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Factual Error GOOFS on cartoons

Looking for opinions or guidance.

I've been watching a lot of Looney Tunes lately, and I've noticed a disconcerting number of "Factual Error" GOOFs for them.  Examples (paraphrased):

The below is from "Beep Prepared"

 - the magnet Wile E. Coyote is wearing while on roller skates to catch the roadrunner who has eaten ball-bearing bird seed, would stick to the rail road tracks instead of continuing to follow the roadrunner.

The below are from "Haredevil Hare"

 - Bugs Bunny is in a space ship and opens the escape hatch; he would be sucked out of the rocket due to the vacuum of space and die.

 - In the space ship, Bugs and his carrots would be floating around as there is no gravity in space.

 - Bugs Bunny would bounce as he walked on the moon because his weight would be only 1/6 as much due to lower gravity on the moon.

The below is from "Buccaneer Bunny"

 - Yosemite Sam fires 3 shots in a row from a one-shot pistol

That's just a few of the (IMO ridiculous) entries I've seen. I usually edit them to be "Incorrectly regarded as goof" with an explanation that it's cartoon physics. However, due to the shear number of these "factual cartoon errors", I'd like to just flag them for deletion as I don't think anyone who watches cartoons, other than the person who submitted these, would seriously consider items like the above to be Goofs.

There's no guidance that I'm aware of in the IMDb Style Guide regarding this. Would deletion be acceptable (on the basis of "IT'S A CARTOON! IT'S NOT REAL.) or should they simply be flagged as "Incorrectly regarded as Goof"? Or maybe the bigger question is "Can there ever be a FACTUAL MISTAKE Goof in a cartoon?

Thanks for any feedback.

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Seriously need to get out more...

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The "Incorrectly regarded as goofs" category is meant for popular misconceptions about a work, it's not supposed to be a correction tool for all existing goofs. The examples you are given violate the artistic license exemptions and the directive that a goof must be relevant and interesting as outlined on the FAQ page: https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/goofs/GFDUF27RBTQGS8UZ#, so it's better to submit them for deletion on these grounds.