Steve Bennett wrote:
On 7/21/06, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
Not all articles use something as a source for
itself (e.g., using an
episode of Friends as a source on what happened in an episode of
Friends).
An article about an episode that cites nothing but the episode itself
is a poor article. It amounts to an article about the Mona Lisa simply
putting a high resolution copy of the image and saying "you can see
for yourself".
Sometimes that's the only valid thing you can say. Whether it's a poor
article depends on the writing style, and what you want to accomplish.
In order not to violate NOR, we could say very little
about the episode. We couldn't say if it was good or bad. We couldn't
say what fans thought about it. We couldn't say if the jokes were
funny. We couldn't say it was the first time Rachael kissed Ross.
Some of these would be contrary to NPOV anyway. :-) Apart from that
some of this information could always be added later.
We could say "The episode lasted 23 minutes".
We could offer a plot
summary. We could describe some of the gags. How boring.
Yeah! Facts can be boring.
Ec