Steve Bennett wrote:
On 7/21/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
Not all articles use something as a source for itself (e.g., using an episode of Friends as a source on what happened in an episode of Friends).
An article about an episode that cites nothing but the episode itself is a poor article. It amounts to an article about the Mona Lisa simply putting a high resolution copy of the image and saying "you can see for yourself".
Sometimes that's the only valid thing you can say. Whether it's a poor article depends on the writing style, and what you want to accomplish.
In order not to violate NOR, we could say very little about the episode. We couldn't say if it was good or bad. We couldn't say what fans thought about it. We couldn't say if the jokes were funny. We couldn't say it was the first time Rachael kissed Ross.
Some of these would be contrary to NPOV anyway. :-) Apart from that some of this information could always be added later.
We could say "The episode lasted 23 minutes". We could offer a plot summary. We could describe some of the gags. How boring.
Yeah! Facts can be boring.
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