Message: 7 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:59:31 -0400 From: "Gregory Maxwell" gmaxwell@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Does openness dull the bleeding edge? To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Message-ID: e692861c0608310959l42cc7210nf00670afbde9d7ee@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
On 8/31/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
We need a task force with a neutral name who will give these articles some proper respect and make them not *just* dumping grounds. (See [[Nuclear weapons in popular culture]] for a fantastic example - it's all about the social effects.) Something like WikiProject Popular Culture Lists. That way those who like them and those who hate them can work together to make sure they at least don't suck.
Ha! Because so many _in_popular_culture article are dumping grounds... I had assumed that all were.
It's a good point though. Popular culture deserves respectable coverage too, it's not junk ... even if most junk is about popular culture.
A group of people who know what they're doing working on in_popular_culture articles would be excellent (I might, ever so humbly, suggest that I could be one such person... but maybe I'm just a fancruft-adding idiot). The point is, these articles *could* be something other than piles of feces. In some cases, just deleting them and starting over might be the best solution... but most just need pruning of subtrivia and otherwise cleaning up.
Part of the problem, of course, is a lack of people who know what they're doing and have some expertise in the subject area... hey, maybe Pokemon and particle physics articles aren't so different after all. :P
~~Sean