Board Thread:Editor Board/@comment-124.244.140.2-20131005120439/@comment-66.191.211.122-20140414154743

>If we had someone who was able to provide a large amount of trustworthy information regarding the differences, I would be for the idea.

Realistically, it would be a stub for a very long time, but is that really a reason to not create a page? It seems like giving up. If the ideal is that there is a well-written, sourced, and organized page on the topic... that can only happen if you let the stub exist.

>Aditionally, the page would need a format and structure, aside from just being a list.

Doesn't seem like too much of a limiting factor. Just making a tree by web novel, then by chapter, (with one section for cross-chapter differences.) It's simple, objective, and scalable. And that's just one idea.

>The original page that this thread was about...

The impression I got from reading the discussion here basically told me that you were right to delete that page. Still, I think that there should be a different/better approach to achieve the same thing, (that is, collect differences between web versions and print versions.)

>Aditionally TVTropes isn't really about facts.

Yeah, me mentioning TVTropes was more of a disclaimer than anything else. XD I wasn't going to pretend that I had a primary or reliable source for the information I gave.

>How many times must we go over this... 16.5 was never even part of the web novel.

Sorry, I didn't edit the quote I took, so it wasn't very clear. The italicized part of my previous post here was referring to content in the web-equivalent of the Volume 1 Light Novel. Not in 16.5.

>There are better scenes to use as examples of censoring...

Exactly why I'm not going to militantly defend my example. As long as we can establish that actual censorship is happening rather than the author simply cleaning up parts he didn't like, it lends credibility to the idea that these changes should be documented.

>However, I don't see a reason to make it into an article.

It's a body of information that relates to Sword Art Online. But to be more pragmatic, it's because of the nature of how the information would be collected. Suppose 10% of the fans of SAO are interested in this information. You could probably count the ones who are both bilingual and willing to document their findings on your fingers and toes. This is a way to make obscure yet important/interesting information availiable to the masses, which, one could argue, is a central goal of Wikipedia and all of its wikis.

>It would be an odd page to say the least.

Most likely.