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Writing about mythology and folklore, like writing about religious texts, presents some unique challenges to the Wikipedian. Mythology, folklore, and other traditions are not generally standardized, and numerous variations can make summarization challenging. Political and nationalist hijacking of ethnic and national traditions can make NPOV challenging. The thousands upon thousands of poor-quality pop "non-fiction" sources about mythology, especially more "popular" European mythologies, make sifting out the crap challenging, and the ubiquity of these sources on Wikipedia necessitate full rewrites for a lot of articles.