Talk:List of Lost episodes

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Redundancy

Listen, I am completely astounded by the level of effort and will that is being expended to try and defy simple consistency.

The whole point of this page (and other lists like it) is that so there is a short overview of each episode and to provide a encyclopedic and informative listing of episodes.

By boiling down Episodes of Lost (season 1) and Episodes of Lost (season 2) per consensus into Talk:Episodes of Lost (season 1)/Drafts and Talk:Episodes of Lost (season 2)/Drafts, you are just boiling down each episodes to a few paragraphs and provide listing of episodes-- the exact same thing this article is doing without conforming to guidelines, naming conventions, and table design.

Yes, we like episode guides to fill us in if we missed an episode, but I would submit that for the vast majority of Wikipedians that a list is more **encyclopedic** and informative than (what seems to me, and I'm sure many people would agree) a long, linear article like Episodes of Lost (season x) designed to feed you the linear story of Lost, probably intended for fans of the series.

P.S. I'm not that concerned about the issue of individual articles, but what's worrying to me is that you're purging huge amounts of content from Episodes of Lost (season 1) and Episodes of Lost (season 2) with the new drafts-- and I think it's better to create additional articles (although yes, there would be [gasp] 50 more articles to Wikipedia's 1 million already) and suffer its consequences (e.g. more pages to maintain and watch) than just delete all this content that make a Episodes of Lost page the ~300-something largest page on Wikipedia, especially when many TV shows have long, blow-by-blow recaps of episodes anyway.

So, basically what I'm saying is: that this page is more encyclopedic and that it follows the convention of most other articles out there on TV shows. Plus, Episodes of Lost (season x) does not follow naming conventions, and it's becoming more and more like this page (see Talk:Episodes of Lost (season 1)/Drafts and Talk:Episodes of Lost (season 2)/Drafts). I propose that this page become the "official" Lost episode page-- and the links to individual episodes on this page point to either episode subsections on the Episodes of Lost (season x) pages or (preferably) to individual article pages to save the content that will be deleted when the drafts go live.

Cws125 20:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC)