Sort of riding on the coat tails on "why is this thing on Fanlore," I found a wiki editor's discussion on why she chooses to add a meta essay to the site or not: https://fanlore.org/wiki/User_talk:Mrs._Potato_Head/2018_Archive#Meta_pages

It's kind of nice to get an editor's perspective on why they do things. I also found her reasons for Fanlore-ing a post very similar to why I want to link a post for the newsletter, haha.

(I wish I could tag people in this comment, lmao, I think it'll interest multiple people. I hope y'all see this!)