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

[Matt Brown]

On 11/15/05, Sam Korn <smoddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Many times, the trivia belongs elsewhere - not deleted.  Though often
some rigorous editing will get such a section reading much better.

-Matt