[WikiEN-l] Pop culture articles (was WP:LIVING and "sensitivity" again)

[Sean Black]

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> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:44:20 -0400
> From: Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] WP:LIVING and "sensitivity" again
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> On Aug 29, 2006, at 6:37 PM, geni wrote:
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> > On 8/29/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Yes. Bluntly, most of our articles about pop cultural figures need
> >> an enema.
> >
> > Evedences?
>
> Have you ever READ a popular culture article?
>
> Particularly one about a fictional character, where you've got better-
> than-even chances of being right to add {{cleanup fiction-as-fact}}
> to it before you even start to deal with its other problems, of which
> there will be many.

And have you ever considerd trying to fix that and improve the
articles instead of complaining about it on some mailing list? It's
amazing how often the people who have virtually no experience actually
editing articles and creating content are the ones who complain the
most.

~~ Sean