Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5488183-20170412201341/@comment-31214635-20170412222050

KalloSkull wrote: Not sure why you shouldn't allow any of these. After all, isn't the Wiki's purpose to provide as much information as possible about the show and its surrounding franchise? So if someone wants to and goes through the trouble of writing an article about that one giraffe in the background of an episode who appeared for 2 seconds and never spoke a word, why not allow it? Even if it's a super short article. As long as it's to the point, truthful to what happened in the show and doesn't have anything extra added by the writer. Of course, that is an extreme example and probably impossible to actually do, but the point is if it's possible to provide information about a character on the Wiki, no point in limiting people from doing that IMO. 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.