[WikiEN-l] fancruft

Joe Anderson computerjoe.mailinglist at googlemail.com
Thu Jul 20 07:17:34 UTC 2006


Isn't the word fancruft uncivil like listcruft (
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-May/044870.html)

On 7/20/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/19/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> > On 7/19/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> > > I quote our article:
> > > >In the Friends episode The One With the Two Parties RACHEL is quoted
> as
> > > >saying "My parents happened. All they had to do was sit in the same
> > > >stadium, smile proudly, and not talk about the divorce. But nooo,
> they
> > > >got into a huge fight in the middle of the commencement address.
> Bishop
> > > >Tutu actually had to stop and shush them."
> > >
> > > I think that's one of the worst examples of fancruft I have seen in a
> > > very long time.  (And, I note, there is no source. :))
> > >
> > > --Jimbo
> >
> > The source is right there: "the Friends episode The One With the Two
> Parties".
> >
>
> Funny.  But it has no more place on an article about Desmond Tutu than
> an episode of Bewitched has on the Benjamin Franklin article.
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