On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:30 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Can you explain the obvious to people it isn't obvious to? With references?
Your comment there reminds me of a mini-battle I had on Wikipedia.
I started articles on various forms of published 'criticism'. We already had 'music journalism' but I started ones on, for example, 'dance criticism'; you can see the template that arose at the bottom of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_criticism
So I just started off several articles stating, as blandly as I could, what criticism of those things meant. But I couldn't provide any references and my stubs were tagged for deletion as being original research. Find *examples* of such writings, sure, not a problem at all.
I was merely trying to state the obvious existence of these forms of writing, but because it was so obvious nobody on the web had written *about the writing* itself. There wasn't any meta-level discussion of these things.
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