Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-43874324-20200911192932/@comment-25117610-20200911204740

I'd say this is a logical extension from "Every unique noun in an article that can be wikified should be wikified. As long as the noun is mentioned in a valid source, an article can be written about it. Minor subjects are okay here; articles should not be deleted simply because they're short."

"As long as the [character] appears in a story, an article can be written about [them]. Minor subjects are okay here; articles should not be deleted simply because they're short". Obviously, we won't want to create an article for, say, every student in this scene from The Pilot; Student 1 (The Pilot), Student 2 (The Pilot), ..., Student 100 (The Pilot)... are not warranted. But if a random-student-who-appears-for-0.5-seconds has as much action as having a line or doing some action that's somewhat the focus of a scene (for example Student (Oxygen) and Student (The Lie of the Land)) I don't see why not.

For the specific case of man in pub, he was deemed noteworthy enough of being in the credits, so why not a Wiki with an unlimited amount of space?