Ray Saintonge schrieb:
It _is_ just you.
That was a rhetorical. I know it's not just me.
Those who complain so much about the abundance popular culture articles would accomplish more if that complaint time were spent on the "intellectual" articles that they favour. I have little need to explore the pop culture articles in any great detail, but others do, and I would not begrudge them that right. If these "intellectual editors" want to leave because we do not afford them the pomposity which they believe to be their due no-one is going to hold them back. An attitude of mutual respect is important, and if it helps to knock down the image of the ivory tower so much the better.
But I do like popular culture. And it's an important area, not least because it holds some of WP's most popular pages. I favour well-referenced articles on popular culture topics well-written by intelligent people. And I wish those people wouldn't have to meddle with mediocre zealots as much as they sometimes have to. Of course there are exceptional examples of pop culture FAs, but is it the tendency?
It remains that neither side is obliged to directly participate in the preferences of the other, only to respect them.
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Yes, well, no. Not if those preferences run contrary to what Wikipedia is about. Or should be, in my opinion.