Talk:Adrien Agreste/Archive 1

Rather useful on Famdom

Is it really useful to create pages for animes characters? There is fandom for this, and it's better than here for this kind of stuff. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.91.51.235 (talk) 08:51, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

First of all, this article is not dedicated to an anime character. Secondly, the level of "usefulness" of any given article is subjective. Articles on Wikipedia are not created based on how "useful" they are. They are created based on the notability of their subjects (which is objective since it derives from the used sources), and this subject is undoubtedly notable. The article in question even is a good article.

Also, Wikipedia greatly differs from Fandom (Wikia). Fandom pages contain information regarding a certain character mainly from an in-universe point of view, whereas Wikipedia discusses fictional characters mostly from an out-of-universe point of view. This is exactly why Wikipedia articles of fictional characters are important and, indeed, useful - they are (or, if they are not already, should be) focused on real-world information regarding the development (details about the idea behind the creation of a certain character, information from the crew involved in the character's creation, comments from the voice actor/actress that voices the character in the English version, and so on) and the reception (critical response received by the character, the popularity of the character, merchandise based on the character, and so on) of the characters rather than the characters' in-universe actions from the series/films/books as it instead happens on Fandom (on Wikipedia, these actions are - or should be - only summarized in an undetailed section when it comes to the body of the article; the lead section obviously has to contain such information as well since its purpose is to summarize the entire article). This article, for example, is also centered on the character's development and reception, while the in-universe information is mentioned only in the "Appearances" section (besides the lines from the lead section). Fandom basically is a website dedicated mainly to fans of the series/film/book in which a given character appears (who usually wish to know the actions of the character in detail, detailed information about the character's relationships, details about the character's physical appearance, personality, and abilities, and other in-universe details), while Wikipedia is dedicated to any reader that wishes to learn more about a certain character mostly from a real-world perspective (even if the reader is not familiar with the article's subject). Rules applied to an article are also a lot stricter on Wikipedia. Therefore, a certain character's Wikipedia and Fandom pages are completely different, serve different purposes, and should not and cannot be compared.

By the way, there even is a WikiProject called WikiProject Fictional characters, which is dedicated only to Wikipedia articles of fictional characters. And there are over 16,000 (or, with the lists of characters included, over 18,000) articles dedicated to fictional characters on Wikipedia, as this "Statistics" section shows. Flowerpiep (talk) 19:54, 21 November 2019 (UTC)