[WikiEN-l] Sourcing "popular culture" items

charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Thu Nov 9 22:44:32 UTC 2006


Phil Sandifer wrote

> 2) Does this cause problems with systemic bias, whereby American,  
> Canadian, and British popular culture will all be far easier to write  
> about than other countries due to the prevalence of English-language  
> fandoms that generate sources?

Well, that's probably right, in its own terms. It is really at the opposite end of my own systemic bias concerns. It might also be much harder to source comments about large settlements in Central Africa, compared to one-horse towns in Western Europe.

Charles

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