[WikiEN-l] Trivia/Notability tag?

[Charlotte Webb]

On 11/24/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Which tag? {{Trivia}} is not a warning for readers, it's a call to
> action to editors. Its message is clear: please improve this article
> by integrating these disorganised dot points. Why would you remove
> such a tag?

Because it continues to encourage mindless blanking of potentially
valid content, rather than the more nuanced approaches of:
1. Removing the items for which no source can be found (this should be
automatic), while leaving the properly referenced "triviums" alone.
2. Finding a more appropriate (perhaps chronological) place to put the
verifiable information, i.e. promoting it to a greater expository
status than "trivia".

It would actually work if people followed the instructions rather than
giggling something about the "trivia" tag being some perverse sort of
"{{sectionprod}}".

—C.W.