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Who Inspired has a lot of short entries on each page. Sometimes the writing is choppy and needs clean up, and sometimes the entries need to be normalized, which requires making judgment calls.

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Normalizing articles is fun, but requires some deep thought. For example, inevitably, someone will enter Aliens as an inspiration, and someone else will enter Aliens 2 and someone else will enter Aliens (franchise) or Aliens (film). All of a sudden, there are a whole bunch of different entries for Aliens''.

So here's the question that needs to be answered: What's the best way to represent all these influences? Typically, it's best to put everything into a single entry, like Aliens (franchise) - that way, if 10 movies were inspired by Aliens, it's safe to say that just mentioning the franchise will be the best way to describe the inspiration.