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wikipedia has unreasonably detailed coverage of Doctor Who

so it's midnight and for whatever reason i decide i want a quick refresher on what a "dalek" is. so i start reading the wikipedia page for Dalek thinking, y'know, this'll be a good 5 minute read and i'll have a nice broad understanding of the topic at the end of it. but no, this article is huge, and i got a good 15 minutes into reading it before realising i wasn't even most of the way done. and it's not even one of those articles that goes into absurd amounts of fictional minutia - pages about How to Train Your Dragon were absolutely full of this at one point for example - no, it actually balances out the in-universe depiction of daleks with real-world information: it describes a specific point in an episode where a dalek levitates up a flight of stairs in context while talking about how in the real world people perceived them as being unable to do that. the level of detail is absurd but it's actually really well-written and all backed up with citations (nearly 200 in total).

and it's not just the daleks, they're all like this. Regeneration, the Cybermen, individual episodes or incarnations of the Doctor, Doctor Who missing episodes, Doctor Who in Australia. any possible Doctor Who related thing has an article about it and all of those articles are as detailed as it seems absolutely possible. i don't think there is any other subject that wikipedia has so comprehensively covered. what is going on?


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