[WikiEN-l] WP:FICT rewrite

[SonOfYoungwood at aol.com]

This notability guideline rewrite does two things:
 
1.) It establishes the fact that fiction articles are only notable if there  
is out-of-universe infomration available
 
2.) Provides ways of dealing with non-notable topics and organizating  
notable-topics
 
In essense, many of the "list of vehicles from XXX" would be moved to  
another Wiki or whatever, because they fail to establish notability. ANYTHING is  
better than the current version, which is basically just tips to defend against  
huge tidal waves of fancruft. Most of the nonsense that people try to cleanup 
 would be shipped out (or parts would be reorganized). 
 
Newcomers especially need a place to go to understand that creating  articles 
on their favorite mecha are non-notable unless they can provide  significant 
out-of-universe information. WAF then provides details on  out-of-universe 
sources as well as writing from an out-of-universe perspective.  The key is to 
unite the two concepts of notability and writing about  fiction.
 
Taking away a notability guideline would be seen to newbies as "anything  
in-universe is fair game".



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