[WikiEN-l] "Exclusion" essay

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Mark Wagner 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.
> 

Precisely. My preferred writing style for the lede of an article on a
"special subject" is:

"In (context) (subject) is..."

with the article going on to explain the subject not just in it's
specialised context, but with relation to the broader context it resides
in. This should be *strongly* enforced with respect to articles on
fictional subjects; otherwise, we're going to end up with ledes along
the lines of:

"In 'real life' (subject) is..."

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