User:Arvan Swordwielder/Expansion

Poll
All right, so vote, and then leave your comments!

I've been thinking; this summer, why don't we make this an encyclopedia of C.S. Lewis as well as of Narnia? We could write articles on his other books and also write articles on his family members (his parents, brother, wife, stepchildren, etc). It will require that we get involved enough to read books and write articles, but we should hopefully have more time over the summer than right now. What do you think? Yes No

Arvan Swordwielder
I'm in favor of this, obviously. ● 21:21, February 18, 2010 (UTC)

Queenlucythevaliant
Not sure about my vote yet! As far as having more time in the summer... it's possible, but I just got a job. Poor grown ups - now I know why they're so grumpy! But as far as the idea - on one hand I like it, it is deffinately not a bad idea and I think it might be neat.On the other hand, you don't see a Tolkien wiki with articles about Roverandom, Farmer Giles, and Sr Gwain next to Frodo and Isengard. If we were to do this it would change the whole dynamic. This would no longer be a comprehensive wiki about a specific topic but rather a large biography/list of works on an individual person. So while I think it would be neat, I'm not sure that it should be done. I'm holding off on my vote, and open to being swayed either way!
 * I beg to differ about the Tolkien Wiki. See:, , and . These are from the One Wiki to Rule Them All. There are even more articles like this on the Tolkien Gateway. ~Arvan

EDIT: Were we to follow through with this, I can contribute info on the Screwtape Letters and Til We Have Faces (<3), but not the Space Trilogy. And certainly even those I do not know nearly as well as Narnia. Queenlucythevaliant 16:00, February 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * I could contribute to The Screwtape Letters and Miracles, and I have access to the Space Trilogy. If we vote to do this, we can all make a plan of how we'll go about this. ~Arvan

EdmundtheJust
Do we want to do it through C.S. Lewis' page? ie: C.S. Lewis/The Screwtape Letters The think I do not like is that this is a wiki for Narnia not for C.S. Lewis. I do however like the idea to have articles on his other works... but not floating around there like the rest of the articles. If we do them, I think they need to be conected to his page like this one is to Arvan's. So I guess in a summary of this is that: I would like the articles, yes. But how we go about adding them is still up in the air. ~Ed
 * I guess yes, if this is voted down. ~Arvan

Rain Thalo
I think this could work. just don't try to get too detailed and it won't get out of hand. One article per book should be good (perhaps the Space Trilogy could have one instead of three) and maybe just cover his immediate family members -- wife, brother, parents, stepchildren -- I know that his stepson Douglas Gresham has some sort of producing credit on the Narnia films and introduced the audio plays. As to not seeing this in a place like the Tolkien Wiki, remember that LOTR is far more detailed and exhaustive and has way more literature than Narnia. 21:35, February 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree, we probably don't need a huge number of articles. Articles on Warnie Lewis (His brother, I believe) and his stepchildren are definitely a good idea. I think we could make separate articles for the Space Trilogy. Concerning LOTR, the articles we mentioned aren't related to LOTR/The Hobbit/The Silmarillion. ~Arvan 02:10, February 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, in that case, that just makes the argument for this idea even stronger (btw, the LotR universe has waaaaaay more than just those three to draw from). -- Rain 04:51, February 20, 2010 (UTC)

Halian the Shipbuilder
I've always wanted to do a comprehensive wiki on the Space Trilogy. Not sure if it really belongs here though. Maybe a new name space on Wikia. Halian the Shipbuilder 21:39, February 18, 2010 (UTC)

Results
Well out of the four votes, it says yes. But the next thing is how are we going to put them up? As articles within the wiki, or part of C.S. Lewis' page?
 * We'll wait until March 5. If more votes come against and the opposed win, we'll put them under Lewis' page. ~Arvan