User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130517090548/@comment-26975268-20130517181803

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130517090548/@comment-26975268-20130517181803 A list of appearances should most definitely not be created for tea. Tea is so commonplace that you can't even claim to be able to give a complete or near-complete list of tea's appearances in the DWU. When I first started out here (not that long ago, really...), I created mobile phone - list of appearances, which CzechOut immediately objected to here. Read his message to me for more information.

As far as listing all instances of tea, the best FTRW articles derive information from each instance it mentions. Take my recent glass, for example. You can see just from the headings (physical properties, uses, durability) that it's something more than just a long list of every instance of glass in the DWU. Or even the less well-made wood: listing every instance of wood would be ridiculous, so I went through how it could be destroyed, its ineffectiveness on the Doctor's sonic, and its uses.

But, main thing: you should always back up every statement with examples from the DWU:
 * Broken, glass could cut deep through flesh; Lady Casaubon stabbed Orlo with a piece of glass, and then shot him with a glass bullet. (PROSE: Martha in the Mirror)

...gives us more context than simply:
 * Broken, glass could cut deep through flesh. (PROSE: Martha in the Mirror)