User blog comment:DocTanner/Discussing Trivia Guidelines/@comment-5035765-20131012191615/@comment-3358335-20131014205457

Saying things "resemble" is too similar to "It may be a reference to. . ." or "It might be. . ." and it becomes irrellevent.

SirAston nailed my original problem on the head. What classifies as Pop Culture? How far can it go. "Indisputable" was used as a hammer. Before my first "Purge" when I went through all champions at the time, pages were littered with:

"This champion resembles X from [obscure source]"


 * "This champion also resembles Y from [secondary obscure source]"


 * "This champion's M ability is most likely something resemblying Z from [least obscure source]"

I mean, it was all over the place. Just walls of text of things that people could relate something to. Reading it I felt not that any particular one was correct or incorrect, chances are that most of them were right. . .in a way. It just lost it's relevence. To say that Riot comes up with all original ideas would have been ridiculous. To say that they even came up with 10% original ideas is probably just as ridiculous. But, in my mind, it doesn't make sense to source each and every possible inspiration for anything. Riot's one original idea is to build a champion using this medley of ideas no matter where they got them, and assigning values and animations to those abilities. So unless it was blatantly obvious (ie indisputable) it was best to just remove these walls of speculative text.