User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130409112511/@comment-7302713-20130410222351

CzechOut wrote: I think, Anoted, that you have a dangerous misconception of what this wiki is. This is not a wiki about those things which only appear in the DWU. Woah! I never said that. Ok, one thing at a time. Maybe my definition of Whoniverse centric doesn't include a A Christmas Carol, but I do get an insight into the Who world from it. Just like the celery article I mentioned above. So A Christmas Carol is the same book in and out of the Who world, but there are things about it, and about Charles Dickens that only happened in the Whoniverse and reading those articles add to my understanding of the characters I see, the history according to Who and The Doctor. CzechOut wrote: This franchise isn't Star Trek or Star Wars. This is the very domesticated Doctor Who, which is often about how the Doctor impacted some bit of actual Earth history, or just the modern day. Exactly. That's why it's so important to have articles about things which happened a little bit differently in Who, or things that are exactly the same but have some wider import.

Anyway, specifics. I did come here about a specific diff of mine which prompted me to go hunting for redlinking policy. In particular, one line bothered me:

"She then picks up a tablet which shows his name and picture, and sliders marked conscience, paranoia, obedience and IQ."

That's where picks, name, picture, sliders, and marked came from. That's also where the IQ example came from. Anyway, this came right after another line in which the word holiday was redlinked (when holiday was referring to nothing specific). I understand quite clearly the idea that anything mentioned in Who can be an article, but I'd have a hard time reading that line if all of those redlinked words had actual articles. The thread taught me a bit about policy, and has been very helpful. My only remaining question is if there is an excess of linkage, links that are not against the rules, what, if anything should be done? Maybe a fairly good holiday article can be written. But I can't think of any relevance it would have to the article for The Bells of Saint John. There are times when we un-bluelink things, right? When there's no real relevance, correct? So what if I can't see the possible relevance between a redlink and the article it's in. Do I leave it so that the request will remain in the system? Do I leave it because red links are good?

Basically, I'm asking if we have higher standards for de-redlinking than we do re-bluelinking. Hope that clarifies things.