Talk:Divine Comedy in popular culture

message: There's quite a few references in Zorba the Greek, but their a little criptic even if they do say a lot about the main character. How overt should the references be?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.237.58.235 (talk) 09:39, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zorba the Greek? 

message: What is popular culture? Maybe it has a technical meaning that I don't understand, but I didn't know that T.S. Eliot, Primo Levi, Pope Benedict XVI, and Karl Marx were part of it.--Oxonian2006 (talk) 12:24, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Popular culture often means garbage bin for factoids. Drmies (talk) 22:27, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Popular'' culture? 

message: It's gotta start somehow--cleanup. Entries need to have (secondary) sources and need to be of *some* magnitude. For instance, a line in a song or a metaphor in a book, that's not relevant (such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, "a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived"), since there's thousands of them. An album or a series of poem, that's appropriate (think Sepultura's Dante XXI). "Popular culture" is too often a catch phrase for "anything goes," but it doesn't have to be that way. Your help, esp. in referencing, is appreciated! Drmies (talk) 02:19, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that a cleanup is in order, but we should reach a consensus about the way to do it. I for one am of the opinion that even a mention consisting of a single line or sentence is relevant, if 1) we are certain that it refers to Dante (so: no mere mentions of "hell", "inferno", "damned" and the like), and 2) the work or the author mentioning Dante is notable in him/her/itself. I am the responsible for the addition of four or five items, ranging from whole works by Longfellow to a single sentence fron Stephen King, because I believe that in order to get a picture as clear as possible of the Dante's influence in the artists after him, it is useful and necessary to take all references in account. Per "Wikipedia is not paper", it is not the sheer bulk of the reference we should include that should keep us from including them, if they are relevant (in the sense of the two points above). Then again, this is my personal opinion, and I hope more editors will give theirs. Goochelaar (talk) 15:17, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey Goochelaar, I started on cleaning up. No one has jumped in yet. The lists are not in chronological order and I got to work on that, I've removed some all-too trivial mentions, and cut down individual entries (basically removed praise and extraneous detail). Feel free to help out, esp. with the sourcing. Also, feel free to add Italian or other references--I don't have easy access to or knowledge of that field, which must be huge. Drmies (talk) 17:16, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  cleanup 

message: I would like to ask all new contributors to a. include their entries chronologically; b. check to see if you're not duplicating information; c. include a secondary reference to avoid the WP:OR charge--unreferenced material may be challenged and/or removed. What we have right now is a list, two-thirds of which is totally unreferenced, and that's not good in an encyclopedia. Thank you all for your help--in avoiding the charge of WP:Listcruft, and in preempting deletion. Drmies (talk) 05:35, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: New contributions

message: The video game Grim Fandango even though is reference to the Aztec myth, is it possible that game has references to this? Like the land of the dead and the other worlds below it and such? --Victory93 (talk) 05:14, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grim Fandango? 

message: In the game there's a follower named Virgil who guides you through the game. There's also a follower using the same type of magic as Virgil who is named Dante.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.72.188.152 (talk) 13:08, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura 

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