Fancruft

Quick meaning: Fancruft is a noun meaning (Wikimedia jargon, derogatory) Trivial or excessively detailed information on a work of fiction added by fans to a general-interest wiki.

Meaning

(Wikimedia jargon, derogatory) Trivial or excessively detailed information on a work of fiction added by fans to a general-interest wiki.

More Meanings

1. (fandom slang, derogatory, less common) Low-quality material (especially literature) produced by fans of a performer, group, author etc.

Example Sentences

Editors are the folks who detect and remove original research and fancruft.

Fancruft (sometimes shortened to just cruft) is a derogatory term for these types of articles, which are sometimes just barely tolerated.

This contrast shows how dedicated Star Wars fans use the niche Wookieepedia to create and value content with a vast amount of detail and precision, even if the same content is viewed as fancruft within the more general Wikipedia community.

Although the term ["cruft"] is almost always intended negatively, it is also associated with a certain obsessive attraction, most obviously in the case of "fancruft," those excessively detailed wiki entries about extremely minor elements of some niche subculture.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fanwank, fanstuff, crapfic, fanwiki, fanservice, crifanac.

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