Board Thread:Editor Board/@comment-124.244.140.2-20131005120439/@comment-6697950-20140414164521

On this wiki, a stub is considered to be a page with at least 2 paragraphs of (English) content or 1 paragraph of text if a relevant picture is included. Anything that is below that is considered to be a blank page, which is not worth keeping at it's current state. I'm not sure how the requirements would apply to a page that is going to be used as a list.

Either way, there are plenty of stubs on the wiki and barely any of them ever get improved and no one man can improve them all (I can say that from experience). If we are short-handed on articles that a lot of people can contribute, the odds of someone improving a page that only a very few people can contribute to are very slim. Realistically speaking, even if we do make it as a stub, there is barely any chance that it will ever be improved. That's why we made the requirements for stub pages stricter to avoid having blank pages with little to no content that nobody will ever improve. How pages like http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/SAO_Case_Victims_Rescue_Force came to be is still beyond me.

I am not against the idea of documenting the changes. My only concern is HOW and WHERE it is done. The reasons why I don't want it to be done as an article are because:


 * 1) As said before, it would be an odd page that I'm not sure how we would handle (including formatting, linking it to other pages etc.).
 * 2) An article has to have sufficient and credible content, both of which are hard to achieve for this kind of page, seeing as the web novel isn't translated to English and even the original is only available in various web archives, not the original site.

That's why I would rather have such a list done as a blog, forum topic or any other non-article page (for example, using the Sword Art Online Wiki namespace), since the usual requirements would not apply to such pages. I believe that C9 had some work done on http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/User:C933103/web-to-publish-conv, but I'm not sure if he's planning to continue working on it, seeing as he last updated the page at the end of January.

Basically, if you want to have an article for it, you've got to have an acceptable example already in place before we can give it the status of an article. But for that to happen, someone has to to take this project up and develop it enough for a start.