Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20151029072618/@comment-26469787-20151123071220

CzechOut wrote: So while it's vaguely interesting that six people have voted against the "TBC rule", it's not actionable.

So are you arguing that the potential of change should make a policy invalid? That would pretty much mean the end of any strict policies on this wiki, period. The "TBC rule" has never been followed by anyone who we have currently cited, and we have most definitely not acted as trailblazers. On the other hand, the three qualifiers proposed much earlier are almost universally used, meaning that, regardless of our individual opinions, any person visiting this wiki has a good chance of being able to find information based on this almost universal system. Even if everyone on the wiki refuted the fact that, for example, Invasion (Part One) was part of the serial Invasion of the Dinosaurs, would applying this policy make it accessible to anyone who was new to the wiki or the universe as a whole? Is there any point making arguments for a original system followed by no-one else? I've seen an amount of dismissal and occasionally mocking of DWM's "anal" naming system for the earliest serials and TToaTL, so what is encouraging users to mirror that approach and create a universally inapplicable system?