On 10/09/05, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Matt Brown wrote:
I'm also tired of the use of '<whatever>-cruft' as a reason for deletion. There's a certain mindset that seems to think that the existence of articles on minor but factual and verifiable topics detracts from Wikipedia. To that, I'd say: everyone's pet interest is a fringe interest to someone.
I remember once coming across a VfD where someone wanted to delete an article because it was "sciencecruft". It was about some obscure mathematical thing I didn't understand, and probably that the nominator didn't understand either. :)
There was a spate of transuranic elements being put on VfD last December (or November, or thereabouts), as "sciencecruft" - the only thing that seemed to distinguish them was that they were ones where the "common" name hadn't yet been officially agreed. Whether they existed yet or not seemed to be considered an irrelevancy...