Talk:John Winchester

Cocombat, I like what you've done with the meta section, but I'm still not entirely sure about it. Maybe just the term, 'meta' kind of makes me feel iffy about it. Documenting John's relationship to the hunting world seems reasonable, but documenting his relationship with his sons toes the line a bit more. I don't know. I don't even know *why* I feel iffy about it!!

I think it could work on other pages too, except for the issue of doubling up information. And getting opinionated (for example, if you went into detail about the relationships between the Winchesters you could get some strongly differing opinions, which would lead to the question of extensive speculation vs. canon - for example, when discussing how exactly the boys were raised, which we never actually see in depth in canon!), which could be problematic.

I like the Roadhouse section on John's page because it lists dialogue and dates that we hear in CANON (same with the hunters section). the Sam and Dean sections - not so sure. I mean, on the Sam and Dean pages there are significant dates/pre-series information that we're given - again, documenting what we're given in canon, drawing all the information together to create a source for people to form their own conclusions, as opposed to airing their conclusions on the pages themselves.

How about turning the character pages into Directory pages as well by putting a 'meta' section in that links to meta posts on LJ etc (even threads on message boards)? that would allow all that fan-production and opinion and speculation to be included without compromising the general 'canon, not opinion' "rule" of the wiki. What do you think?

--Angstslashhope 17:25, 27 December 2006 (PST)