charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com wrote:
Phil Sandifer wrote
2) Does this cause problems with systemic bias,
whereby American,
Canadian, and British popular culture will all be far easier to write
about than other countries due to the prevalence of English-language
fandoms that generate sources?
Well, that's probably right, in its own terms. It is really at the opposite end of my
own systemic bias concerns. It might also be much harder to source comments about large
settlements in Central Africa, compared to one-horse towns in Western Europe.
There's more than people might think though. Not only does the
Historical Dictionary series for African countries have lots of directly
usable material, but the authors routinely apologize for having "only" a
thousand entries in a volume's bibliography. I don't think anybody
should be moaning about lack of sources until every one of those
thousand entries (per country!) is cited in at least one WP article.
Stan