geni wrote:
My general answer to this one is that X in popular culture makes useful padding untill the the article isup to a reasonable size. After that it may be time for it to be culled.
Split off into its own article, you mean.
If it's perfectly good encyclopedia material _before_ the article gets "big enough", then it's perfectly good material _after_ the other parts of the article grow too. The other parts of the article growing has no effect whatsoever on the nature of the material that doesn't grow along with it.