[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 14:47:12 +0100, "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com>
> wrote:

> >> 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.

> Popular with whom?  The people who already knew it?  Or people who
> have never played that browser game and never will?


The people who add this stuff to articles way out of proportion to the
actual subjects of the articles. Your task now: assume you can't hold
back the locust swarm with a policy edict; say something to *convince*
them this is not a good idea.


- d.