Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Wiki Talk/The purpose of WMG and friends

I was thinking about the purpose of the Wild Mass Guessing pages. What are they really for? What should they be for?

"As long as a theory at least sounds like a theory, always assume that it's something meaningful for its writer, no matter how improbable, contradictory or even Jossed it is, so let your hair down and play along with it."

- The page itself

So currently there is an open invitation for almost anything. The results are exactly what would be expected.

Then there is the Grand Unifying Guesses page, which is full of nonsense crossover "theories", such as long lists of characters from various fandoms supposedly being Nyarlathotep or Haruhi Suzumiya. I think that kind of thing is about as worthwhile as the old Trope Pantheons.

Edit to add:

There is a category for WMGs about tropes (Category:Wild Mass Guessing/TV Tropes Wiki) (Why does it refuse to become a link?) and the page Wild Mass Guessing/TV Tropes Wiki which have overlapping content but are not identical. I don't think WMGs were supposed to be about tropes.

Said category contains the page Time Lord/WMG, which with its subpages contains a horrendous number of Time Lord WMGs, though not a complete collection, just so that you know.