[WikiEN-l] dueling templates

[Brock Weller]

I said usable, not complete. But regardless. Its not hard to recover
if someone can fit it in, and if they cant, them it stays hidden like
it should. There's no downside to wiping these sections.

On 9/8/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Brock Weller wrote:
> > Trivia sections are not encyclopedic. We require non-trivial sources,
> > and we shouldnt be one ourselves. If they dont fit elsewhere then they
> > are rightly dropped.
>
> Wikipedia is a work in progress. Often the random bits of information
> that appear in a "trivia" section are things that will _eventually_ fit
> into a better-structured article, but if the article isn't developed
> enough yet they may not fit _right now._
>
> Declaring trivia sections to be "Bad" and deleting them out of hand is
> likely to throw away raw material that would be useful in a more
> finished article.
>
> > You can thank us for the usable encyclopedia
> > later when you figure it out.
>
> Deleting something that's currently incomplete doesn't increase the
> encyclopedia's overall completeness.
>
>


-- 
-Brock