Table:Notability

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Wikipedia has a notability requirement, but as a rule, we shouldn't. The problem is... I can sense that there is a certain limit on notability that please like Wookiepedia and Memory Alpha does not have. I mean, think about it, Coolio was a guest star on Futurama twice... surely he deserves an article, albeit short, but he is certainly worth it.

And for that reason, I think we should go back to the deep down simplified; "if it is related to official Futurama work, then there can be an article". --SvipTalk 15:17, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

This has been my belief from the beginning. Minutiae is our bread and butter here. The whole point is to be as detailed as possible about anything and everything Futurama. I figure that, as we write articles, just about every noun (especially Proper Nouns) (and even some verbs) should be a link. Eventually there will be enough to fill up the "Wanted Pages" list, and we start creating them. In fact, when I first started, the Wanted Pages list was my main way of choosing what pages to work on next. A lot of these minor articles are going to be stubs at first, but surely we can fill them in (alternatively, we could just classify them as "minor" and forgo the "stub" markings. I mean, if we've written all there is and it's still short, what more can we do? --Buddy 02:43, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Stubs and minor articles are in my book two different things. A stub is an article that could possibly be longer. A minor article is an article that may not be able to be much longer. But this is also a reason I proposed the redirect rule, cause most of the stuff we could (and should) have articles about. But even guest stars needs an article.
Imagine this; a reader wants to know what it was Coolio did on the show, cause he knows Coolio did something, but not entirely sure what, then bam! There is an article, and everything is clear. It works for mostly any subject Futurama touches. Just like the French article, sure we mention French when it is appropriate in articles, but what if you wanted an overview from the "French perspective"? Well, now you can. --SvipTalk 09:54, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Originally if it was very small we attempted to put it in a shared article, but there was only a hundred-odd articles back then and we still hadn't completed the episodes. I'm still fairly sure we should avoid fanfics/fanart but everything else can have a place. - Quolnok 12:09, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
This is why I specified the statement, "if it is related to official Futurama work, it can have an article". That includes episodes, comics, the game, merchandise and other work by people officially recognised by Futurama. The last may require individual consideration. --SvipTalk 12:25, 15 April 2009 (UTC)