[WikiEN-l] fancruft

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/me stabs <INSERT USER HERE>

Just so you know, /me is a IRC command, and saying you're "stabbing" someone
on IRC is a total joke, used a lot.  Not a personal attack =D

On 7/21/06, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > On 7/21/06, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> >> First it behooves to demonstrate what's actually wrong with "fancruft"
> >> before trying to come up with arbitrary limitations intended to reduce
> it.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > /me stabs Bryan
>
> Would stabbing count as a "personal attack?" At least it's not a legal
> threat... :)
>
> > Unless you happen to read the entirety of Wikipedia (or at least the
> > what links here on the movie page) you're not going to see these
> > things... so I doubt that you're talking about the same thing.
>
> I do believe we're talking at cross-purposes, yes. My main argument in
> this thread is against the IMO very strange notion that one cannot use a
> work of fiction as a source when writing an article about it. Anthony's
> most recent response also implied that he considered a simple plot
> synopsis to be "fancruft", which was what the post you're responding to
> was in disagreement with.
>
> I wasn't talking about what you're talking about in this response at
> all. I think we'd likely even agree about it. Fortunately I'm about to
> leave on a week-long vacation in a few hours, so the thread can continue
> without the risk of finding consensus in that area. :)
>
>
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