Talking about how many films show New York City being destroyed (by monsters, ice age, time, etc), Wikipedia entry on a film is used to describe its plot:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/the-irresistible-urge-to-destro...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame_%281983_film%29
On 12/27/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Talking about how many films show New York City being destroyed (by monsters, ice age, time, etc), Wikipedia entry on a film is used to describe its plot:
Is this remarkable? Even if the NYT itself referenced Wikipedia, would that be unusual?
Steve
On 12/29/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/27/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Talking about how many films show New York City being destroyed (by monsters, ice age, time, etc), Wikipedia entry on a film is used to describe its plot:
Is this remarkable? Even if the NYT itself referenced Wikipedia, would that be unusual?
To answer my own question, yes, it would be very unusual: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=opera&rls=en&hs=fSZ&am...
It's only happened twice, and both articles were actually about Wikipedia. The blogs reference it all the time though.
Steve
Steve Bennett wrote:
On 12/27/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Talking about how many films show New York City being destroyed (by monsters, ice age, time, etc), Wikipedia entry on a film is used to describe its plot:
Is this remarkable? Even if the NYT itself referenced Wikipedia, would that be unusual?
Nah ... the real question is: who will be first to use this citing as evidence for their position regarding spoiler tags?