By that standard, you would say, if there has been a critical review or two, it is not worth putting in until there have been a greatman ycritical reviews. I think it's almost the other way around: when there are a great many, we select the most important--in both cases.
It is still rare that there is any serious academic work on a popular culture topic (though popular musics seems to be one of the topics that has relatively more such work than many other areas). this is no reason to ignore what there is. Obviously, there is work that is relatively trivial and work that is ore important--but this is true in all types of work on all subjects.
Perhaps your work is important, perhaps not. Someone other than you is the best judge of that either way.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Matthew Brown wrote:
It feels to me that the arguments being made by those opposed to this content is that it's "out of scope for the article", and that putting this information in somehow violates our guidelines about undue weight, since nobody but a couple of academics cares about it and it's irrelevant.
I find both quite troubling. "Undue weight" doesn't mean "Remove all academics from popular culture articles because fans don't care, and fans outnumber academics 10,000:1".
It's a judgment call, though, which despite being an academic myself I can see often going the other way. If there has been a journal article or two on a popular rock band, is this automatically worth citing in the article? I would say no. If there's a significant body of literature discussing the subject, then I'd consider that worth mentioning. But if there's only been a handful of isolated articles on the subject, they'd have to be pretty influential / widely cited articles to be worth summarizing without giving undue weight.
I mean, I've personally published journal articles about [[WarioWare]]. Do I think it's worth adding a section to that article summarizing my work? Well, no---in the scope of a general article on WarioWare, my handful of not particularly influential articles would be given rather undue weight to be mentioned.
-Mark
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