Question
Is this a spoof page? "21st century individuals, Individual birds" and a mute background pigeon in shot, now warrants its own page? Huh. FractalDoctor ☎ 21:28, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
- I agree. Something in the background that isn't even named shouldn't warrant a page. Maybe a mention on the Pigeon page, but definitely not a separate page. Shambala108 ☎ 23:38, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
- Mmh. I'm not sure. Or at least, I think we need to think of a more precise criterion than "something in the background that isn't named shouldn't warrant a page". For example, we often, quite rightly, have pages for members of recurring alien species who make background cameos in episodes not primarily about that species. Pages like Hath (The Magician's Apprentice). We obviously want to keep those pages.
- Pigeon (The Christmas Invasion) isn't a very useful page. But it would be a good page if, instead of a pigeon, this creature had been, say, a flying stingray. Can we delete pages about members of species from the real world, but not ones about fictional creatures, without breaking T:NPOV? I mean, we can, we shouldn't be slaves to precedent in obviously silly cases. But we shouldn't create bad precedent I either. I propose that we create a note on a policy page of the different standards for unnamed background members of fictional vs. real species, and then delete this page on those grounds.
- Minor as this is, changing policy is a serious affair, so I suggest leave this open for a few days in case anyone disagrees, barring which, I'll make the note and merge this page into Pigeon. Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 10:51, 5 August 2022 (UTC)