Wikitroid talk:Requests for Comment/Connections


 * Agree- as policy progenitor.  "My name is  Admiral Sakai , and you should really read my book."  18:13, June 11, 2012 (UTC)
 * Agree- (If I have a handle on this correctly...) Just made a post arguing against an instance of this. I think that if someone wants to put an exception forward on the talk page, they should be allowed to make a fair case, but the fact is that the trivia section of articles are very much abused with things (along these lines and others) like this. An example of a good argument might be a brief section on the history of early powered exoskeletons in reality and fiction in the Power Suit article, with a link to that article on Wikipedia. An example of a bad argument would be to compare recent and unrelated powered exoskeletons. (Fictional or otherwise.) ChozoBoy (Talk/Contribs) 19:20, June 11, 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment- All good points, but I'm not sure if I understand the first part of that example. It seems like you're talking about a description of a subject that makes use of out-universe technical or historical information, not a connection to another specific fictional work.  "My name is  Admiral Sakai , and you should really read my book."  22:09, June 11, 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment- That's correct. ChozoBoy (Talk/Contribs) 03:59, June 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * Oppose - I feel like it will be very difficult to decide what is and isn't considered a relevant connection if this proposed policy is put to use. I foresee a lot of conflict between users trying to argue this. I think that a better policy would be to simply disallow these seeminly random coincidences unless it is explicitly defined as a legitimate connection, because allowing all of them will attract a lot of speculation and will clog up the trivia sections of a lot of articles. Joe Copp 00:25, July 1, 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose For the same reasons as Joe. We don't need a whole other policy for these, and I'd like to think we've smartened up about "references" in other series (OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!! *giddy jumping up and down* SAMUS WEARS A CATSUIT LIKE SCARLETT JOHANNSON AS THE BLACK WIDOW! IT'S GOTTA BE A REFERENCE!!!!!!!!!!!). Use Common Sense covers this just fine, so I say we close this and point it to the connection clauses of the guideline. -- R o y b o y X (complaints/records) 17:12, July 5, 2013 (UTC)
 * Things like this don't need their own policy. The policy isn't going to actually serve any sort of purpose because it isn't going to prevent these arguments from happening and it doesn't serve any sort of administrative purpose (arguing isn't a blockable offense), so it's just not really necessary. I agree with Roy that things like this are covered by just simply using common sense, assuming good faith, and coming to a consensus on the wiki.  Docto rP a i n 9 9  17:40, July 5, 2013 (UTC)