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

[Fastfission]

While I'm personally against "pop-culture cruft", sometimes these "X
in popular culture" pages are not so bad. I complained on here awhile
back that the list of "movies featuring nuclear weapons" in the
[[Nuclear weapon]] article had gotten ridiculously long, so somebody
thoughtfully created [[Nuclear weapons in popular culture]], which is
itself an interesting topic (though the article is still young), one
which allows for more than just a listing.

FF 

On 8/5/05, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
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