Forum:CT Archive/"If it an item does not exist, then there is no article!"

Ick. Allow me to throw up, please.

Sorry. I just had to get that out of my system. I saw the Bobo article. Wait...what's that you say? Article? We have an article on an alias? That's right kids. An Encyclopedia article on an alias. Lemme tell you can stick your alias articles. On the aliasee's article. In a peripheral section. I must sound like a broken record. It's not encyclopedic to have an article on something that does not exsist. That's not to say that we can't cover the topic, it's just to say that these kind of things should, by all means, be put in the peripheral section of another article. I know that many of you have an attatchment to Nostril of Palpatine, but let's toe the line somewhere, people. That belongs in a section of the Superweapon article.

Exceptions would be elaborate hoaxes and things that really do exsist, but Saxton decided that he didn't feel like having them fit into his bizzaro semi-realistic fantasy world of ILM models. But, for god's sake, it's not an article unless you can make an article out of it. If the Lando Calrissian walks into a bar and gives his name as Sylvester Sheckshingall, that doesn't mean that we should have an article on it. If Palpatine starts spouting out hypothetical names for the Death Star, that doesn't warrant an article either. Otherwise, where's the Katarn's beard, or Freaking Sweet Hat articles? They're red. Bobo, Bimkall Sector (yeah, I'm targeting errors too...relegate that to the HNN article), should be too.

For

 * 1) .  .  .  .  00:16, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Imp http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/e/e5/ATATatarismall.png 00:33, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Chack Jadson 00:19, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Green Tentacle (Talk) 00:21, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Follow something like the Jaina Solo article. 00:24, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Per Xwing. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( Audience Chamber ) 00:29, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 7) Is this really rocket science? tzzA 01:05, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 8)  Stake black   msg 01:24, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 9) I don't care for the hypothetical Nostril of Palps having an article.  Was thinking about that earlier today.  -Fnlayson 01:37, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 10) Ja -- Titan Talk to me, damn it! 02:17, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Against

 * Darth Culator (Talk)(Kills) 01:19, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) The Broox 01:24, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) SFH 01:38, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Comments
Still, I suppose it's like Alan Smithee... .  .  .  .  02:20, 9 April 2007 (UTC) OK, For or Against what exactly? Is it For or Against merging articles that are aliases/nicknames into the article of the person that used that alias? - JMAS 02:22, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I feel that errors, such as misspellings should not be their own article but should instead redirect to the correct spelling. The Broox 01:23, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Bimkall Sector? .  .  .  .  01:43, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Sometimes they are or are deleted. Articles have been made to redirect to the proper article for alternate spellings and such.  -Fnlayson 01:45, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Simply put, we're either the biggest Star Wars online encyclopedia or&mdash;or we're not, so either be for it or&mdash;or don't be (It's late in California). -- SFH 01:40, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Get some sleep. Plus, if we want to get bigger and bigger, we can just make Unnamed Coruscant Building 1 and be perfectly legit. .  .  .  .  01:45, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd like to merge any aliases that are synonymous with particular characters or things (so Bobo redirects to Palpatine, etc.), but keeping separate articles on aliases used by more than one person (Jenos Idanian is the only example I can think of) and in-universe fictional characters (like Harlan Ottekvar of Quest for Quasar) should be easily defensible, even to non-hyperinclusionists. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 02:13, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm all for fictional characters IU. But aliases used by more than one person can be noted on each person's respective page. Or not. I'd let the fictional characters slip, but the aliases, even when used by a variety of people, is pretty shaky.