[WikiEN-l] What's wrong with the world?

[Andrew Gray]

On 05/08/05, Haukur Þorgeirsson <haukurth at hi.is> wrote:

> For an example see [[Yggdrasil]] which has
> a large Popular Culture section and a disambiguation
> entry, both of which could be summarized with
> "a bunch of things in a bunch of games/novels/etc.
> have been named after the mythological Yggdrasil".

I was about to cite the "Popular Culture" section of [[Space Shuttle
program]] here, but it seems someone finally decided to purge it last
month, and create [[Space Shuttles in fiction]]... it had grown to a
truly silly size -
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Space_Shuttle_program&diff=18685575&oldid=18683806

[[Space station]], whilst no-where near as long, has a section which
basically seems to consist of "X work of fiction contained a space
station". The potential for expansion of this, given the prevalence of
articles about sf books and individual TV episodes, is not a cheering
one... time to purge a little, I think.

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- Andrew Gray
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