[WikiEN-l] Trivia and popular culture sections

[Ray Saintonge]

Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:

>On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 03:40:53 +1100, you wrote:
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>>>My view is that when they wrote "Wikipedia is not an 
>>>indiscriminate collection of information" they had in mind 
>>>keeping the focus on what is actually important, rather than 
>>>running off after red herrings.
>>>      
>>>
>>The keyword is "indiscriminate". "Unimportant" is nowhere merntioned.
>>Organising small but interesting facts into a trivia section, where there
>>are enough to warrant doing so, is hardly indiscriminate.
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>Discrimination has more than one meaning.
>
"Indiscriminate" and "discrimination" do not carry the same connotations.

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