Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1317169-20121202170842/@comment-6433721-20130317013727

And I think you're misinterpreting my defense of bullet points. I agree they're overused. I just think they have their place, and we shouldn't get rid of them entirely.

For a well-written paragraph, you must make the concepts flow together with other concepts. A bunch of single sentence paragraphs about disparate things will just be a bullet list without bullets, and that doesn't look very good, either. We should leave a place for bullet points, and keep it small by making sure if it links up in any way, it goes into a prose section.

I don't want to lose the throwaway references. These are things that would break the flow of the plot section and aren't part of clusters of information, like Ten mentioning the causal nexus in The End of Time or Lance mentioning the Atkins Diet.

For example, The Girl in the Fireplace and banana daiquiri. Off the top of his head Joe Editor can't think of a connection to other episodes. Joy Editor only likes Eleven, so she saw the banana in Let's Kill Hitler but missed the banana in the Girl in the Fireplace. Neither saw The Doctor Dances. Neither of them thinks to go to the banana page, because there isn't a link to it on either story at this point... And now maybe there won't be, because Joe doesn't know where to put it so he gives up. And the great Banana Theory of the Doctor's Past goes up in a puff of... Well, silliness.