[WikiEN-l] "Exclusion" essay

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 7/20/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/20/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The following sentence makes obvious the real reason for you dislike
> > of these articles, elitism: "The harm is mostly the maintenance of
> > large numbers of pages, and to our reputation: a serious
> > encyclopedia".
>
> Ok, bear in mind I'm not trying to express what I personally like and
> dislike, but attempt to identify the unstated reasoning that leads
> people to nominate fancruft for AfD. It can't just be because they
> personally hate it, can it?
>
> Maybe take it from the other point of view: the *only* problem with
> excessive fancruft is that it damages our credibility.
>
> If you want to rework the essay a bit, go ahead.
>
> Steve
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So what do you define as excessive fancruft? Surely  a [[Bulbasaur]] article
isn't considered fancruft? I'm afraid that personal hate of the subject and
reputation paranoia are in fact the number 1 reasons for calling something
fancruft. Any valid reason to exclude or delete such items could be
explained with the regular policies without dumping the fancruft label on
it.

Mgm