User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130517090548/@comment-7302713-20130517183609

That's what I thought. The problem is that some things are really common, but not quite as common as glass. I'm pretty sure that no one thought that it was appropriate to add every single instance of glass to the article, in the same way that no one would add every instance of sidewalk. Unfortunately this has happened with some articles and I've got a handful or two of food articles that I want to overhaul in the most major way, but was held back a bit by just how prevalent "mention every time it shows up" type of articles are.

This is what I thought as this seemed super obvious, but I've been wrong before so I thought I'd ask. If this isn't mentioned anywhere in policy or style articles (I didn't find it but doesn't mean I didn't miss it), I think that this might be helpful. We edit towards ridiculous levels of inclusion here and people seem to think that reduction is bad. It might be worth saying somewhere that no, it isn't always.