joshua.zelinsky(a)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.