On 6/16/06, Cobb <sealclubbingfun(a)googlemail.com> wrote: No, but the ravening hordes of fanboys would destroy you and we wouldn't want that. Imagine all the elementary-school-keepers but without the typing skills. Would we really want that? -Ras -- John Lyden - rasputinaxp(a)gmail.com "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time..." -Kerouac

On 6/16/06, Cobb <sealclubbingfun(a)googlemail.com> wrote: Legit fictional: It's a major aspect of the Star Wars series, which are well past the credible size of popularity where major subjects within the fictional series are worth having articles about. Fictional aspects are perfectly reasonable to report on. Legit real-world fan phenomenon: Everyone who I know who ever laid hand on one of the toy lightsabers said "Cool!" and waved it around a bunch. Sufficiently popular fan phenomenon. Legit real-world martial art phenomenon: There are a few people trying to replicate the movie fighting style at a serious level. While that sort of scares me, I have to admit that when I was working at a big web company in the dot-com boom days, a bunch of us used the toy lightsabers for stress relief, and my Kendo experience and a coworkers Fencing experience came in handy. We weren't taking it all that seriously (other than wiping the floor with the Java group as a point of honor, before returning to our duels), but I can see where someone might. Article cleanup: An article on a subject which spans fiction into fandom into fans trying to practice it for real needs to distinguish between those boundaries clearly. Failure to do so makes it a badly written article, but badly written articles get cleaned up, not deleted, as a point of stated policy. -- -george william herbert gherbert(a)retro.com / george.herbert(a)gmail.com