And it's not as much that one game might use it. If multiple games use it, then there is almost certainly some interesting thinking going on--and that is usually the case--most of the challenged articles are one in which the cultural figure has dozens of references in later work--and such articles then get attacked as indiscriminate.
there are more things in the world than any one of us is able to imagine, let alone know about. That's why we have a common project, and include each others' hobbyhorses.
On 11/26/07, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Quoting Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca:
joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
3 isn't trivia, it is cultural references. May I ask what is wrong with letting as you put it "teeny boppers" know how what things are referring to? I've seen kids become more interested in history and other subjects after they learn how many references the Simpsons, Family Guy and similar shows make to elements of the Western canon. So what is wrong with such sections other than that you don't like reading them?
I think he's talking about putting the trivia about Family Guy or the Simpsons into the article on the philosopher, rather than the other way around.
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.
I'm going to have to disagree somewhat. If a kid say has to do a report on Pascal he won't find out that interesting tidbit that gets him to actually care about the subject if he reads the Pascal entry if we only have that in the entry on Porcupine Commandos.
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