Talk:Edgar Allan Poe in popular culture

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[edit] Good start

This is a good start... But, should this be an overview of all Poe in pop culture info? That would include, I'm assuming, all the film/TV and music stuff (links to main pages under a section header). It seems right now it's only focused on literature, which is okay, but in that case the article should be "Edgar Allan Poe in literature." I think it would be convenient to use this as a starting point to, well, all the pop culture references, allusions, interpretations, etc. Thoughts? Midnightdreary 00:02, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes there is a bit of naming problem. "X in popular culture deal specifically with someone as a fictional character. To this end Edgar Allan Poe in television and film and Edgar Allan Poe and music are either confusing or misnamed. They are specifically for adaptations of Poe's work. I am now removing things from thre about Poe as a fictional character and it should become clearer. A renaming of those two secitons might be a good idea. Like Edgar Allan Poe's work adapted for television and film and Edgar Allan Poe's work adapted for music, etc. to fully clarify. However, that might cut out allusions to his work so they might be OK as long as everyone is clear about what goes where. (Emperor 02:31, 3 March 2007 (UTC))

OK I've doen the mvoe and checked through and the other entries look OK. I have added notes of clarification in the "see also" sections of each page. (Emperor 02:37, 3 March 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Edgar Allan Poe IV?

Edgar Allan Poe had no children. Hence, he cannot have any descendents. The claim added to the article that this supposed "Edgar Allan Poe IV" actor is a descendent of Poe is fraudulent. I'm removing it. Wje 06:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to put it back and reword it. I think "descendent" and "direct descendent" are a bit different. Let me know how it looks in its new version. Midnightdreary 15:22, 14 March 2007 (UTC)