Adrian wrote:
David Gerard schrieb:
The comment associated with " ...in Popular Culture" (i.e. Family
Guy)
has my full support.
A certain commentary at
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/30/142458/25 comes to mind. Again.
Seriously, why can't we? We're getting swamped with fan-writing on all
sorts of topics, much of it related to popular culture. I believe we
need to reign this in before even more intellectual editors decide leave
this kindergarten. Why is fan enthusiam encouraged over professional
enthusiasm? It may give Wikipedia greater popularity in the short run,
but it's ruining it in the long run. Or is it just me?
It _is_ just you.
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. It remains that neither side is obliged
to directly participate in the preferences of the other, only to respect
them.
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