Message: 4 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:18:27 +0200 From: "Steve Bennett" stevagewp@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Does openness dull the bleeding edge? To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Message-ID: b8ceeef70608310418q56ec67c1v54823a49f0f6bf59@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
On 8/31/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
How would you feel about adding beautiful and insightful prose to an article on a university, only to find that someone has later added: "In a 1999 episode ("Lovers' Walk," Season 3, Episode 8) of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joyce (Buffy's mother) says to Buffy, "[[Carnegie Mellon]]has a wonderful design curriculum.""
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carnegie_Mellon_University&old...]
... Delighted, no doubt!
The solution isn't bad though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_University_in_popular_culture
Actually, I'd say that's worse, because it enforces the idea that all references to fiction in an article on a "real" topic are on equal footing and of equal importance, which simply isn't true.
Despite the poor quality and excess that many of these sections suffer from, it /is/ possible to write a good section about a subject's coverage and appearances in fiction. It just isn't done the way it should be often enough.
~~Sean