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nn cruft d —The preceding unsigned comment was added by SPUI ( talk • contribs) .
How do you pronounce cruft? [kɹʊft]? [kɹuːft]? — Frungi 03:29, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
who added that page?? -- Shandris 10:14, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
I really don't think we should delete the whole article. It's a great word and I've heard it's used in places like MIT. Faseidman 18:10, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
I know nothing on the specific topic of this article, but it needs a first sentence that briefly explains the word before the article splits into categories. - Emiellaiendiay 04:36, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
My prod just got removed. Unless someone gives me a good reason, I'm going to nominate this to be transwikied ... -- evrik ( talk) 22:51, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
There are a few meanings for this word, so whether if this article gets deleted or not, it would be better off changing this into a disambiguation page, and salvage the article (whether if its deleted or not) to a separate page.
As many readers would really be looking for Wikipedia:Fancruft. -- Arnzy ( talk • contribs) 15:22, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
Why does this page exist? Wikipedia is not a dictionary. This page is merely a definition of a slang term with a spurious etymology section. The article does not state why the subject of the article is notable and does not give any references for the information it contains. 212.140.167.99 18:58, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
I am very skeptical of the etymology. I am a CS professor at Harvard, and have been hanging around Harvard CS since I was an undergrad starting in 1964. I checked with a couple of even older timers -- one of them the professor who was my undergrad advisor, and he has been in Harvard CS since the late 1940s. None of the three of us ever heard this etymology until we saw it on the Wikipedia page. The citation is very speculative and very weak -- it simply states that "MIT or Lincoln Labs people may well have coined the term as a knock on the competition," without any evidence that anybody remembers anybody actually doing that. And I doubt that Cruft Hall was enough of a landmark outside Harvard for such an allusion to have made sense. So the etymology, which is the most useful part of the page, is probably bogus and should be deleted before it gains credibility. Harrylewis ( talk) 14:38, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
A possible note on the etymology, I have heard this term used for construction debris (leftover bits of wood/metal/shingles/whatever) since I first started working in high school (1980s) but I don't have any references at hand to cite. It might be someplace to look for it though. I also think this article might be better suited to Wiktionary BTW. BearGriz72 ( talk) 20:28, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Fancruft redirects to this article, but the article says nothing about fancruft, & only deals with cruft in terms of programming languages & URLs. I think that - given the widespread use of the term 'cruft' by Wikipedia editors on talk pages & edit sunmmaries, a term which some newcomers may not be familiar with - this article should say more about the concept of cruft & fancruft within wikis & websites (see WP: Cruft & related links at the bottom of it). Weasel Fetlocks ( talk) 12:41, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
I think we should avoid self refrences as to cruft of Wikipedia, also as per WP:UNDUE relating to mentioning of content and some issues shown at WP:BIAS relating to bias that being a wikipidaian gives you (Wikipedians generally favor wikipedia and free software and may give related articles a non-neutral view).-- Ipatrol ( talk) 21:34, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Should there be a section on newscruft? I've seen notations from other editors indicating that they removed content because it was newscruft. -- Dan Dassow ( talk) 12:21, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
This claim is unsourced and unlikely.-- Jack Upland ( talk) 04:41, 22 December 2015 (UTC)