[WikiEN-l] fancruft

[Ray Saintonge]

Steve Bennett wrote:

>On 7/21/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>Not all articles use something as a source for itself (e.g., using an
>>episode of Friends as a source on what happened in an episode of
>>Friends).
>>    
>>
>An article about an episode that cites nothing but the episode itself
>is a poor article. It amounts to an article about the Mona Lisa simply
>putting a high resolution copy of the image and saying "you can see
>for yourself". 
>
Sometimes that's the only valid thing you can say.  Whether it's a poor 
article depends on the writing style, and what you want to accomplish.

>In order not to violate NOR, we could say very little
>about the episode. We couldn't say if it was good or bad. We couldn't
>say what fans thought about it. We couldn't say if the jokes were
>funny. We couldn't say it was the first time Rachael kissed Ross.
>
Some of these would be contrary to NPOV anyway. :-)   Apart from that 
some of this information could always be added later.

>We could say "The episode lasted 23 minutes". We could offer a plot
>summary. We could describe some of the gags. How boring.
>
Yeah!  Facts can be boring.

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