"Stuff that people have made up" includes all of literature,
philosophy, religion, music, the fine arts, architecture, artifacts,
politics, and human organisations in general. Everything except the
physical and biological world. In other words, most of the
encyclopedia.
I gather the intended meaning was popular culture.
How do you intend to distinguish popular culture as distinct from high
culture, or recognized academic culture?
Or do you mean it to exclude fiction altogether? On what justification
can you exclude fiction, but not paintings or music?
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2008/7/11 Stephen Bain
<stephen.bain(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:30 AM, Ian Woollard
<ian.woollard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe, although arguably, it might be claimed that a separate pedia
about stuff that people have made up might be ultimately appropriate.
Most of the more popular ones have their own wikis (many at Wikia).
Sure, but few of them try to cover a general topic from a non
in-universe POV, like [[flying car (fiction)]]; I think the point
would be that you would be able to manage the articles better, because
you could enforce standards. Right now it's all intermingled fact and
fiction in articles, I think that that's a bad thing for both parts of
the articles.
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