The copyright issues might be the biggest pain in the neck in the end with this stuff, in the end. Some of our articles contain very detailed plot summaries, extended quotations, stat information, etc., of copyrighted sources which could plausibly be argued to infringe on the future marketability of the copyright holder. There's also the question of whether most of our Pokémon articles count as "criticism and analysis" or if they aren't just summaries and re-written stat sheets. But that's a bigger problem than the "cruft" one.
(I recently wrote a first draft of copyright policy on en.Wikiquote with this in mind, as I realized that it not having one of its own was probably a bad idea since it seems to me the second most likely of the Wiki projects to have major copyright infringement issues. Anybody who is interested and has some time to burn, feel free to take a look at [[Wikiquote:Copyrights]] when you get a chance.)
FF
On 9/11/05, Ryan Norton wxprojects@comcast.net wrote:
Excuse me while I go and add articles on all the monsters from Dungeons and Dragons then...
I fail to see a problem with this (besides copyright issues if you want to add stats, for example).... after all, we have an article for each pokemon.
Thanks,
RN
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