Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1317169-20121202170842/@comment-188432-20121204055523

I've got an open mind about this stuff. I very much take on board Tangerineduel and Shambala108's point that a Memory Alpha-like bullet-pointing of simple links will not be sufficient. TD has stood firm on this point since at least 2008. Solutions would have to involve some sort of compromise in which things start in a collapsed state, but then pop up into true, full sentences. There's a middle ground between what exists now and something that has a little design flare and SMW practicality.

However I gotta draw a line in the sand about something Shambala just mentioned.


 * Under no circumstances — ever — will the word "canon" appear as a section title.

We've been trying for years to get rid of that damned word, and we're not turning back now. Our canon policy is that there is no canon. With that in mind, we can't very well go adding a section called "canon and continuity" to pages.

I'd also point out that there is no meaningful syntactical difference between "DWU references" and "continuity". That denotational truth has always been at the root of the problem with having two sections.