On 7/19/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Fancruft is the overdocumentation of certain fields of entertainment.
Jimbo's extract is a good example of bad fancruft - inserting niche
information into an article which won't benefit the reader.
Sadly, the word "fancruft" is too often levelled at anything the
accuser doesn't like him/herself. In this case it is a form of
elitism; the accuser claims that the articles a particular user is
trying to write are somehow not worthy enough simply due to their
subject matter. All you need to do is cite "Wikipedia is not paper".
I actually cringed when Jimbo used the word fancruft because of this very
reason. Him using the word, will give Pokemon/Simpsons/SpongeBob hating
editors yet other ammo to claim anything related to them is fancruft. Don't
have the word fancruft around. Be specific and set your own ego aside. If I
didn't I wouldn't have saved multiple Pokemon articles from doom. I despise
them, but that gives me no right submitting them for deletion.
What I would like to see is mention that Tutu being named in friends is not
sufficiently useful to be included in the article. Now if he actually
appeared in the episode...
Mgm