Talk:Minor law enforcement

Notability

This character doesn't strike me as particularly deserving of his own page. Who is he and why is he important? In the case he is not notable enough to have his own page, should we start a single page for all the random police officers who appear once of twice in the manga and anime? Chekhov MacGuffin ^talk 02:54, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

As a rule of thumb, if they appear at least twice, they are notable enough (they become semi-recurring characters). If they appear only once, it would depend on many things I'd say. For example, if it's someone from the Police, that would give him more weight (being someone of authority and susceptible to reappear later on). As for other random police officers, they are usually not named and not given any "role" beside a "behind-the-scene" one during an investigation and are thus "not important". But if he was named and had a role in the episode/manga, I'd say he can have his own page in that case. It would be nice to come up with a MoS guide about who to include or not.. --Maurice 03:38, 11 April 2011 (UTC)