kkslider5552000 wrote:I stopped reading the CNN article when the first sentence compared cosplaying to MARRYING AN ANIME CHARACTER. THERE'S KIND OF A BIG DIFFERENCE THERE YOU MORONS.
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*continues reading*
It uses Wiki as a source for info, tremendous.
A shame as the rest of the article is surprisingly ok.
The author actually didn't
compare the two--they didn't even equate them. Instead, they simply mentioned them in the same sentence in terms of, "If you are passionate enough about a character, you
may either dress up as them
or marry them." Hardly sacrilege or some egregious slant on the entire scene.
They also didn't "use" Wikipedia as a source. Using something as a source and providing a link to a page on Wikipedia to ease readers into facilitating further information if they so wish are two completely different concepts. Hobby and fan sites that are Conan or Kid-centric will hardly be as useful to the general reader of a CNNGo article as would the mainstream-focused Wikipedia article. It's not the ideal source of information for hardcore fans such as mostly everyone here (I'd recommend the DCW one for this demographic), but it's certainly the sort of article you would use to introduce someone completely unfamiliar with the source material to it.
It's a well-written article. Moving on~
