Category talk:In popular culture
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- See also Wikipedia:"In popular culture" articles, Wikipedia:Avoid trivia sections in articles and Wikipedia:Trivia.
[edit] The purpose of this category
The secretly true purpose of this category of articles, of all of these articles, is to keep trivial garbage out of their main articles. Take any well visited article, which we'll call fooo, and before long it will begin to amass a long section of useless crappy trivia. No matter how much effort you put into removing the trivia, it keeps coming back. So you create fooo in popular culture, move all the trivia there, and suddenly the main article is bright and shining and free, while the "in popular culture" article contains all the useless info about Simpsons and videogames references. --Xyzzyplugh 17:46, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
- You got it! Did you know this category was once mentioned in Buffy the Vampire Slayer? –Outʀiggʀ 20:59, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
- I love this discussion. So true. I'm a veteran of minor "edit battle" at Orang utan. The solution was a seperate article.Merbabu 03:30, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Let the pop culture accumulate long enough and you might buff it up into a featured list: Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc. Durova 21:07, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Music in popular culture
Should musical groups and pieces that are referenced in popular culture (Rush in popular culture, The Planets in popular culture, etc.) be seperated into a sub-category for connvinence? Or perhaps more generally, should "In popular culture" be given a larger number of sub-categories? 66.24.236.62 23:08, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- I would say yes to the music groups and pieces. Newly added: The Beatles' influence on popular culture. Pavel Vozenilek 11:33, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Lists or articles
Most of these items are hardly encyclopedia articles but ad hoc unsystematic lists of american tv and film grabs - is anyone going to do an overview article or even attempt to take it out of some of the most problematic set of articles in wikipedia? featured list"'? hardly. SatuSuro 02:01, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
