User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20121212231649/@comment-1209840-20121218162012

Minimitch wrote: ''Yes I do. One any wiki I go on and I see that there is discussion on the talk page, I usually go and see what is on the page. ''

Casual readers don't, and any wiki should be written in a way that is easy for casual readers to navigate. This wiki, in so many ways, is designed to be intimidatingly difficult for casual and even experienced users to use.

''You are still missing the point that myself, CzechOut, Shambala108, Tangerineduel and Imamadman have say. If the story is non DWU it cannot have continuity. It is impossible. ''

And you're missing the point that Imamadmad, OttselSpy25, and myself have stated. Stop worrying about the word continuity. If a story builds directly on plot elements from a previous story, and that's something that's considered worth mentioning in most articles, it's something that deserves mentioning in all articles. You don't have to call it "continuity" if you don't want (although that is the proper term). Call it "references to other stories."

''Having links to the pages would encourages editors to add information from the story. For example, if Death Comes to Time has a link to beer, then someone might edit the article to include what happened with beer in the story - which cannot happen.''

Exactly why, ignoring how silly the example is, would it break the wiki to have an article titled "Beer (Death Comes to Time)" or a section within the general Beer article titled "Beer in non-valid sources?" As long as the reader is advised that this beer doesn't exist in other, subsequent stories, how would it cause confusion?

This wiki does not consist solely of in-universe articles; most articles have out-of-universe sections describing the real-life decisions of editors, show runners, cast members, the press, and so on. There's plenty of room to use sections of articles to discuss story references in even the most out-of-continuity story.