There are still contraints, but they're contraints of readability and usefulness, not shipping weight.
On 2/24/06, John Lee johnleemk@gawab.com wrote:
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.
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