[WikiEN-l] XKCD in Popular Culture

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Thu Jul 10 18:53:18 UTC 2008


2008/7/10 David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com>:

> I strongly agree that articles on X in popular culture [etc]  are
> better than extensive sections in the general article,  but it's usual
> to collect material in broad topics until there's enough for more
> specific articles. In such a general article, it would best be worded
> as representative examples of various specific woods being used per
> the spirit of summary style. And those who oppose such content oppose
> it no matter where it goes.


Some can be better than others, when there's decent research available
on the subject in popular culture itself. [[Nuclear weapons in popular
culture]] is a good example. An "in popular culture" article is
ideally sociology, not pop culture example-collecting.


- d.



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