Wikipedia:WikiProject Popular Culture

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WikiProject Popular Culture aims to preserve "In popular culture" and "Trivia"-type information in Wikipedia in a manner that does not compromise Wikipedia's core principles or its quality.

WikiProject Popular Culture
Category: In popular culture
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[edit] Principles

  • Information is information. "Trivia", "In popular culture", and similar sections are often excised from Wikipedia. "In popular culture" articles were, at one time, deleted even more routinely. We feel this is a case of a vocal minority overriding the interests of a scattered majority. The prevalence of such sections demonstrates a broad interest in having such information on Wikipedia.
  • Every article its reader. The principles we embrace match those of the five laws of library science – in particular, "for every reader, his or her book" and "for every book, its reader". Given that Wikipedia is not paper, there is no justification for deleting specialty-interest information from the encyclopedia because a subset of our readers do not share those interests.
  • We uphold Wikipedia's core content policies. All material in Wikipedia, "trivial" or not, must be verifiable, neutral, and well-organized. Note that there is no overarching policy on how Wikipedia must be organized -- this is an organic principle, brought about by the collective effort of many thousands of Wikipedia editors.

[edit] Goals

We seek to:

  • Preserve compliant content. If material is verifiable, neutral, and well-organized, we feel deleting it is an inappropriate act -- an expression of personal distaste not in keeping with the goal of creating the world's best encyclopedia.
  • Make articles more compliant with core content policies. If we come across information that is unlikely to be verifiable, we shall delete it. If we see a fact could be moved to a more relevant section of an article (or a more relevant article), we will integrate it. If we come across a large and disorganized "In popular culture" list, we will sort and subcategorize its entries and take other steps to improve its presentation. If we can find sources for any trivia or pop-culture information (including primary sources, with some restrictions), we will add a citation to it. Work of this sort can also be done via a related project, WikiProject Trivia Cleanup.
  • Work with others to forge sustainable "trivia" and "pop culture" practices and policies. We agree with other editors that Wikipedia's coverage of "trivia" and "pop culture" interrelations should not distract from our basic coverage of any given subject. However, it is not desirable to restrict our coverage to "basic information"; any information that is compliant with core policies and well-organized improves the value of Wikipedia overall. We hope to establish a manner of organizing and presenting this content that is acceptable to the broad community of editors.

[edit] Active tasks

[edit] General summary of trivia and popular culture on Wikipedia

See the quick summary about trivia on this project's subpage.

[edit] Article improvement

This project is devoted to improving sections and articles that are solely focused on the pop-culture influence of subjects. These articles are like any other article, and they should describe the subject in a clear and informative way. The article should have a logical flow; related items should be grouped together, and unselective lists are discouraged. Alphabetical, regional, date and other forms of order should be applied. Where possible, lists should also be avoided in favour of prose. Some articles also need to present the subject with a more worldwide view.

Most of the articles covered by this WikiProject should be in Category:In popular culture or one of its subcategories. List "In popular culture" that need immediate attention for sourcing, better organization, introductory context, etc.:

[edit] Good article nominations

This sections is for articles nominated for GA status that could use some additional attention and surface editing.

[edit] Category maintenance

Category:In popular culture should be cleaned up and put into good order. Articles that should not be in the category can be removed, and articles should be grouped into categories based on topic, like science, art, music, people, fictional characters, ect.

[edit] Articles facing deletion

Please list ongoing debates here. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Popular culture for past debates.

[edit] Articles facing deletion review

Please list ongoing reviews here.

[edit] Trivia cleanup

This project also encourages integrating "Trivia" sections and eliminating the backlog of articles in Category:Articles with trivia sections. See the related Wikipedia:WikiProject Trivia Cleanup

[edit] Information salvage

List now-deleted trivia and popular culture sections here that could have been sourced, organized, and integrated more in compliance with Wikipedia:Trivia sections. Try not to start battles over "trivia" in these articles; just improve their content in ways that hopefully can be considered uncontroversial.

[edit] Article Statistics

WikiProject Popular Culture
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Good article GA 2 2
B 26 21 1 48
Start 2 30 85 91 208
Stub 5 11 16
List 3 2 5
Assessed 2 58 114 105 279
Unassessed 1 1
Total 2 58 114 105 1 280

[edit] Members

[edit] Userboxen

These are userboxen showing your support for Project Pop Culture. Feel free to make and add your own creations.

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{{User:ErgoSum88/trivia}}
This user likes "Trivia" and "In popular culture" information, and supports their inclusion.


{{WPPC}}
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WikiProject Popular Culture