[WikiEN-l] A tidy way of handling "popular culture" references

[David Gerard]

On 23/08/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:26:43 +0100, "Oldak Quill"
> <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:

> >Different references are interesting to different people. I think
> >making these seperate "List of references to..." would be a great way
> >to handle the problem. It is a lesser of two evils.

> But likely to be indiscriminate.  The first bar of Dies Irae is the
> sound played when you kill minor character X in browser game Y, and so
> on.  It doesn't exactly advance the sum of human knowledge.


OTOH it's a very popular line of stuff to add.


- d.