On 11/26/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
Ie, if there's a fictional character named Pascal
on the cartoon
Porcupine Commandos, we might quite reasonably put "Pascal is named
after the French philosopher [[Blaise Pascal]]" into the article
[[Porcupine Commandos]], but putting "The cartoon porcupine in
[[Porcupine Commandos]] is named after this philosopher" into the
article [[Blaise Pascal]] is the sort of trivia that even I think is
probably a little too obscure to warrant inclusion.
Yes. But I wouldn't say it's too "obscure", I'd say it's too
banal -
it's simply not interesting or unusual enough.
Steve