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:I don't really see the need for that personally. Most of these would just end up as really short articles, we don't have in depth info on more than like three or four of them. It just seems like a waste to me, currently. But then again, we have an article for every spren xD --[[User:Windrunner|Windrunner]] ([[User talk:Windrunner|talk]]) 05:46, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
:: That is my point, consistency XD --[[User:Fbstj|Joe ST]] ([[User talk:Fbstj|talk]]) 05:50, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
:I personally feel that Characters and Places are notable in and of themselves as special terms. If someone searched for a random place on Roshar, I want that place known and clearly in the search results. Especially since many places could ostensibly be expanded. There are some places that are not notable enough to have their own article, such as individual Ashmounts. I would reserve judgment that in Stormlight Archive, properties of individual spren could be expanded upon.
:So, you talk of consistency. Well, what be our policy? I would say that this question should be deferred, as it will be very difficult to make a totally consistent policy on that. This is part of our problem in determining whether those random pieces of literature in Way of Kings should warrant their own article. That is a discussion we should have, but do ''not'' simplify it as you are both doing. It is very much not that easy. Largely it will come down to how we decide which pages are not notable enough for their article, and instead should be listed in an index. That's... tough. As I said, right now Characters and Places almost always have their own article, without exception (the only exception I can think of are the literature writers, for characters, and the Ashmounts for Places). I see no reason why we could not make this future policy dependent on which high level content category we are in.
:With that out of the way, on the matter of this specific circumstance, I would say that each individual Aon is not noteworthy of an article in of themselves. You cannot possibly equate the two sentences of an Aon to the wealth of information we have on every metal. You wouldn't make an article on each Command, would you? You would, however, probably write articles for each metal, and possibly when we more of Stormlight, for each Surge or each Order of Radiant.
:Anyway, can you tell I've had to listen lawyers all freaking week? XD The question of indices is an important one, and hey, I'll be the first to admit that we wanted character and place articles to boost the article count. But I kind of like having, say, the Rosharan category, and the Roshar category to be a complete description of characters and places there. We should probably have this conversation, because we kind of haphazardly did things in the wiki's early years. But, I largely feel we should defer this matter until we see Words of Radiance. A new book of that scale will test if our structure of the wiki has the proper expandability and adaptability we will require six books down the line. -- [[User:Chaos2651|Chaos2651]] ([[User talk:Chaos2651|talk]]) 06:14, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
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