Forum:Trivia

Well I've decided this issue needs to be resolved once and for all. I'm working on a list of things that we can and can't note. In particular we're getting a bit of "fanism" slipping in. Some current issues to resolve:


 * 1) A note of when a character does something the first time, is also a trivia note. But after that when do we stop, at character no. 132nd to do the same thing? Doing it once is worth mentioning, a second time you reword it to "one of only two", but after that...? I'm thinking "Will of D." introductions here. We've got 8, time to cut their numerical orders off the page, save Roger who was the first to be seen and Luffy who was the first to be named.
 * 2) Noting very minor details. Things that AREN'T even worth mentioning. Like this character is "ate a peanut" but not that bad.
 * 3) Baseless or observational trivia. Noting for instance Buggy and Luffy's devil fruits are "opposites" is such a thing. The problem I have with these is they are the most scrappy trivias you can add. Theres a difference between noting Chopper's similarities to a certain red-nosed reindeer and an all "Oh he wears goggles like..." if you know what I mean. This is what killed a lot of those observational similarities with Frank and Ace Venturer and Pop-eye early in the wikias life. I've allowed a few on myself, but its time to crack down on some of this.

I'll add the other problems when I find them. But a trivia section starts bringing up attention to itself as getting out of hand when it leaps to about 8-10 notes. And a number of articles are headed there. If there is that much trivia, we must remove some of it elsewhere to the page, create new sections for instance. Trivia with a large chunk of text SHOULD be in the article, as its hardly a "note" of trivia fact and more details reference.

I hope everyone understands what I'm getting at with some of this... One-Winged Hawk 23:00, February 15, 2010 (UTC)