Brock, I've commented from time to time that the intent of at least some of the people who are trying to delete trivia sections and popular culture sections is to remove material on the significance of themes and structure because of their personal view that such information can never possibly be encyclopedic. A good deal of the material in so called trivia sections is of this nature. People have said I'm over-generalizing, that nobody wants to remove it all.
Many trivia section contain some junk as well, but to say that everything in every one of them is worthless--well, I think you have just confirmed what I've been saying. You do want to remove it all.
Personally, I'm there to write an encyclopedia for general use, not just a collection of information for my own private purpose. WP:OWN usually means articles, but you think you own wikipedia. If you want your own wiki, limited to what you wish to have in an encyclopedia, branch WP, and work at a project where you can safely call yourself "we".
On 9/9/07, Rich Holton richholton@gmail.com wrote:
Brock Weller wrote:
All of them from what i've seen. I pointed out several that they fail, you are more them welcome to read the rest of the thread if you desire to participate.
On 9/9/07, Rich Holton richholton@gmail.com wrote:
Brock Weller wrote:
Unencyclopedic crap is cut all the time. If it doesn't meet our goals its dropped, nothing against the contributer, but it doesn't fit. We make subjective judgements all the time, and establish standards to help us decide in the future. Our standards on notability are largely subjective, as are our standards on what are reliable sources. These trivia sections don't meet our content criteria and we've been stripping them for months. Thats a functional consensus there. And it appears far from being the consensus against it that you'd need at this stage of the purge.
*Which* trivia sections don't "meet our content criteria"? All of them? And whose content criteria are you referring to?
-Rich
I have been following the thread, and I don't see how you can possibly make a blanket statement that all trivia sections don't meet "our" criteria. And I notice that you didn't answer who "our" refers to.
-Rich
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