Ben Yates wrote:
Wikipedia is not paper -- in a print encyclopedia,
there's a limit on
the total information volume, so any trivia would push out something
more important; here, the contraints are easy navigability,
readability, etc. I'm afraid I'm a bit baffled as to why /additional/
information at the end of an article upsets people so much, as long as
it doesn't make the rest of the article less useful. If you don't
like trivia sections, don't read them.
The problem is not so much the fact that they exist as that the name
"trivia" is meaningless. I mean, if this information is so "trivial",
why bother including it? It should be "miscellaneous information".
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