http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succubus
I quite like the tidy "References to succubi in modern times" section. There's just a single sentence on each reference, with the name of the TV show or whatever in bold. I would not be ashamed to see more sections like this.
Steve
Steve Bennett wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succubus
I quite like the tidy "References to succubi in modern times" section. There's just a single sentence on each reference, with the name of the TV show or whatever in bold. I would not be ashamed to see more sections like this.
It's not tidy, it's ugly and inconsistant. To top it off, there's a notice at the top saying "For usage of the succubus in popular culture, see [[Succubi in fiction]]" - so what the bloody hell is this section even doing in this article?
AWe> It's not tidy, it's ugly and inconsistant. To top it off, there's a AWe> notice at the top saying "For usage of the succubus in popular culture, AWe> see [[Succubi in fiction]]" - so what the bloody hell is this section AWe> even doing in this article?
I've seen worse: The content of this article used to be in [[The Raven]], a large part of it was about pop culture...
On 8/23/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
It's not tidy, it's ugly and inconsistant. To top it off, there's a notice at the top saying "For usage of the succubus in popular culture, see [[Succubi in fiction]]" - so what the bloody hell is this section even doing in this article?
Heh, I missed that. The perennial problem: there are 50 X. It would be good if the article had about 5 X. But which ones?
Some of these lists of references could be interesting, but if they were turned into actual [[List of references to Y in popular culture]] they'd probably get AfD'ed.
Steve
On 23/08/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Some of these lists of references could be interesting, but if they were turned into actual [[List of references to Y in popular culture]] they'd probably get AfD'ed.
Different references are interesting to different people. I think making these seperate "List of references to..." would be a great way to handle the problem. It is a lesser of two evils.
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:26:43 +0100, "Oldak Quill" oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
Different references are interesting to different people. I think making these seperate "List of references to..." would be a great way to handle the problem. It is a lesser of two evils.
But likely to be indiscriminate. The first bar of Dies Irae is the sound played when you kill minor character X in browser game Y, and so on. It doesn't exactly advance the sum of human knowledge.
Guy (JzG)
On 23/08/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:26:43 +0100, "Oldak Quill" oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
Different references are interesting to different people. I think making these seperate "List of references to..." would be a great way to handle the problem. It is a lesser of two evils.
But likely to be indiscriminate. The first bar of Dies Irae is the sound played when you kill minor character X in browser game Y, and so on. It doesn't exactly advance the sum of human knowledge.
OTOH it's a very popular line of stuff to add.
- d.
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:47:12 +0100, "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
But likely to be indiscriminate. The first bar of Dies Irae is the sound played when you kill minor character X in browser game Y, and so on. It doesn't exactly advance the sum of human knowledge.
OTOH it's a very popular line of stuff to add.
Popular with whom? The people who already knew it? Or people who have never played that browser game and never will?
Guy (JzG)
On 23/08/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:47:12 +0100, "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
But likely to be indiscriminate. The first bar of Dies Irae is the sound played when you kill minor character X in browser game Y, and so on. It doesn't exactly advance the sum of human knowledge.
OTOH it's a very popular line of stuff to add.
Popular with whom? The people who already knew it? Or people who have never played that browser game and never will?
The people who add this stuff to articles way out of proportion to the actual subjects of the articles. Your task now: assume you can't hold back the locust swarm with a policy edict; say something to *convince* them this is not a good idea.
- d.
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:05:44 +0100, "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The people who add this stuff to articles way out of proportion to the actual subjects of the articles. Your task now: assume you can't hold back the locust swarm with a policy edict; say something to *convince* them this is not a good idea.
Quicker just to rangeblock AOL :-)
Guy (JzG)
"David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The people who add this stuff to articles way out of proportion to the actual subjects of the articles. Your task now: assume you can't hold back the locust swarm with a policy edict; say something to *convince* them this is not a good idea.
"Buy your own servers!" -- or would that be "OK, we'll buy our own servers"?
Anyway, whoever becomes the trunk, I very much assume that this will be one fissure in the forking to come.
[[User:Pjacobi]]
On 8/23/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The people who add this stuff to articles way out of proportion to the actual subjects of the articles. Your task now: assume you can't hold back the locust swarm with a policy edict; say something to *convince* them this is not a good idea.
Follow De's lead and retire the text that says 'anyone can edit' in favor of 'Good writers always welcome'?
;)
On 8/23/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:47:12 +0100, "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
OTOH it's a very popular line of stuff to add.
Popular with whom? The people who already knew it? Or people who have never played that browser game and never will?
Popular with those adding it, I would imagine.
-Matt
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:23:44 -0700, "Matt Brown" morven@gmail.com wrote:
Popular with whom? The people who already knew it? Or people who have never played that browser game and never will?
Popular with those adding it, I would imagine.
So are garage bands.
Guy (JzG)
On 8/23/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
But likely to be indiscriminate. The first bar of Dies Irae is the sound played when you kill minor character X in browser game Y, and so on. It doesn't exactly advance the sum of human knowledge.
It could be somewhat ordered. Start with whole books, movies or TV series that are named after, or totally based on the thing. Then TV episodes, signifcant parts of movies etc. Then really well known references (eg, when the Simpsons deliberately "spoils" the Empire Strikes Back is a pretty well known moment, even for the Simpsons). Then the "anything goes" section.
Delete the "anything goes" section every 6 months.
Steve