Snowspinner wrote:
On Feb 17, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Fastfission wrote:
But I had a recent thought about it. Wouldn't any discussions about the impact or prevalence of something in popular culture need to have been discussed by a secondary source first before it was allowed into an article under WP:NOR?
NOR has long been a bit slippery with fiction, both popular and literary. The problem is that by the most hardline interpretation of NOR, plot summaries of novels aren't allowed. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective), bending NOR for fictional texts has led to things like the "in popular culture" sections. But unbending it is its own sort of problematic.
How about computer and video games? What if no-one else has ever written about it? Should we not have articles on them?