[WikiEN-l] Trivia/Notability tag?

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

I don't understand this continued war on trivia. Trivia that's OR is a problem
obviously but other forms of trivia aren't problematic unless they are
distracting or the article needs to be cut down in size. Many readers like
Wikipedia articles precisely because of the trivia. Leave well-sourced trivia
alone.

Quoting Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com>:

> Is there/should there be a notability tag?
>
> It seems to me that just because something is true, and verifiable, doesn't
> necessarily make it notable enough to be in an article.
>
> Perhaps the real issue with trivia sections is that most of them are
> unreferenced as to their notability; while they clearly may be factually
> true, unless somebody has noted that they are important then they should be
> removed. Right?
>
> So, taking this to the logical conclusions, perhaps we need a notability
> tag, where somebody has to reference that something is notable, otherwise it
> would be removed. By notable, a minimum criteria would have to be a
> significant 3rd party reference to it.
>
> The nearest thing I can find are the various POV flags, which seem to be
> more divisive and seem to imply the existence of  bias, which doesn't seem
> to be quite the same.
>
> Comments?
>
> --
> -Ian Woollard
>
> We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly
> imperfect world things would be a lot better.
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