Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5488183-20170412201341/@comment-31440266-20170413022309

ScarsLionGuard wrote: I think it's because characters who only appear for 5 seconds don't really need an article about them. It seems pointless (my opinion here), and I don't care for seeing character articles, thinking 'oh, this should be interesting' and seeing something like 'this dude appeared for a few seconds saying good morning Kion and then we never saw him again'. I've seen a few wikis that do those short articles, and I never bothered returning to them.

To put this into another scenario: think about a franchise like Pokemon. Imagine having articles for every Charmander that appears in the background with a minimal role.

The wiki does technically have a way of recording all animals anyway, on the animal pages. So each character does in some way have an article, it's just that the more important characters get an individual article rather than a tiny thing. I get what you're saying, but just don't really understand what the harm in having such articles would be, if someone bothers to make them. I mean, it's not like they'd take anything away from the Wiki.