User blog comment:Vel!/FGH Gripe/@comment-5982810-20150325004329/@comment-4224897-20150325111538

vell: as for your argument "In addition, the purpose of the encyclopedia is to document existing work, not to propose new works. Now I know that this rule isn't always followed, but a whole family of conjectures isn't exactly a trivial amount of original work."

my counter-argument is as follows:

just because the main purpose is to document existing work does not mean it's bad to do innovative work, especially if it benefits readers (do i need to say how?).