Talk:Earth - List of appearances/Archive 1

Blimey, loads of appearances! User:Trikster87 - 16:25 - 28th January 2010

Prop delete
Trickster87 has a point. It's exactly why I think it should be deleted. The subject is simply too ubiquitous in DW storytelling to create a list that imparts interesting information. Now, List of stories in which Earth doesn't appear might be an article worth having. But not this one. If a thing is in practically every story, it's a "given" and so therefore doesn't deserve a list. The approach for these kind of articles should be to go for the negative, so that we get lists that are shorter, and therefore more digestible. At least make this thing a table, for heaven's sake.  Czech Out  ☎ | ✍ 16:59, April 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * That would entirely depend on which set of stories you follow. I found it somewhat interesting looking along the list of TV stories (despite the fact just looking at said stories I know which ones the Earth featured in).
 * Doesn't it depend on what information you're seeking? The length of the list, which stories are included and which ones are lacking in the list imparts some information.
 * Aside from the length of the list is there anything wrong with having a negative and positive list (aside from the precedent that would set). --Tangerineduel 17:20, April 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * I have to agree with the 'loads of appearances' reason, since Earth appears in nearly every story, it'd probably be better to have that List of stories in which Earth doesn't appear article. --Dalek036 09:59, May 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * I think it is fine. As long as it is kept up to date it should be kept. There is nothing wrong with it. ☆ The  Solar  Dragon  ( Talk ) ☆ 21:58, May 15, 2010 (UTC)

Just an idea, could you use a category page to make the list? You could keep both pages and have them updated as the pages are written. Or is this a bad idea? XD LockeNCole 22:44, May 24, 2010 (UTC)

Well, what is going on then? It it being kept or not? 21:44, June 5, 2010 (UTC)

Since there has been no further arguments about deleting this, should the delete template be removed? ☆ The   Solar   Dragon  07:33, July 5, 2010 (UTC)

Renewed call for deletion
Well here we are a year later and this page is still clinging to life. And it's no better than it was this time last year. Solar Dragon's proviso "as long as it is kept up to date it should be kept" has been given a chance, but, as we can see, it's failed. This is stil basically just a list of televised stories occurring on Earth.

For this list to come close to being valuable, it would have to contain all stories from all media — but clearly no one is actually interested in coming close to that goal. We're talking hundreds and hundreds of stories — virtually every story ever told in the DWU.

This thing should be deleted cause it's little more than a failed experiment. 00:21:50 Sat 04 Jun 2011


 * Could we not convert the list into tables, and have two colums. One for the episodes and another for where about on Earth the story is set. If not, we could keep the page, but have more sub pages, such as Europe, Asia, etc. And sub pages to them for countries, then cities? Mini-mitch\talk 12:53, June 4, 2011 (UTC)

We could go down that route and list the appearances of everything, but then, when does it stop. I think we should just delete this. Skittles the hog-- Talk 13:00, June 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm going against my earlier response and say it should be deleted. Mostly because I agree with Skittles the hog, we could just endlessly have lists of appearances off stuff.
 * Mini-mitch I think we could have sub-pages of everything you suggest, but keeping it up to date is another thing and with all those subpages would anyone navigate beyond the first layer of subpages? We've already got categories which have those various structures in them. --Tangerineduel / talk 13:16, June 4, 2011 (UTC)