[WikiEN-l] "Exclusion" essay

[Peter Ansell]

On 21/07/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/20/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > So what do you define as excessive fancruft? Surely  a [[Bulbasaur]] article
> > isn't considered fancruft? I'm afraid that personal hate of the subject and
> > reputation paranoia are in fact the number 1 reasons for calling something
> > fancruft. Any valid reason to exclude or delete such items could be
> > explained with the regular policies without dumping the fancruft label on
> > it.
>
> Any article on a fictional subject written largely as if the author
> were living in the fictional universe in question is fancruft.
>

Encyclopedic articles should not be in the first person though, and
hence the position of the author should not be identifiable. Still
seems like a roundabout definition to me. Also, what policy requires
that the author be living in the "real universe" for their
contribution to be accepted.

Peter Ansell