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opinion is that it becomes competitive. There's then nothing to stop a
Kennedy fan adding a section on how some fans think she's wonderful, and referencing a Kennedy fan site. At which point the article's saying nothing beyond, "A bunch of fans think this, a bunch of other fans think that", which is gonna be the case for every character and every storyline and every episode, and isn't notable. So it needs to be something more than just direct fan opinion, a secondary source like, I guess, that Zapt2it article. All of which is just based on my understanding of Knowledge (XXG)'s stance on these things.--
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opinion imaginable, so the simple fact that an opinion is expressed by a fan doesn't make it notable. Anyway, my objection was just to the comments about what "most" fans think, which gave no verifiable evidence to back that up.--
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