While I'm personally against "pop-culture cruft", sometimes these "X
in popular culture" pages are not so bad. I complained on here awhile
back that the list of "movies featuring nuclear weapons" in the
[[Nuclear weapon]] article had gotten ridiculously long, so somebody
thoughtfully created [[Nuclear weapons in popular culture]], which is
itself an interesting topic (though the article is still young), one
which allows for more than just a listing.
FF
On 8/5/05, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 05/08/05, Haukur Þorgeirsson <haukurth(a)hi.is>
wrote:
For an example see [[Yggdrasil]] which has
a large Popular Culture section and a disambiguation
entry, both of which could be summarized with
"a bunch of things in a bunch of games/novels/etc.
have been named after the mythological Yggdrasil".
I was about to cite the "Popular Culture" section of [[Space Shuttle
program]] here, but it seems someone finally decided to purge it last
month, and create [[Space Shuttles in fiction]]... it had grown to a
truly silly size -
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Space_Shuttle_program&diff=18…
[[Space station]], whilst no-where near as long, has a section which
basically seems to consist of "X work of fiction contained a space
station". The potential for expansion of this, given the prevalence of
articles about sf books and individual TV episodes, is not a cheering
one... time to purge a little, I think.
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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