Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 23:52:21 -0700, ScottL scott@mu.org wrote:
However, an article on a fictional work is not a literary critique, it has some of that in it. However in this case it is an encyclopedia article and depending on the work may include a lot more, some of which are facts that can (only?) be verified from the original work.
If there are no secondary sources I'd say it was unencyclopaedic anyway. Mind you, for my money we'd have a single one-paragraph article on the entire subject of Pokémon...
What makes something encyclopedic is that there are people who want to read about the subject.
A single sentence in your Pokémon article could be, "The names of the Pokemon characters are 'Pikachu, Bulbasaurus, ...'." :-) In deference to an other class of luddites I would then omit the accent from "Pokémon".
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