Board Thread:Policies/@comment-33543551-20180823061445/@comment-33543551-20180824013042

SforHope wrote:

That's why some characters can get pages; once their importance has been determined for their number of appearances and/or their relevance as part of a larger storyline. These are still parameters to consider when giving minor characters their own pages.

Who decides this and where? I've never had an opportunity to justify why I think a page should exist (with regards to this or any other issue), just had the page deleted and been told "we don't do this".

The technical detail is that once we start allowing every "Joe", "Susan" or "Rocky" to have their own pages, arbitrarily, there would be no stopping all users from creating pages for the thousands of irrelevant characters that happened to be named in one or two issues.

The question was "why can't we use numbers to disambiguate important characters", not "why can't we make a page for every character named in one issue".