Wikipedia:Fan analysis

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There is an abundance of fancruft on Wikipedia. Fancruft generally falls into two categories:

• Copyright violations: Stuff that's directly pulled from copyrighted material and is unoriginal to the point that it is a derivative work that cannot be released under the GFDL. [http://www.whoosh.org/issue25/lee1.html#22]
• Fan analysis: Stuff that's pulled from copyrighted material, but created enough original fan analysis to the point that it is a derivative work which is unencyclopedic, but legal.

An example of this is the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Back_to_the_Future_timeline&oldid=602584769 Back to the Future timeline]. Is it an original work? If you say no, it is a copyright violation. If you say yes, then it is in violation of WP:SYNTH and should therefore be deleted.