On 7/20/06, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with this generally, though perhaps I'd be a little more liberal in certain aspects. I apologise if I misconceived your opinions, but the last part of the essay came across as a little too deletionist to be describing the status quo.
I certainly think we could afford a little more space to a non-major characters, places and things; but I'm not way out there. I'll take another look at the essay this evening.
That'd be cool. Let's think - what *is* the harm in boundless fancruft? There must be harm, or we would allow it. Perhaps it is simply that boundless fancruft strays too far from our mission, which is to produce an encyclopaedia that is not just a random collection of information.
Someone help me out here - we all know that it's wrong to have 600 pages describing every fight ever shown in any Pokémon episode. But why?
Steve