SmashWiki:Trivia

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The Trivia Project is a project with the goal of improving the quality of trivia sections of articles throughout SmashWiki.

Trivia Section Concepts

Wikipedia has a tough no-trivia-section policy. SmashWiki allows trivia sections, but it seems that users have a tendency to throw random facts into a trivia section instead of placing it in a more appropriate place within the bulk of the article. The main goal of this project is to explain when it is appropriate for a fact to be in a trivia section, as well as to improve the existing trivia sections over the whole of the wiki.

==Primary Guideline Trivia should only go under a trivia section if it doesn't belong in any other category of data within the article.

What Makes A Good Piece of Trivia

• Noteworthiness. Saying something about a character model? A minor fact about a certain smash or throw? Add it.
• Truth. All trivia must be verified.
• Detail. Make sure the piece of trivia is fully explained and not left unclear.

What Makes A Bad Piece of Trivia - with examples

• Ambiguity. "The laser move can KO on occasion." Which laser move? Blaster? Zero Laser? And what occasion? These need explaining, or else the line should be removed.
• Irrelavance. "Despite moving like a human, Fox has a tail!" and the like should always be removed.
• Opinion. "Falcon Punch is the most epic move ever." Your opinion can be whatever you want it to be, but it doesn't belong in the mainspace of this wiki.
• Falsehoods. "Sonic can be unlocked in Melee, it just hasn't been done yet." Straightforward; if it's not true, take it down.

Other Guidelines

• Trivia must be on the right page. A minor glitch involving, say, Aether, belongs on Aether and not on Ike (SSBB) or Ike. If it's sufficiently noteworthy, it might merit its own page.
• Trivia sections must have more than 1 piece of trivia. Otherwise, just add the single piece of trivia to the end of the article.