Wikipedia:WikiProject Trivia Cleanup

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This project deals with trivia sections on articles, and cleaning them up. Many articles on Wikipedia have too much trivia, and need to be shortened (or just removed altogether). This project focuses on finding, tagging and cleaning articles with too much trivia. Trivia sections shouldn't always be removed altogether - they may just require shortening, or rewriting and incorporation into the article.

As a note, trivia isn't always just in trivia sections. It can also be found in notes, miscellanea, something about references pop culture and other sections. If it's just a list of random things: it's probably trivia.

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[edit] Goals

  1. Clean up trivia sections that contain inconsequential material.
  2. Integrate useful trivia from sections into the article, then remove the trivia section altogether (when appropriate).

[edit] Current status

The number of articles with trivia sections has grown very large over time - see sections 3,4, and 9 of this page's talk page for background and several proposed solutions. In June 2007, the trivia template was modified to be broken down by month of tagging, and the template should be automatically tracked by bot going forward.

[edit] Members

Feel free to add your name to the bottom of this list.

  1. RobJ1981
  2. --Nishkid64 23:54, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
  3. Zepheus <ツィフィアス> 05:37, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
  4. Mackensen (talk) 18:37, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
  5. l0b0t
  6. Recury
  7. Dragosian
  8. ReviewDude
  9. Ejvyas
  10. Icseaturtles
  11. The Way
  12. Whispering
  13. Pax:Vobiscum
  14. Willie the Walrein
  15. Malach
  16. Seong0980
  17. SusannaSusie
  18. CheeseChive
  19. Ckessler
  20. ˉˉanetode╦╩ 00:26, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
  21. SkierRMH
  22. bulletproof 3:16
  23. Bwithh
  24. KLT2007
  25. Madjohnflint
  26. SUIT
  27. Sofeil
  28. Walterk29
  29. Yonatanh
  30. Mangojuicetalk
  31. Maungkaungmyat
  32. Future Fun Jumper (TIC) 11:35, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
  33. Loren
  34. Anna512 (talk)
  35. --DJH47 20:10, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
  36. AW - I've been doing this, didn't know there was a project!
  37. --Paradox CT 00:24, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
  38. --User:Dave1213 20:54, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
  39. Dr bab 10:56, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
  40. Guylikeu 14:41, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
  41. Callum J. Stewart (Callum J. Stewart 14:00, 17 April 2007 (UTC))
  42. Strangepalefighter 00:22, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
  43. SelfStudyBuddy 08:06, April 30 2007 (UTC)
  44. Vikrant Phadkay 11:44, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
  45. Politics rule i love wikipedia 8 May 2007
  46. Nikki311 07:46, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
  47. Android Mouse and my bot Android Mouse Bot 3 18:28, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
  48. Hydrogen Iodide 06:15, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
  49. Myselfalso I'm willing to help wherever I can. --myselfalso 22:46, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
  50. Jim Stewart Yay! Down with trivia sections. James A. Stewart 23:17, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
  51. Gavia immer (talk) 13:39, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
  52. --Trampton 07:15, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
  53. Will (We're flying the flag all over the world) 13:12, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
  54. Tikal-chan (Pls note: I will NOT remove the trivia tag no matter how much trivia points I have intergrated into any article)
  55. A Raider Like Indiana 15:05, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
  56. Sjones23 20:18, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
  57. Pomte 00:27, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
  58. Valusa 06:26, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
  59. Belvyzep 15:00, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
  60. Squalk25 14:30, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
  61. The Menace 12:35, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
  62. David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 17:24, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
  63. Amadscientist
  64. Soyseñorsnibbles
  65. Ipstenu (talk • contribs) 23:21, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
  66. RegainTheTruth
  67. Sebi [talk] 06:18, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
  68. GhostPirate 23:33, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
  69. SteelersFan UK06 05:17, 25 July 2007 (UTC) (talk\contribs)- after HATING this concept for so long, I've realised its actually a pretty good project. count me in.
  70. Soysauce357
  71. Freak104
  72. wpktsfs 23:51, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
  73. TheBilly - 11:13, 11 August, 2007
  74. Famguy3
  75. SilkTork *** SilkyTalk 14:30, 29 August 2007 (UTC) I thought I was already in.
  76. DGG (talk) 19:56, 2 September 2007 (UTC) a good idea, if done appropriately. Will need some changes to meet that standard.
  77. NickPenguin 21:08, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
  78. Gary2863
  79. Ta bu shi da yu
  80. *Vendetta* (whois talk edits) 18:07, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
  81. DanielCD We need some reform in this area to keep articles from becoming link + list farms.
  82. TJ Reyes
  83. Johnred32 I'll get right to work!
  84. TheNextOneAcross I'm determined to fix all such problems!
  85. Mastrchf91
  86. Doc Rocktopus
  87. Kalindoscopy
  88. Basketball110 21:15, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
  89. JackAgain 00:08, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
  90. Velvetron
  91. User:Triona
  92. Found Missing (talk) 02:32, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
  93. User:Jh553738
  94. IwilledituTalk :)Contributions 03:50, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
  95. CattleGirl
  96. TheGoodLocust (talk) 19:11, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tagging and improving articles

When you see an article with too much trivia, please tag it with this tag: {{trivia}}. You can also help improve categorization by including the current month and year. For example, {{trivia|date=January 2008}}. Any new tags without a datestamp are automatically tagged by bot, beginning in May 2007.

There is also {{fictionrefs}} for articles and sections that contain too many minor or trivial fictional references.

For helpful background on avoiding trivia sections in articles, visit WP:TRIVIA.

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