[WikiEN-l] fancruft

[Steve Bennett]

On 7/21/06, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> For quite a while now I've been using Wikipedia first before IMDB when I
> want to know whether a movie or TV show is worth watching, a synopsis is
> rather important in that regard.

No one, but no one, is claiming that synopsises of TV shows are
fancruft. Fancruft is the documenting of the entire fictional universe
in detail. Out of control fancruft is documenting not only the
official fictional universe, but subsequent fictional universes
created by fans (fan-fancruft).

Steve