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.
Because we're an encyclopedia. This is like saying "I'm a bit baffled
as
to why including the full text of all of [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s speeches
at the end of his article upsets people so much". (A bit exaggerated of
course, but nevertheless true.) WP:NOT an indiscriminate collection of
information.
John