[WikiEN-l] Trivia and popular culture sections

Ben Yates bluephonic at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 23:09:16 UTC 2006


That's fair, but it doesn't seem hard to find a source for this issue.

On 2/24/06, John Lee <johnleemk at gawab.com> wrote:
> Ben Yates wrote:
>
> >It's still useful; you just have to use your head more -- you have to
> >think about what the odds might be that a 1st-tier celebrity is named
> >after the song, and how many other people might be named after it
> >because of that, for example.  It might not be a perfectly
> >encapsulated summary of the spike in "Jude" names, complete with SVG
> >charts (and a control group showing no similar spike in "Sharona"
> >babies in the early '80s) but it'll never grow into that if the
> >reference is removed off the bat.
> >
> >
> Without sources it is [[wikipedia:original research]] and inadmissible.
>
> John
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