256:"Knowledge is not an indiscriminate collection of information" is still subject to personal opinion on what meets it. Given that we have thousands of articles on fictional characters and TV episodes I fail to see how a comprehensive list of actors in a very notable series is radically different. Evidently you are unaware of
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