On 11/29/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:28:49 -0800, "George Herbert" george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
the vast majority of popular culture items have not been subjected to independent research and are not documentable other than the particular
item
of culture itself.
I quite agree. And this is, for me, a major problem, in that it sends all the wrong messages about original research.
In particular to the editors working on those articles.
I was wondering if it would be a positive step to strongly encourage the popular culture articles to move towards at least citing the (potentially unreliable) primary pop culture source for various factoids (for example, "Character did X" <ref episode XYZ>). Whether we treat those topics as having any reliable sources or not (by normal WP standards), referencing the primary source extensively would set a good example.