&gt;&gt; &quot;The world probably doesn’t need zillions of explanatory articles about the Japanese video game franchise Pokémon.&quot;<p>&gt; why? if people are willing to devote their time to the task I don&#x27;t see a reason why their work shouldn&#x27;t be preserved.<p>These sentiments don&#x27;t need to be at odds with each other. Instead of zillions of (very small) explanatory articles of a half-paragraph each, we can have a few dozen (large) ones with the same informational content and much less overhead in how they&#x27;re organized and maintained, especially when they all share the same information sources, while big names like Pikachu with unique significance can get their own articles.