[WikiEN-l] Episode summaries

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Tue Oct 17 19:33:26 UTC 2006


On 17/10/06, Earle Martin <wikipedia at downlode.org> wrote:

> > -No source, based entirely on editor's personal knowledge! THese
> > things are all over these summaries!
>
> I'd say nuke anything like that from orbit, along with any
> critic-esque writing that claims to describe the hidden allegorical
> meaning of a film, painting, book, music video/song lyrics, etc.,
> without providing a reference from the director, artist, author or
> other creator of the item in question.

Couldn't we consider citing, say, the enormously vast corpus of Actual
Serious literary and artistic criticism? Original research is one
thing, but attempting to prohibit using any research whatsoever may be
going over the top...

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk



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