Wikipedia talk:Example cruft

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Guideline?[edit]

I am pretty much sure that example cruft plagues many articles. Does it make sense to expand it into a formal guideline? See Talk:Streisand effect Staszek Lem (talk) 16:56, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

These already is a guideline section on this at WP:SPAMBAIT Krushia (talk) 22:19, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Krushia (and Staszek Lem), WP:SPAMBAIT is not "a guideline section on this". That's obviously about spam, a different problem. The two are at best indirectly linked (often through fancruft). See e.g. the 440 examples at Sobriquet#Examples. ◄ Sebastian 16:52, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It needs to say something about not turning examples into images.[edit]

It says nowhere here that so many examples may not (which is true) be mostly/all in one image, which stupefied me, so do not let this deceive others by adding more information which concerns that topic. Gamingforfun365 (talk) 03:26, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note that this is an opinion essay, not a guideline or policy. And adding something like that kinda falls into the WP:Beans category. This essay doesn't seem to have that many references from my quick search of talk pages linking here turns up less than 500; you might want to check out the MOS:TRIVIA guideline which covers some of the same issues. PaleAqua (talk) 03:56, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No examples?[edit]

This needs to have an example section, with links to diffs... preferably an unreasonably long section with too many examples. jp×g 05:02, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]