Matthew on 12/12/2006 at 14:09
I've suddenly remembered why I only use the Wiki for comics articles.
Kolya on 12/12/2006 at 15:28
Quote Posted by Avoid Trivia sections
Whenever you see a "trivia section", take a look at each fact and consider how you might integrate it into the larger text
How does that translate to: "Delete all trivia"?
A rather dratic measure if you ask me...
Drat on 12/12/2006 at 16:00
It's says avoid them, not annihilate them on sight. If I subscribed to that idea I wouldn't have bothered debating the worth of various items. I'd have simply deleted the sections wholesale.
Silkworm on 19/12/2006 at 15:18
Of course, bullet lists of unimportant, indiscriminante trivia are EXCACTLY what people EXPECT to see in the "trivia" secion of ANY article - the Wikipedia rules even say so. Thats excactly what "trivia" is - miscellaneous, indiscriminate etc.
Look up anything on imdb, or any other wiki article on a video game and you'll see trivia lists. The Wikipedia rules are not an end unto themselves.
ZylonBane on 19/12/2006 at 15:40
I just realized that the "Happy Noodle" restaurant at the start of the game is a reference to Jhonen Vasquez's (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_the_Homicidal_Maniac#Happy_Noodle_Boy) Happy Noodle Boy. There's even an image of Happy Noodle Boy tucked away somewhere on the SS2 game disk.
Drat, however, would likely consider this ORIGINAL RESEARCH OH TEH NOES! if I tried adding it to the SS2 article.
Bluegrime on 19/12/2006 at 17:50
Psh. Drat may be a tad rule lawyer, but theres worse people. (Amaninblack comes to mind.)
DaBeast on 21/12/2006 at 02:49
What?
Someone being overly pedantic about something most wouldn't give a thought to?
NEVAR!.
Mr.WaeseL on 21/12/2006 at 04:23
Quote Posted by Ultraviolet
Wikipedia: Where every pokemon has its very own page...I came across this quote about wikipedia recently, and it is just so
true:
"The only important information to be garnered from the entirety of the wikipedia user pages it that "Asperger's Syndrome" is apparently internetese for "I am a lonely asocial screwup who's terrified of talking to girls so I'm going to self-diagnose myself, despite the fact that I'm thirteen, with a disorder that some geniuses had and pretend that this somehow makes me a genius by association. Also I am fat""
