References" becomes >> "DWU references"

Personally I am against the "dumbing down" of the wiki. Every new user starts out not knowing the rules, and with enough editing can learn. And there are plenty of editors that check recent changes to correct mistakes. There's nothing wrong with the current system and no need to change it so drastically.

In the earlier thread someone stated that "continuity" and "references" were the same thing. They're not. I recently added many things to the reference sections of pages, trying to link to orphaned pages, and some of them are just one-off mentions that don't appear in other stories. Therefore they are not the same as continuity.

Finally, I agree with Tangerineduel that the MemoryAlpha list is awful. I think we don't want something like that.