[WikiEN-l] Re: Notability meta-guidelines

Thu Jan 19 02:36:04 UTC 2006

Steve Bennett wrote:
>>"Steve Bennett" <stevage at gmail.com> wrote in 
>>message 
>>news:f1c3529e0601180739x58cee2bai8424268f8cd0eb30 at mail.gmail.c
> 
> om...
> [snip]
> 
>>3) Imaginary or fictitious subjects have less right to appear in 
>>Wikipedia than other subjects. {The fancruft principle}
> 
> 
>>That takes care of those pesky religious articles, and the literature,
> 
> and 
> 
>>the TV programmes, and the movies ...
> 
> 
>>On what basis do you make this particular claim?
> 
> 
> Ok I was definitely unclear :) I am trying to find the rationale behind
> people's revulsion of "fancruft". I don't see the derogatory word
> "cruft" used to describe any subject on wikipedia, no matter how
> esoteric, that is based on the physical world.

Wrong. I've seen articles called "mathcruft", "puzzlecruft",
"schoolcruft", "roadcruft"...

"nn. Yankcruft, d." ?

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