Phil Sandifer wrote
- Does this cause problems with systemic bias, whereby American,
Canadian, and British popular culture will all be far easier to write about than other countries due to the prevalence of English-language fandoms that generate sources?
Well, that's probably right, in its own terms. It is really at the opposite end of my own systemic bias concerns. It might also be much harder to source comments about large settlements in Central Africa, compared to one-horse towns in Western Europe.
Charles
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charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Phil Sandifer wrote
- Does this cause problems with systemic bias, whereby American,
Canadian, and British popular culture will all be far easier to write about than other countries due to the prevalence of English-language fandoms that generate sources?
Well, that's probably right, in its own terms. It is really at the opposite end of my own systemic bias concerns. It might also be much harder to source comments about large settlements in Central Africa, compared to one-horse towns in Western Europe.
There's more than people might think though. Not only does the Historical Dictionary series for African countries have lots of directly usable material, but the authors routinely apologize for having "only" a thousand entries in a volume's bibliography. I don't think anybody should be moaning about lack of sources until every one of those thousand entries (per country!) is cited in at least one WP article.
Stan