User blog:Тостер/What merits an article?..

You might have noticed an unusual helmet among artifacts on the Waverider, a helmet which is effectively a bucket with two holes in it to see something. You might have seen it at virtually ANY point in the series, because it was there from the very start of Season 1 and it never left till now. This thing has quite possibly dozens of appearances. It is, of course, an easter egg of minor significance, a helmet of original Red Tornado from the comics, Abigail "Ma" Hunkel. A cool nod, although describing it in an article is tricky: it was never involved in any event, it merely sits there being an unknown object which many people can recognize but which also provides very little information for an article.

I still tried my best at making an article in 2016 and it was promptly deleted by MakeShift with a reasonable explanation: "This is little more than a reference, without a role in any episode."

The problem is... At Season 4 we have this thing in it what seems like a half of the episodes and recently trivia section for mentioned it which got me thinking that at this point this might be on quite a few episode pages because someone is ought to notice the helmet in an episode for the first time and each time it is likely a different episode. Indeed, a nearly identical trivia item could be found in. So far, as far as I've searched that's all but that is exactly why we might need articles for some objects like that: otherwise we will have the same trivia item for the same prop on episode pages and I can easily tell that neither of the episodes which house the trivia item now were the first appearance of the prop.

Of course, maintaining an article like that is a bit of a dry and tedious activity and creating it at that point has a problem, one I've already encountered with Girder: we now need to compile a list of appearance starting with Season 1 of DC's Legends of Tomorrow. I'm not sure we have that thing listed for every episode it appeared in, but we tried our best. Like we should, in my humble opinion, try our best with bucket helmet, because otherwise we will have to deal with that on a monthly basis.