Talk:Albert Einstein in popular culture

message: Any reason the Personal Life section should be here instead of the main article? It's not about popular culture at all.
--RDBury (talk) 04:12, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move Personal Life section? 

message: Would the fact Docs dog on Back to the Futures name is Einstein be in here?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.233.103.113 (talk) 23:39, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Back to the Future 

message: Related to the paragraph "Albert Einstein has been the subject of or inspiration for many novels, films and plays..."  The list of references looks strange in this paragraph.  It seems we say "he was also in", "was the subject of", "so and so portrayed" a few times.  Should we remove this paragraph and instead use a chart or bullet list?  Perhaps we can keep the paragraph as a narrative and also add a summary bullet list in another section? Mkrupnic (talk) 13:55, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paragraph vs. Chart/Bullets 

message: I've read several biographies, and they all mention an Einstein mania during the 20s. I wonder why this isn't to be found here or anywhere on Wikipedia. Paradoctor (talk) 10:14, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Einstein mania? 

message: The Nicholas Roeg movie Insignificance should be mentioned. Paradoctor (talk) 09:00, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Insignificance (1985) 

message: The handedness section is currently a mess, with no Reliable Sources for the claim that he was left handed. Two of the sources are to a palmistry website (!), and the third, used as a source for autopsy-based lefthandedness, is at most suggestive rather than definitive. I am open to comments here, but if nothing is suggested, I am going to radically redo that section. --MelanieN (talk) 19:31, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Lacking reliable sources, perhaps it's a good idea to radically dump the section. - DVdm (talk) 22:01, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for agreeing that it's a problem. If I can find some reliable sources I'd rather radically redo it, with factual information on the subject - since there is a widespread belief  that he was left handed. --MelanieN (talk) 00:19, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: There, I rewrote it. I had wondered why it was in this article (Popular Culture), but it appears it does belong here - since the widespread belief in his left-handedness turns out to be a popular myth. --MelanieN (talk) 01:23, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Good job and properly sourced, although I still think that the entire section could be dumped per lack of notability. But then again, i.m.o. that goes for the entire article, being a mere list of insignificant not-even-factoids. But hey... it keeps the main article clean and stable, right? :-) — Cheers - DVdm (talk) 08:44, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I'm tempted to add a sentence to the "early life" section of the main article (with appropriate references), pointing out that the "left handed" and the "poor student who flunked math" traditions are both false. Still thinking about that. What do you think? --MelanieN (talk) 15:36, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: On further thought, I think I will add it. According to Google this is one of the most Frequently Asked Questions about Einstein. Our main article is viewed by thousands of people a day and I can well believe some of them are looking for an answer to the handedness question. Better they should get an answer based on Reliable Sources, rather than just somebody's opinion as they will get at many "answers" type sites. It looks as if the "poor student" myth is adequately addressed at that article already, although it is not explicitly debunked. --MelanieN (talk) 18:55, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a sentence to the main article, and it is now being discussed at Talk:Albert Einstein/Archive 17#Einstein not left-handed. --MelanieN (talk) 17:03, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Handedness section 

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message: I was surprised that the section on depictions of Einstein in music did not mention the song "Einstein a go go" by the British synthpop band Landscape. Vorbee (talk) 21:51, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable omission