[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia as culturally assumed

[Steve Bennett]

On 11/26/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Ie, if there's a fictional character named Pascal on the cartoon
> Porcupine Commandos, we might quite reasonably put "Pascal is named
> after the French philosopher [[Blaise Pascal]]" into the article
> [[Porcupine Commandos]], but putting "The cartoon porcupine in
> [[Porcupine Commandos]] is named after this philosopher" into the
> article [[Blaise Pascal]] is the sort of trivia that even I think is
> probably a little too obscure to warrant inclusion.

Yes. But I wouldn't say it's too "obscure", I'd say it's too banal -
it's simply not interesting or unusual enough.

Steve