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Here he is gobbing off about "In Popular Culture" sections.....
For a start, look at the prick acting like he's a Wiki God for being prepared to yank out anything without a source. That is, of course, not what policy says he should do. You can only do that for BLP material. In all other cases, you should show respect to your colleagues and the encyclopedia, and either tag it or find a better reason to remove it, if indeed you choose not to even try to make the effort to source it.I hate these sections, but I think we're stuck with them, and probably with the name as well. My way of dealing with overly-long ones (which is most of them) is to first just straight up remove anything without a reference, then go through what's left looking for more minor references, throwaway lines from TV shows, etc and remove those as well. The example I cited in the village pump discussion is my unending struggle to keep Commander Riker out of the article on Valdez, Alaska (T-H-L). It's a perfect example of a throwaway line, he never goes back there, even when they visit Earth, and never really talks about it, it's just a bit of backstory to fill in his personality. Talk:Valdez, Alaska/Archive 1 (T-H-L) shows this goes back at least twelve years, right up to June of this year.
But this is Wikipedia. The editors at the VERY TOP of the self governance structure don't know or don't respect basic policy. And they were ELECTED by the community, so they're also either TOO STUPID to know or even less giving of a shit about basic policy.
It was the Star Trek crap that made me laugh though. Acting as if somehow, if a FICTIONAL CHARACTER in his TV show ever actually visited the Earth settlement he comes from, far in the future nonetheless, that would somehow make it worthy of mention in the Wikipedia article on that city?
That's enough? No requirement, at the VERY LEAST, that someone other than a Wikipedia editor noticed?
Beyond ridiculous.
Over to you Wikipediocracy. Did you even spot these issues, and if so, are you prepared to risk offending your new WIKI FRIEND by pointing them out, as perhaps an example of what is really wrong with Wikipedia? Incompetence at the highest levels.
Am gonna say no, and hell no.
Way to sell out Jake.