User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130406191339/@comment-188432-20130406235416

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130406191339/@comment-188432-20130406235416

Thanks for the suggestion. However, it won't be implemented. Crewing is as vital to this wiki as casting. You might find it a colossal waste of space, but others don't. We've only begun to scratchthe surface with the massive amount of information we've collected because of these crew boxes, and it would disturb that collection process to move it to a subpage. Other pages—like Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner, executive producer and tons more—depend on the crew boxes being just where they are.

From a data-mining standpoint, the crew boxes are the absolute crown jewel of this wiki. As far as I'm aware, there simply is no better database of the crew of the BBC Wales DWU than this wiki. Nobody else can tell you which episodes had Ernie Vincze as DOP and Euros Lyn as director and Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor. But we can. Instantly:

Wanna find out which RTD-written Tenth Doctor stories had James Strong as a director and Vincze as DOP? Easy. It's:

So, no. We won't be throwing that away just cause it takes less than a second to scroll over it. Everyone kinda has their "most important" part of the story pages. I personally would trash the plot sections. Who cares what this wiki's estimation of the plot is? But tons of people love that section, so it stays. As you know, we're still debating the utility of the continutiy sections. But the one part of these story pages—other than the infobox and category listing—that I can instantly prove is useful is the crew section.