On 11/24/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@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.