[WikiEN-l] On popular culture articles

[David Goodman]

In particular the articles on "Characters in [whatever]" or "List of
murders in [some series]" have always seemed to be enormously helpful
in keeping things straight.  The more obscure the minor characters,
the more we need an encyclopedia.

On 12/4/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looking for something mindless to watch as I worked tonight, I pulled
> a random animated series DVD off the shelf at the library. ("American
> Dad". It appears to be "just like Family Guy, but with
> war-on-terrorism jokes". If you like one you'll like the other, and if
> one annoys you ditto, but I digress.)
>
> I watched a couple of episodes, got a vague idea what was going on
> (and ironed my shirts). Then I sat down, paid a bit more attention,
> and watched one without getting distracted.
>
> And the test.
>
> I then read our (characteristically exhaustive) article on that
> episode, and came away knowing about twice as much about what had
> happened in it as I had by actually watching the damn thing.
>
> I'm not sure if this is a positive or negative sign, but it struck me
> as an amusing experiment!
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>
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David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.