[WikiEN-l] Re: Wikipedia's provable anti-expertise bias (was How didthis happen (comixpedia??))

[Sam Korn]

On 11/15/05, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> If popular culture/Trivia are so important why does [[Hurricane
> Katrina]] (to chose a random example) not include either word?
>
> Lets consdir the situation:
>
> The problem: This article is to big and there is no obvious split
> Solution. Remove stuff while doing the minium posible damage to the article.
>
> That tends to result in the popular culture/trivia section being the
> first to go.

Trivia sections should not exist for their own sake.  If there is no
way to work the facts into the text of the article, it is likely
enough the writer showing off that they knew something or a newbie
thinking this is a fan site.  The details are usually irrelevant (cf.
edit war over mention of Abraham Lincoln in [[Charles Darwin]]), and
it improves the quality of the articles to take them out.

See also: Editor's Barnstar.

Sam