Message: 4
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:18:27 +0200
From: "Steve Bennett" <stevagewp(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Does openness dull the bleeding edge?
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org>
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On 8/31/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)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&ol…]
... 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