Talk:Uncanny Valley in popular culture

This article should not be merged with Uncanny valley as it overwhelms that article with copious quantities of uncited, unencyclopaedic triviality. The article was split as to delete the information outright would entail a great wailing and gnashing of teeth. This is the less controversial alternative. If it is wished to be merged, it should be AfDd first. - Francis Tyers · 16:09, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The proper way to deal with "in popular culture" sections is to integrate useful facts into the prose sections of the main article, and be bold and remove unencyclopedic content, as per WP:AVTRIV in the Manual of Style. Moving them to separate articles doesn't cure the problem, it only moves it somewhere else and makes it worse.
 * However, we're not even dealing with a trivia section in this case. This is prose content that demonstrates and elaborates on examples of the "uncanny valley" concept, which by its very definition applies to art, films, etc., and examples such as these directly relate to and are a vital part of the concept. (As opposed to a bulleted list containing the likes of "(obscure band) mentions the Uncanny Valley in their song _____" and "In an episode of Family Guy, Peter Griffin goes to the Uncanny Valley and says 'freakin' sweet!'") WP:TRIVIA has a good explanation of what is and isn't trivia in relation to a topic.
 * Sure, some parts aren't that well-written, it's uncited, there's a few too many examples, etc.; that's why I tagged it for cleanup when I merged it back in. Krimpet (talk/review) 06:58, 15 April 2007 (UTC)