SmashWiki talk:Trivia

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Pass It's a great, striaghtforward policy. I see no reason to NOT pass it.L33t Silvie I see wat u did thar... 22:57, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Pass with caveat. Looks like it'll work good. However, there may need to be a specification on how long is "too long". Toomai Glittershine ??? {{subst:#switch:{{subst:#expr:{{subst:#time:U}} mod 68}} |0=The Altruistic |1=The Aurum |2=The Awesome |3=Da Bess |4=The Bold |5=Da Bomb |6=The Boss |7=The Brass |8=The Brazen |9=The Breegull |10=The Celeritous |11=The Chilled |12=The Chronicler |13=The Cloronic |14=The Different |15=The Dispenser |16=The Eggster |17=The Emissary |18=The Engineer |19=The Free |20=The Frivolous |21=The Ghostbuster |22=The Glow |23=The Golden |24=Le Grand Fromage |25=The Hammer |26=The Honcho |27=The Incomperable |28=The Incomprehensible |29=The Inconceivable |30=The Indescribable |31=The Interspacial |32=The Irrepressible |33=The Jiggy |34=The Keymaster |35=The Labbie |36=The Loony |37=The Metroid |38=The Multifaceted |39=The Non-Toxic |40=The Obfuscating |41=The Orchestral |42=The Pan-Galactic |43=El Pollo |44=The Polychromatic |45=The Prismatic |46=The Producer |47=The Quiet |48=The Quintonic |49=The Rainbow |50=The Researcher |51=The Resolute |52=The Riotous |53=The Sharp |54=The SMASH-GINEER |55=The Spark |56=The Spectrum |57=The Sphere |58=The Steppin' |59=The Superlative |60=The Trumpeteer |61=The Undirigible |62=The Victorious |63=The Wacko |64=The Xanthic |65=The Yellow |66=The Yoshi |67=The Zesty |}} cntrbs 23:03, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm the author, what do you think?

@Toomai: I'm wary of arbitrarily setting a maximum length, is all. Miles (talk) 03:10, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Pass This should help with stupid irrelavent trivia being added to articles. Y462 (TCE ) 03:18, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

I think if the trivia section takes up a set fraction of the page, it can be deemed to be "too long" (i.e. no trivia section could constitute more than a third (for example) of the article). That would avoid "arbitrarily setting a maximum length" and would make each article's maximum trivia section length proportional to the article's length. It would also encourage people to remove related items of trivia from the list and combine them into a new paragraph on a new subject, and paragraphs look better than really long lists. Even if the wording of the policy isn't made to be more specific, it's so much common sense that I say pass anyway. PenguinofDeath 05:52, 2 June 2009 (UTC)