User blog comment:Cookiefonster/Another proposal/@comment-30754445-20180324190329

Agreed.

Though I think the current phrasing is a symptom of a much larger problem: The numbers in the mainspace are treated almost as if they're just strangely named aliens or characters from a TV show.

From the completely rediculous notability rules (or lack of), to debates whether a certain number/notation is "canonical", to the weird phrasing that Cookiefonster just mentioned: It all points to a severe misunderstanding of the actual nature of numbers (in general) and large numbers (in particular).

A while back there was a tiny step forward, when people began working on creating informative pages of Saibian's regiments, but we've also seen a huge step back in the form of hundreds of new articles which are practically irelevant to the subject at hand.

The world of numbers is infinite, people. The number of possible naming combinations is also infinite. So if we are serious about making this wiki an actual guide to the realm of large numbers, a major overhaul (and revision of the mainspace rules) will be needed.