Talk:Shelton, Nebraska

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"On the Road"[edit]

I've removed a single-sentence IPC section: 'Shelton is mentioned multiple times in Jack Karouac's book "On The Road".' Diff is here.

The full, searchable text of OTR is at [1]. Kerouac's stop in Shelton lasts for about one page, much of it dialogue, with very little description of the place; there are two passing mentions of Shelton later in the book. Per MOS:POPCULT, "Media coverage of a topic is generally encyclopedic information, helps establish the topic's notability, and helps readers understand the subject's influence on the public (and often vice versa). Unfortunately, these sections are frequently just lists of appearances and mentions, many of them unencyclopedically trivial." The coverage of Shelton seems to fit the second sentence: there's no indication that Shelton played a major role in the book.

At MOS:POPCULT, there's a pointer to an essay that includes WP:IPCV, which states "In determining whether a reference is encyclopedic, one helpful test can be to look at whether a person who is familiar with the topic only through the reference in question has the potential to learn something meaningful about the topic from that work alone. For example, if a movie or a television series has been filmed in a town, the viewer is seeing a concrete representation of what the town actually looks like at street level; but if the town is merely mentioned in a single line of dialogue, the viewer hasn't learned anything except that the place exists." Kerouac's description of Shelton strikes me as too sparse and generic to convey any real information about the place.

WP:IPCV also suggests that "passing mentions of the subject in books, television or film dialogue, or song lyrics should be included only when that mention's significance is itself demonstrated with secondary sources". A Google search for ("on the road" shelton nebraska) turns up quotes from OTR, but I don't find any secondary sources discussing the significance of Shelton to the work. I think that before the passage can be restored, it behooves the restoring editor to find such secondary sources and cite them. — Ammodramus (talk) 13:32, 14 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Page Nazi[edit]

Hey, whatever. The town of Sheldon Iowa had had the note erroneously on their wiki page for almost ten years and even though it was in error, no one there felt the need to be a prick about keeping it off the page. I took it off their page and added it to this one. On The Road was an extremely culturally significant book and I thought the people of your small town might be interested in knowing that their town was a part of it. Have fun lording over this page like some kind of information nazi, pal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.22.197.224 (talk) 17:29, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]