[WikiEN-l] fancruft

Fri Jul 21 21:18:58 UTC 2006

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 7/21/06, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> For quite a while now I've been using Wikipedia first before IMDB when I
>> want to know whether a movie or TV show is worth watching, a synopsis is
>> rather important in that regard.
> 
> No one, but no one, is claiming that synopsises of TV shows are
> fancruft.

Anthony apparently does. Here's what he wrote in the email this was a
response to:

> I think summarizing something directly (e.g. using a Friends episode
> as a source for facts about itself) is, by its very definition,
> original research.  The Friends episode isn't even a primary source in
> this case - the Friends episode is the subject, and the summary would
> be the primary source.
> 
> There are a number of reasons to do this.  One is that it helps lessen
> the amount of "fancruft".

I was mainly disagreeing with the notion that the episode itself isn't
an acceptable source for a description of the episode, but this other
notion about the summary being fancruft seems implied as well.

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