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Please no trivia sections. There's something incredibly embarrassing about having a short article on some fairly important subject, followed by a huge list of e
by TillE 10y ago
Please no trivia sections. There's something incredibly embarrassing about having a short article on some fairly important subject, followed by a huge list of every time that subject was mentioned on any obscure TV show.
Culturally significant references, yes. Trivia? Don't crap up the main article with that sort of thing. An article about Person A should be about Person A; nobody cares about a song they were mentioned in 100 years after they died.
- kstrauser 10y agoThe Oxford English Dictionary (sample: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/80663 http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/80663) weeps. There's a lot of value to some in listing references to a topic.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoThere's a difference between listing three to five examples of a given usage, to demonstrate that it occurs in the wild, and exhaustively cataloging every single time a thing has been mentioned by anyone.
- kstrauser 10y agoCertainly, but what's the cutoff? Maybe that should be a policy ("three to five inbound references are acceptable; more are not") so there's consistency.
- basch 10y agowhy do you care? why cant the information exist, maybe be hidden by default, and shown after clicking an expand button.
- jpalomaki 10y agoEmbarrassing for who? I don't see problem with this kind of extra material if it's clearly marked and can be easily ignored.