On 11/29/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:28:49 -0800, "George Herbert"
<george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
the vast majority of popular culture items have
not been subjected to
independent research and are not documentable other than the particular
item
of culture itself.
I quite agree. And this is, for me, a major problem, in that it sends
all the wrong messages about original research.
In particular to the editors working on those articles.
I was wondering if it would be a positive step to strongly encourage the
popular culture articles to move towards at least citing the (potentially
unreliable) primary pop culture source for various factoids (for example,
"Character did X" <ref episode XYZ>). Whether we treat those topics as
having any reliable sources or not (by normal WP standards), referencing the
primary source extensively would set a good example.
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-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com