Pomepedia

So, my nephew’s band, The Pomegranates, has a entry in Wikipedia, the online user-generated encyclopedia of everything. (Here it is) I guess that means they’ve made it, on some level. It used to be that if you googled yourself and found yourself, you pretty much made it. Now, in this age of information, it’s probably Wikipedia.

It used to be that google was a noun, too. But that’s another story.

Sure, one of the band’s members, or the band’s label, created the citation, but still, it’s there. For any high schooler to try and use in a research paper. But don’t even THINK about using it in college. No way. Wikipedia is the devil.

Maybe.

But it IS a good place to start if you’re looking into something. I would bet that deep down, most professors who openly deride Wikipedia have used it at one time or another. Just to get a sense of things. It’s a starting point. You wouldn’t use it as a prime source for research, but it could point you to some prime sources for research

If we could put it in a hierarchy, here’s how I see it:

1. Primary Sources – what you should use


2. Secondary Sources – what you can use to point you to primary sources


3. Wikipedia – what you can use to point you to secondary sources

In this day and age, we need to use as many tools as possible to make sense of the world. To not is to fall behind.

Anyway, here’s a video of the Poms. My nephew plays the bass. He's not that good of a dancer, but I'm proud of him.

Pomegranates on Lujo Records.