"geni" geniice@gmail.com wrote in message news:f80608430511150500t6aaa9acjcb917f2fe5d7d4d2@mail.gmail.com... On 11/15/05, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
As for the "X in popular culture" plague, I recently (well, a few weeks ago) found one of these in one of the first article merges I did. I understand that the information has to go *somewhere*; it's just a matter of where... should every known appearance of railguns in ficiton appear in the "railgun" article, or be spread out between the articles on a dozen games, movies and books?
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.
I am almost shocked speechless.
Are you seriously suggesting that we should be deleting perfectly good information simply because you think that a particular article has reached some threshold size which you consider "big enough"?
Does "Wikipedia is not paper" mean nothing to you?