On 15/11/05, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Practically _every_ topic can have "-cruft" appended to the end if you ask the right person. I once saw a VfD for a transuranic element's article with the justification given that the subject was "sciencecruft". :)
There were about six of those, all with exactly the same "rationale" - 'doesn't exist yet, fictional", or something along those lines. As all bar one had actually been synthesized, and the only rationale behind selecting them seemed to be picking the ones that IUPAC hadn't named yet (the one given a formal name in the previous year was left alone), it did seem to be one of those "My pet topic has been nominated for deletion so I will nominate lots of junk" spats VfD had occasionally. I did smile at "sciencecruft", though, once I'd yelled a bit at the nominator :-)
Incidentally, today's rather demoralising AfD: [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Surviving veterans of the First World War]]. Nominated on _Sunday the 13th of November_. Oh, the timing.
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