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::"Lokiofmidgaard, what you are saying is that you want there to be wrong names on the wiki and it is fine as long as they link to the correct page? " No, I'd prefer the names to be right. But I also prefer that when there is a common incorrect name that it gets the person searching to the right page, rather than have people unable to find articles. There should be a page for "Peter Davidson" that gets the person searching for the actor who played the fifth Doctor to [[Peter Davison]]. [[User:Lokiofmidgaard|Lokiofmidgaard]] 10:15, June 24, 2010 (UTC) | ::"Lokiofmidgaard, what you are saying is that you want there to be wrong names on the wiki and it is fine as long as they link to the correct page? " No, I'd prefer the names to be right. But I also prefer that when there is a common incorrect name that it gets the person searching to the right page, rather than have people unable to find articles. There should be a page for "Peter Davidson" that gets the person searching for the actor who played the fifth Doctor to [[Peter Davison]]. [[User:Lokiofmidgaard|Lokiofmidgaard]] 10:15, June 24, 2010 (UTC) | ||
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::Cut it out with the proposed deletions. And this time, lets discuss this rather than just automatically deleting it - I notice the distinct lack of manners of those who want the page deleted, ignoring the debate once they'd gotten the entry prematurely deleted mid-discussion. I said above that if the page was deleted, people would just reinstate it, and looking at the history you'll see that I was right - it's been deleted something like four times now, and each time someone new has come along to remake it. Since contributors to the page presumably are people in favour of keeping it, you'll see they outnumber the four who seem to favour deletion. The consensus seems to be for keeping it. The arguements for deleting it seem to be "there's not much info here" - well, that's going to change over time; and "the name might change so we shouldn't even create a page until the episode airs". That falls down on many counts. Practical: unless you lock the page, people will just keep recreating it. Policy - the site doesn't have any "don't create in case the name changes" policy, so this seems to be a personal desire of three or four editors, at odds with a larger number of editors. Belief of ownership - "if we make it and the name changes then I don't want to have to fix a load of links" - who made it '''your''' job to fix the links? If you don't like doing it, let other people handle it. Accuracy (if the name changes) - first, the arguement that it might change names frankly hits almost every article - Amy Pond might now be Amy Williams for instance. Are we to wait until a character has finished appearing before we make a page for them, just in case the info changes? Because if so this wiki should be empty, since books and audios mean we can never be sure we've seen the last of a character and know for sure that their status quo won't alter. And truthfully, while accuracy is to be strived for, this is also a wiki - the ability for anyone to edit means you will always get errors and have to work to fix them. [[User:Lokiofmidgaard|Lokiofmidgaard]] 18:24, June 29, 2010 (UTC) | |||
