Fastfission wrote:
The "removal of content" aspect is the rub. What I'm planning to do with the section on [[Nuclear weapon]] is to rewrite that section to be more encyclopedic, mentioning a few *significant* cultural additions (i.e. that [[Dr. Strangelove]] became the paradigmatic movie and way of thinking about MAD; the way in which [[Godzilla]] became the exemplar of "monster made huge by radiation" movies, coming out just months after the [[Castle Bravo]] fallout incident which so panicked the Japanese; the way in which [[The Day After]] is an excellent example of "pathologization" of nuclear war which comes out of the Reagan years; etc.) in a way which discourages "list making."
You don't ned to actually *remove* even the trivia. Write a two-para summary for the main article, with a link ''Main article: [[Nuclear weapons in popular culture]]'', make *that* article your essay - don't forget the immaculate sociological references ;-) - then include a link *there* to [[List of ...]] something. Make a section ==Nuclear weapons in popular culture == and make its content ''See [[List of ...]]''. Also see if categories are your friend.
That way, you get the pop culture and sociology out of the main article where it doesn't really belong, and you have two new articles which very self-evidently show what belongs in them.
This is more work, but produces a thoroughly elegant result ;-)
- d.