[WikiEN-l] Sourcing "popular culture" items

Thu Nov 9 18:07:40 UTC 2006

On 09/11/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:

> Lower priority than defamation, to be sure.  But I think this is a large
> and growing problem.
> Here is a typical example:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeli_Mateo

This is why I've been saying for ages that pop culture articles are
the other side of WP:BLP - the fans turn them into hagiographies.

- d.