Fastfission wrote:
The "removal of content" aspect is the rub.
What I'm planning to do
with the section on [[Nuclear weapon]] is to rewrite that section to
be more encyclopedic, mentioning a few *significant* cultural
additions (i.e. that [[Dr. Strangelove]] became the paradigmatic movie
and way of thinking about MAD; the way in which [[Godzilla]] became
the exemplar of "monster made huge by radiation" movies, coming out
just months after the [[Castle Bravo]] fallout incident which so
panicked the Japanese; the way in which [[The Day After]] is an
excellent example of "pathologization" of nuclear war which comes out
of the Reagan years; etc.) in a way which discourages "list making."
You don't ned to actually *remove* even the trivia. Write a two-para
summary for the main article, with a link ''Main article: [[Nuclear
weapons in popular culture]]'', make *that* article your essay - don't
forget the immaculate sociological references ;-) - then include a link
*there* to [[List of ...]] something. Make a section ==Nuclear weapons
in popular culture == and make its content ''See [[List of ...]]''.
Also see if categories are your friend.
That way, you get the pop culture and sociology out of the main article
where it doesn't really belong, and you have two new articles which very
self-evidently show what belongs in them.
This is more work, but produces a thoroughly elegant result ;-)
- d.