Talk:Dualistic cosmology

Please specify a reason for the deletion. --Instrumentality (talk) 20:25, May 25, 2015 (UTC)

Yeah I'm not sure why the user has come on and marked it for deletion just like that. If I'm honest though it needs more content than what was there. But I understand it was only just created and isn't going to be fully completed right away.--Baker1000 (talk) 20:29, May 25, 2015 (UTC)

I see the user only has 1 contribution here, so maybe it's vandalism. --Instrumentality (talk) 20:48, May 25, 2015 (UTC)

Firstly, don't associate my actions with vandalism. Secondly, I marked it as a candidate for deletion as the term itself doesn't deserve a separate page on the wiki, rather the term itself can be easily explained in the character's page for someone who's not familiar with it. An example of this would be the page I never, where the game is nothing unique to the show itself and nothing of great importance happens for it to have its own page.NewGenTV (talk) 22:55, May 25, 2015 (UTC)

You should have stated a reason when you marked it and left the content alone until it was decided. Actually I think it could warrant it's own article, we have several story devices with their own article which all relate to various aspects of the show. I've never heard of this concept before, and I'm intrigued. I think it could have some relation to the story.--Baker1000 (talk) 00:21, May 26, 2015 (UTC)

The element itself has no independent page value (it lacks any major content that needs expanding), creating one would only mean about two lines of text with recaps of occurrences during episodes. You shouldn't add a new page every time someone's not familiar with a specific term or concept that's featured in the show, this is why we have the main wiki, where even the simplest of terms have their own definitions. The encyclopedia is here to provide information to anyone curious about the series it focuses on. A simple mention of the term on the main page and a redirect would suffice.NewGenTV (talk) 02:09, May 26, 2015 (UTC)

The format of a wiki is such that you create topics that pertain to the overall interest of the wiki. The issue of dualistic cosmology or other themes could be buried in long articles on blogs or entertainment sites. That's a very different format, and we don't have to just bury a topic in that way, we can make a separate entry for it. Personally speaking, I like learning about new concepts through wikis related to shows like this, and I like the format of the wiki so that I can discover them without reading a longer, less focused article take may or may not have the content I want to learn about. Thanks for your input, but I think you're out-voted on this one. I will remove the tag later if no one else chimes in. --Instrumentality (talk) 06:53, May 26, 2015 (UTC)

I'm not willing to keep the article separate if there is little else that can be added to the page. It can go under literary techniques with a link going to the Wikipedia article, like we have for deus ex machina, which is also relevant to Lost but not so much that it would need a full article. I know what you're saying about burying the information but literary techniques is linked on the top menu and throughout the site. It wouldn't be that buried if we listed it there in the same way as deus ex machina.--Baker1000 (talk) 20:52, May 26, 2015 (UTC)

In what way is Dualistic Cosmology a literary technique? --Instrumentality (talk) 05:27, May 30, 2015 (UTC)

It's a story device, is it not?--Baker1000 (talk) 13:11, May 30, 2015 (UTC)

I could be mistaken, but to me a literary device is a way of communicating something, not what is actually communicated. So creating a dualistic cosmology story in the plot could be an allusion to some other historic example of it, but here the literary technique is allusion, not dualistic cosmology. That's my two or so years college level english understanding. According to Wikipedia, literary devices are any of "several specific methods", so there's a finite list of what they are, and dualistic cosmology is not on the list. It seems more like an anthropogenic topic. --Instrumentality (talk) 22:35, May 30, 2015 (UTC)

I suggest we simply move it to literary techniques page if there's not enough to be expanded on, since you have pretty much everything else listed there. Apologies for the delete tag. If I had known about literacy techniques, I would have suggest to annex this page, instead of suggesting to remove it, must have slipped my focus.NewGenTV (talk) 22:39, May 26, 2015 (UTC)