[WikiEN-l] Sourcing "popular culture" items

Thu Nov 9 22:44:32 UTC 2006

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.

Charles

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