The exact wording of that template is under discussion there also--one
of the original supporters of it changed his mind upon finding it had
been modified to better reflect the actual policy, not the
hyper-deletionist policy he thought should be the case.
On 9/6/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The problem
isn't with the template itself, but the way it's used.
Somebody (possibly a script or bot) will add the template wherever
they see ==Trivia==, and then somebody else (possibly another script
or bot) will patrol the relevant category and blank the section,
without any attention as to whether the content is related to that of
other sections, or properly referenced, or outright remarkable.
If people/bots are doing that, they should be stopped. Last time I
read the appropriate policy it said to integrate trivia into the rest
of the article, not remove it.
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