[WikiEN-l] Re: One Where We Blew It

Sat Sep 10 06:00:02 UTC 2005

I'm also tired of the use of '<whatever>-cruft' as a reason for deletion. 
There's a certain mindset that seems to think that the existence of articles 
on minor but factual and verifiable topics detracts from Wikipedia. To that, 
I'd say: everyone's pet interest is a fringe interest to someone. Whether a 
Wikipedia article should exist on a topic should have nothing to do with how 
well one can disparage the subset of people interested in that particular 
topic.

That said, if there's not enough to say about a topic, it might not deserve 
an article of its very own. I'm all in favor of e.g. grouping minor 
fictional characters together in an article 'Minor characters in <novel>', 
or whatever.

-Matt