User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-36547172-20200215112917/@comment-6032121-20200215224014

As I admitted myself, I am not actually arguing against detailed plot summaries; I am saying that if we were starting the Wiki just now I'd be of the opinion that we don't need them. But they're there, and that's that, and I respect that.

Not entirely sure what the majority readers not editing pages, and caring about current Doctor Who more than anything else, has to do with this matter, though. I'm not saying readers are more likely to check out Soldeed than Can You Hear Me? here, I am hypothesizing that all else being equal, they are more likely to check out the Biography section of Yasmin Khan (or Zellin, or Thirteenth Doctor) than either.

The summary of things in the order they happen in the story is not something that someone who has just watched the ruddy thing would need, I should imagine. The use of a Wiki is to have hub pages about characters and concept, which readers (whether they edit or not!) can check to see what they just watched put in the wider context of the Doctor Who universe.

Again, just musing about theoretical importance here, not telling anyone what they should or shouldn't edit.