We get articles rejected at afd every day because there is no outside criticism. To then have criticism rejected because it is academic is a denial of the standards we use for all other subjects, and an expression of the same attitude: popular culture is a subject not worth serious attention, whether in an encyclopedia or in the world.
Scholarship in the arts is not primarily "opinion", but analysis based on study of the primary sources, the same fundamental approach used on all other subjects. Sometimes it will be aesthetic opinion, but why is that invalid? So is the opinion of popular critics. if there is "consumer- level" criticism it should be included as well. All responsible opinion on the arts is valid,whether informed by scholarship, love of the art, or both. On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a bit on the fence, but my gut feeling is that an article > principally about a pop-culture subject, should be mainly... pop-ish > (to coin a term). > > We are not an "academic" encyclopedia, we are supposed to be > representative of the entire world, which is why we include our > subjects warts. > > I don't see any reason why this article should *not* mention academic > criticism, keeping in mind that that represents a very tiny minority > view of this subject. The simple fact that it's "academic and > peer-reviewed" does not trump UNDUE. We solely defined that category > for the purposes of RS, not related to UNDUE at all. > > Will Johnson > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
