[WikiEN-l] Trivia and popular culture sections

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:24:37 -0500, you wrote:

>People should be *VERY HESITANT* about removing information that
>others have added. Editing for style, content, readability, utility,
>grammar, flow, etc. are all critical but taking knowledge out of
>Wikipedia just because you find it uninteresting or unimportant is
>arrogant, rude, and destructive to the project.

I hope that CyclePat *never* reads this :-)

Of course we should think carefully before removing stuff other people
care about, but when the trivia starts to overwhelm the encyclopaedic
content, or individual trivial items start to outweigh individual
significant items, or when a particular regional perspective comes to
overwhelm the perspective of another region which may be more relevant
or significant, it's time to think long and hard about what the
article say *as a whole*.
Guy (JzG)
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