It feels to me that the arguments being made by those opposed to this content is that it's "out of scope for the article", and that putting this information in somehow violates our guidelines about undue weight, since nobody but a couple of academics cares about it and it's irrelevant.
I find both quite troubling. "Undue weight" doesn't mean "Remove all academics from popular culture articles because fans don't care, and fans outnumber academics 10,000:1".
Attempts to define an article's scope as excluding academic content are also problematic.
-Matt