Question about slime mold page edit

Hello Singing LCD -

First: an apology. Sometimes when trying to revert the work of sociopathic 14-year-olds, we revert something that shouldn't be reverted.

It is my personal belief that Wikipedia gives too much emphasis to popular culture; that appears to be a lonely position, so I don't push it, or edit on that basis (not much, anyway). While IANAM (I am not a mycologist), slime molds are very cool organisms that have been around for millions of years, so I'm predisposed to look askance at popular culture references to such things embedded in an encyclopedia article. Hence my hasty edit to something that looked seriously out of place in an article on biology.

An analogy would be the incorporation of a paragraph devoted to chess in "King" or "Queen" - it's not that it's totally irrelevant, but does it really belong there? (I checked, and it's not there).

I think there ought to be a daughter page devoted to Slime Mo(u)ld in Popular Culture (or Food Items in NetHack), and that references to D&D, graphic novels and Philip K. Dick should be somewhere else, but I'm not presumptuous enough to strike such things from articles.

Rmasbury 17:06, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]