Talk:Soap opera
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How is this a B-class article? Many sections contain no references at all. We have assertions for various series' popularity without citing any ratings. We mention regional differences in the genre and its formats, without citing any reliable sources. This seems to be original research, and likely reflects the POV of Wikipedia's editors. Dimadick (talk) 05:04, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
Longest opera is not Guiding Light anymore
Not all dictionaries say that for something to be properly called a "soap opera", it has to be long-running, according to how the term is commonly understood.
I happen to have the second edition of the Oxford English dictionary, which is considered an English-language authority by some. It doesn't say that for something to be correctly labelled as a "soap opera", it has be long-running. I do know that many English-language dictionaries are descriptivist, but I think that this Wikipedia article should at least mention this nuance, as per its Neutral Point of View policy.
In all the billingual English-Portuguese dictionaries in which I looked that up, the translation given for the term "soap opera" is "telenovela" or simply "novela". That is true even for some billingual dictionaries which I consider high-quality such as the Cambridge English-Portuguese Dictionary. Semantism2 (talk) 22:57, 31 October 2024 (UTC)