This notability guideline rewrite does two things:
1.) It establishes the fact that fiction articles are only notable if there is out-of-universe infomration available
2.) Provides ways of dealing with non-notable topics and organizating notable-topics
In essense, many of the "list of vehicles from XXX" would be moved to another Wiki or whatever, because they fail to establish notability. ANYTHING is better than the current version, which is basically just tips to defend against huge tidal waves of fancruft. Most of the nonsense that people try to cleanup would be shipped out (or parts would be reorganized).
Newcomers especially need a place to go to understand that creating articles on their favorite mecha are non-notable unless they can provide significant out-of-universe information. WAF then provides details on out-of-universe sources as well as writing from an out-of-universe perspective. The key is to unite the two concepts of notability and writing about fiction.
Taking away a notability guideline would be seen to newbies as "anything in-universe is fair game".
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