Forum:SH Archive/Random conjectural space-cloggers

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I really don't like this tendency of making up garbage conjecture articles for every bit of trivial background data. They just take up space with hot air and serve no useful function. I think we need some sort of policy or guideline along the lines of: if there's nothing noteworthy to say about an item, then we don't need an article about it.

I don't necessarily mind placeholder-entitled articles based around something that is obviously noteworthy (see Four unnamed Imperial Royal_Guards), nor of course I am I opposed to stub articles where we don't know much beyond the name (see Dalla the Hutt). But an article should satisfy at least one of these, and too many articles don't seem to have either.

A prime example is the blue lizard of Endor--the article itself admits the critter is not named, so why bother making a conjectural article for something so incredibly minor and uber-obscure? This creature fails any sort of notability test I can imagine. Another example is the Kuat battlecruiser--it's so nonspecific as to be nearly useless, and the BTS conjecture is very nearly as long as the article proper.

I've been hitting a bunch of articles with VFDs, but tackling this on an individual basis seems like trying to stem a tide with a thimble. Am I the only one who doesn't think that not every funky bug in Tales of the Jedi requires an article unto itself?--Valin Kenobi 08:35, 4 November 2006 (UTC)