On 07/07/07, Rob gamaliel8@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/7/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
One of my old favorites is up for deletion right now, for the fourth time, and looks likely to go the way of the dodo this time around. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Prime_%28person%29. Just in time for the release of the new Transformers movie, too.
It was heavily referenced, non-controversial, and a fun little piece of trivia. I really don't understand why some editors feel the need to get rid of such stuff. There are days that Wikipedia makes me depressed.
Why can't it be heavily referenced, non-controversial, fun little piece of trivia in the article for the character? Why do we need an article just for him or for every fun little piece of trivia someone comes across?
Trivia is by definition... trivial. Do we want a trivial encyclopedia? I would say not.
You can imagine information like a web, with connections between pieces of information. In this case the web only connects to Optimus Prime, the toy so it's sort of like a dead end in terms of the connections; because the person probably isn't otherwise notable. I could understand if it was in the Optimus Prime article, but even then it's still essentially trivia.
I think we mostly want an encyclopaedia with articles with lots of connections between things; something that is fairly cut-off like this is probably not notable.