Ray Saintonge schrieb:
It _is_ just you.
That was a rhetorical. I know it's not just me.
Those who complain so much about the abundance popular
culture articles
would accomplish more if that complaint time were spent on the
"intellectual" articles that they favour. I have little need to explore
the pop culture articles in any great detail, but others do, and I would
not begrudge them that right. If these "intellectual editors" want to
leave because we do not afford them the pomposity which they believe to
be their due no-one is going to hold them back. An attitude of mutual
respect is important, and if it helps to knock down the image of the
ivory tower so much the better.
But I do like popular culture. And it's an
important area, not least
because it holds some of WP's most popular pages. I favour
well-referenced articles on popular culture topics well-written by
intelligent people. And I wish those people wouldn't have to meddle with
mediocre zealots as much as they sometimes have to. Of course there are
exceptional examples of pop culture FAs, but is it the tendency?
It remains that neither side is obliged
to directly participate in the preferences of the other, only to respect
them.
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Yes, well, no. Not if those preferences run contrary to what Wikipedia
is about. Or should be, in my opinion.