Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130409112511/@comment-7302713-20130409191710

It's not about the redlink being ugly. Or even that I don't think the article would be valuable, though I admit I really can't see value of a lot of those potential articles. It's not that I have an issue with the ability of anything to because an article. I don't. My issue is that policy allows for everything to become an article. If I read an episode article in which every unique word is a link to an article about that word, that's just too much. If there are a half dozen links in every sentence, then I never know when something important is linked. I guess I also see a difference between an article not about something directly related to the whoniverse and an article that doesn't provide any insight into the whoniverse. An article about IQ for example could tell me about the characters whose IQs are important enough to be mentioned. Maybe also the Doctor's opinion of intelligence and how he reacted to particularly high or low intelligence. It might help me put in context Oswald's changed intelligence and Kislet's control of it. Helping me put things into context or deepening my understanding of how a particularly subject is treated in the whoniverse seems of value. Sure, maybe the article isn't directly about something whoniverse centric but it can still be of use. My issue is with that there's nothing differentiating creating an article on "IQ" from creating an article on "important". Sure, there's lots of potential material for the later. Various things that are important to various characters. But it wouldn't deepen my understanding of how a character or the show treats things that are "important." It can't give me a sense of anything over-arching. It doesn't add anything to my understanding of "interesting" and Doctor Who. I guess that's my concern.