Forum:Anti single cruft dumpingground on Featured or Good articles policy

For quite a while I've seen users creating an article like Darth , making him an apprentice to lets say Elmo and adding one or two lines in the Elmo article linking to their own. After a while our featured articles become really messy which will eventually mean we'll have to strip some of our featured articles from their status or completely remove all those single line cruft spam links from them.

Since we have no real continuity to defend here I don't see any reason we have to change the main body of a featured article every time someone uses an already existent character in their new article so we can easier maintain the quality of our featured sithspawn and articles of eviltude.

People can still use existing Darthipedia characters in their articles, and writers do in no way have to follow the storylines of said characters in their own articles, for instance if someone wants to say Darth Elmo was a female Jedi they can. If they do want to add a link to their own article on a Featured or AoE page a simple link in the === See also === will suffice, the same goes for the Infobox under the Master or Apprentice section if that's in any way relevant.

Proposal:
No more adding one or two lines ( read unsubstantial writing ) to your own character in the main body of already Featured or Good articles. References to new work can be placed either in the See also section at the bottom of the page or in the articles Infobox next to the relevant section. These edits may be reverted either with a link to this policy in the editsummary or rollbacked with a message about this policy on the author in question's talkpage.

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 * 1) as proposer  Madclaw  [[Image:RHCP LOGO.gif|30px]] Shyriiwook! 15:35, December 9, 2009 (UTC)