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

Sat Sep 10 16:01:46 UTC 2005

At 02:08 AM 9/10/2005, Bryan Derksen wrote:
>Matt Brown wrote:
>
>>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.
>I remember once coming across a VfD where someone wanted to delete 
>an article because it was "sciencecruft". It was about some obscure 
>mathematical thing I didn't understand, and probably that the 
>nominator didn't understand either. :)

Just think of all the articles that are historycruft or geographycruft...