Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-1732320-20160111174438/@comment-1207741-20160115233610

Cerez365 wrote: @Snapper - while I don't really think most of those articles add any value; look at Haku's parent's articles for example- it literally takes one sentence and then spins an entire story for them based on speculation. The articles to me seem like just another excuse to have someone else listed as the Ice Release kekkei genkai wielder. Nonetheless there are those who want them on the wiki so I thought this was a better compromise. I assume you're responding to my "has enough content for its own article" line? If so, content and padding aren't the same things. If a topic, when its padding is removed, is indeed only a sentence long, then nobody can rationally argue that's enough content for its own article.

I still feel it's better to relocate information on minor topics to an existing article rather than create some indiscriminate list for the miscellaneous. If we were to use the Dragon Ball example, you quickly run into a problem where I, as a reader, don't even know where to start looking for background character #2 because there are too many listed. If I really did want to know more about the "Red Ribbon Army Soldiers", I'd probably start looking in the article about the Red Ribbon Army. And since I'm looking there by default, the information might as well be in that article, if in any article.