[WikiEN-l] fancruft

[Michael Hopcroft]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> 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).
>   
Which si no less relevant to the question I asked about: "Why does 
(subject of article) matter? Why are you even reading this article? Why 
did someone reasonably believe that it was worth his time and effort to 
write it?"