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{{quote|''I like that the wikipedia article on House Targaryen is longer than the article for sickle cell anemia.''|The Podcast of Ice and Fire (Sadly still true.)}}
 
'''Fannage''' usually exists on nonspecialized wiki, where things appealing to pop culture attract larger degrees of fannage than more mundane if relevant topics. According to wiki law, this shouldn't be a problem, as it encourages a larger number of people to edit. Likewise the opposite isn't bad either, if a handful of people are hopefully interested in a single topic to make good entries even if [[Hedge Trimmer|Hedge Trimmers]]s complain about [[There Is No Such Thing as Notability|superfluous articles being longer]]. On one hand, you don't have to look at the fan-tacular articles. On the other hand, Wikipedia's $12,000 funds drives every couple of years seem to be mostly going towards rewriting the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] in Encyclopedia form.
 
The danger occurs when topics with high amounts of Fannage lead to a larger pool of ''unskilled'' editors. More importantly, things that attract fandoms can start getting filled with [[Weasel Words]], [[Fanon]], and other mess in an attempt to fit into the format.
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