[WikiEN-l] Re: Wikipedia's provable anti-expertise bias (was How didthis happen (comixpedia??))
Matt Brown
morven at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 01:11:10 UTC 2005
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
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