Brock Weller wrote:
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.
If it's hidden in the article history, future editors are a lot less likely to find it and insert it more smoothly into the text. And the information becomes unavailable to casual readers in the meantime. That is a _major_ downside.
Dovetailing in with another thread, this dispute is something that "stable versions" could work well to resolve. The trivialess-but-nice-looking version can be marked as the "good" one and the trivia-containing version can be marked as the "work in progress" one. Everyone becomes happy.