[WikiEN-l] "Trivia" sections in articles

[Ray Saintonge]

Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:

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>>>Ray Saintonge wrote:
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>>>>Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
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>>>>>They look ugly and unprofessional. 
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>>>>Have you forgotten that most of us are not being paid to edit?  That 
>>>>makes looking unprofessional quite natural. :-)
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>>>So, you're suggesting we should leave the vandalism *in* because we're
>>>not being paid to remove it?
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>>Vandalism??  Please review the subject line; it's about trivia.   Your 
>>reference to vandalism is a non-sequitur.
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>Vandalism is ugly and unprofessional, and we're not being paid to edit,
>but we fix it anyway. Why should "Trivia" sections in articles be any
>different?
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Because trivia are not vandalism; they are just interesting and curious 
bits of data about the subject.  They give a lighter tone to the entire 
article.  They are also just as subject to verifiability criteria as any 
other data.

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