Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1317169-20121202170842/@comment-188432-20130111214549

I'm still not getting it. The objective of this thread was, I thought, to combine the two sections. Yet in both MM and TD's attempts, the two sections still remain.

The division between the two sections is false. TD's sidebar notes offer this distinction:
 * 1) Connections = elements of the DWU present in the story
 * 2) Story connections = links to other stories

That's the same thing.

It's a long-held convention of this wiki that the DWU is solely created by narratives. Therefore a link to an "element of the DWU" is by definition a link to a story.

One of TD's "connections" points is "Rose states that there is a piece of Slitheen on display."

Well, that could just as easily be written as a story connection:
 * The appearance of the Slitheen in van Statten's museum serves to remind viewers of the two-parter they'd just finished in World War Three, and to foreshadow the return of Margaret Blaine in Boom Town.

See? Same information, slightly re-contextualised.

So instead of having two sections that are basically the same thing from marginally different perspectives, we really should have just one section, period.

If the information doesn't rise to notability in that section — such as "One of the weapons in Adam's workshop is a hairdryer" — then it simply doesn't make the cut. In TD's Connections section, the following links just don't deserve full sentences: Little Lord Fauntleroy, Minneapolis, Memphis, Seattle, San Diego, Sacramento, hairdryer.

They should either be honestly listed as a "real life concept mentioned in the episode" or not at all. I'd be okay with the final sentence of "Story connections" being:
 * The following real-life concepts were mentioned in this episode: Little Lord Fauntleroy, Minneapolis, Memphis, Seattle, San Diego, Sacramento, and hairdryers.

That way, you get a full sentence, you get the links, but you don't take up a 300px high "block of bulleted nothingness" in the middle of the page.