User blog comment:NightFalcon9004/An announcement/@comment-24142271-20160424042824/@comment-23771723-20160427044030

I'm aware that a subpage is counted as a page, but it's still not sub-page content.

The gain is the same as any wiki documenting a franchise: to provide information specific to what we're documenting here. In this case, actor-related information specific to Death Note.

Regardless of what it says on the front page, this wiki definitely documents the franchise. If it didn't, then all the anime content would have to go -- because that's an adaptation, not the (original) series, and therefore part of the franchise. Trying to exclude content since it's part of the franchise is a purist way of looking at it, and I strongly disagree with the philosophy. Death Note is still being adapted into new media, and I would like to keep that documented here. The manga is (and should be) central, but its adaptations, and the creation and development of those adaptations, are also relevant and deserve documentation here with it.

(I'm not aware of documenting things like pillows, but that sounds like a separate discussion.)

We have already addressed the concern about small pages. List pages are the solution. Every actor gets their own little section on the same page with a few sentences written about them, and maybe a few quotes from interviews, etc. Most will probably be only a few sentences, or maybe a few short paragraphs. When they get big, they can get their own page. So pages for individual actors will have solid content from the moment they're created. This is an issue we already resolved in this discussion. It does not need to be brought up as though it is still a problem.

But I suspect this might not really be about solutions anyway, and the discussion will definitely go nowhere if it isn't. From the way that you are trying to shuffle the pages into subpages, and how you're bringing up issues that we've already addressed and resolved, it seems to me that you might just not want the content here at all. At this point, I encourage you to consider if there are any solutions that will satisfy you in regards to documenting the extended franchise. If you want the wiki to solely be about the original series, that's a major philosophical difference that isn't worth discussing, because no one can change your mind about something like that, and meanwhile the wiki will continue to grow.

How we choose to document and organize that content is definitely worth discussing though, and we should be able to come up with solutions here. The concern about the mini pages was a good point, and we've addressed it. We can do that for other organizational problems as well.

But overall, I really think this is a lot of concern over something that isn't very big. After all, how many editors are really active here? We don't have the force or (at least currently) the interest to develop actors' content enough to move them out of a single page, not for a while.

It likely won't change that much.

And if there is an active interest in developing those pages, then cool, we get Death Note specific content on actors and insight into the interpretation and development of adaptations. It's the kind of stuff that a wiki about a franchise documents. Awesome.