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Your draft article, Draft:This Year


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Xkcd and the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
(I apologize. I let this message get really long. Tldr Should The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald even have an “In Popular Culture Section” to begin with?)

Vigilantcosmicpenguin, Thank you for your edits on The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Most of them were reasonable and significantly streamlined the article.

However, I have mixed feelings on the removal of Xkcd from the “In Popular Culture” section. For one, the reference not removed was rather obscure - when I search for the parody, there are few secondary sources on it. In fact, the album it is one does not have a page on the wiki. Additionally, I do not totally agree with your appraisal of Xkcd as obscure - there are many secondary sources on it, and Wikipedia itself has multiple articles covering it.

However, I somewhat agree with your removal of Xkcd on different grounds. Due to the vast subject matter of the web comic, its frequent direct mention of Wikipedia, and its shared computer-literate audience with many amateur Wikipedia editors (including myself), it can cause problems with article quality (see Xkcd in popular culture for a more in-depth explanation of the problem and why I might agree with your removal).

At the same time, the article’s “In Popular Culture” section is very short. This leaves me with two possible conclusions for what would result in the best article.

The first would be to return the Xkcd mention. I feel that due to the short “In Popular Culture” section and the overall relatively brief length of the article, returning the reference would not hurt the article. If this were another article (of which plenty of examples are provided in that article I linked), I would say no, but in this case, the song itself is a part of popular culture and has few other examples, running little risk of an “In Popular Culture Section” getting too long and making the article convoluted.

The second, and perhaps more reasonable solution, is to wonder whether the article even needs an “In Popular Culture Section” in the first place. The other reference is very obscure, and from what I can tell, most other articles on major (a.k.a #1 charting or otherwise notable) singles (e.g Dancing Queen, Indiana Wants Me) even have this section or anything similar except for very good reasons; the closest I can find is the “Legacy” section in Never Gonna Give You Up, which itself is just a brief overview of Rickrolling that links to the dedicated article. As much as I love Xkcd personally and would love to have both references, I’m not sure there’s a reason for the article on “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” to have an “In Popular Culture” section at all.

Anyhow, thank you for your time. I apologize for this long-winded message. I just felt I should err on the side of etiquette and discuss this with you, as I didn’t feel it would be right for me to romp straight over your edits without a word.

Have a wonderful evening.

Respectfully, Dexcube Dexcube (talk) 01:45, 14 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Yes, I think you're right that the song parody isn't notable. If I were you, I would go ahead and WP:BOLDly remove that from the article. When I was editing the article, I didn't check the source for that claim; I just saw The Washington Post (clearly reliable) and didn't bother looking any further. Now that I read the article, I see that it barely even mentions the song, so it's definitely not relevant to the article.
 * As for the XKCD comic, I think it was clearly not notable because there was no secondary source cited. It fails WP:IPCV—any "in popular culture" information should be verified by a source that establishes notability. (Which also applies to the song parody, in this case, because it was only mentioned in passing.)
 * And don't worry about the long message. I'm also prone to writing way too much sometimes. Though I would suggest discussing this on the article's talk page rather than mine, for future reference.
 * — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 02:39, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestions and the helpful advice! I'll make sure to take them into consideration in the future. Dexcube (talk) 03:43, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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DYK for Hindu Temple of Wisconsin
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DYK for Yevhen Klopotenko
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DYK for Bill Wurtz
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