Forum:Notability of events

This is sort of mainly concerning the Timeline page but I feel that the implications are a bit too broad to stick this in the talk page. The title might not be entirely appropriate, either, but I figured progress would just halt if I called it something like OMNIBUS THREAD ABOUT EVENTS AND SUCH... Anyway, the main thing is I've been thinking about the roadblocks to a lot of the projects that haven't moved forward and ideas that never materialized. There are a bunch of issues that seem disparate, like what to do with the Villains category, how to maintain the timeline, what to do with parts of the character/place/case templates. I think a core problem tying into all of these is that we don't have a consistent way of determining whether an event in the series lore is notable enough for its own article and/or timeline entry. For example, we try to define the notion of "real culprits", but edge cases make it difficult without a system for what constitutes a notable "crime" that would have a "real culprit". We have a page for the IS-7 Incident but not for the past case of Turnabout Succession even though there really is no difference other than the latter not having a name. I've been making lua tables of episodes and cases here that are intended to be used for Template:CaseData and possibly for other things, and you can see in one of the tables that I've listed incidents that don't have an article. I might have been excessive about it, though... I figured I'd fish for ideas here for now while this is worked on. capefeather (talk) 03:59, August 22, 2017 (UTC)