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===Trivia cleanup=== |
===Trivia cleanup=== |
Revision as of 18:31, 11 April 2008
This WikiProject aims to preserve "Trivia" and "In popular culture"-type information in Wikipedia in a manner that does not compromise Wikipedia's core principles or its quality.
Principles
- Information is information. "Trivia", "In popular culture", and similar sections are often excised from Wikipedia. "In popular culture" articles are deleted even more routinely. We feel this is a case of a vocal minority overriding the interests of a scattered majority. The prevalence of such sections demonstrates a broad interest in having such information on Wikipedia.
- We uphold Wikipedia's core content policies. All material in Wikipedia, "trivial" or not, must be verifiable, neutral, and well-organized. Note that there is no overarching policy on how Wikipedia must be organized -- this is an organic principle, brought about by the collective effort of many thousands of Wikipedia editors.
Goals
We seek to:
- Preserve compliant content. If material is verifiable, neutral, and well-organized, we feel deleting it is an inappropriate act -- an expression of personal distaste not in keeping with the goal of creating the world's best encyclopedia.
- Make articles more compliant with core content policies. If you come across information that is unlikely to be verifiable, delete it. If you see a fact could be moved to a more relevant section of an article (or a more relevant article), integrate it. If you come across a large and disorganized "Trivia" or "In popular culture" list, sort and subcategorize its entries, if possible. If you can find sources for any trivia or pop-culture information (including primary sources, with some restrictions), add a citation to the information listing its source. Work of this sort can be done via a related project, WikiProject Trivia Cleanup.
- Work with others to forge sustainable "trivia" and "pop culture" policies. We agree with other editors that Wikipedia's coverage of "trivia" and "pop culture" interrelations should not distract from our basic coverage of any given subject. However, it is not desirable to restrict our coverage to "basic information"; any information that is compliant with core policies and well-organized improves the value of Wikipedia overall. We hope to establish a manner of organizing and presenting this content that is acceptable to the broad community of editors.
- Continue to explore alternative ways of dealing with material. We recognize that the particular structure of WP at the present has changed and will change further. The core principles are not negotiable, but the interpretation is. Policy is what Wikipedians make of it. Guidelines are flexible and changeable. Rules are to be adjusted to accomplish common goals — IAR is not a routine necessity, but a way of handling exceptions.
Scope
This project is devoted to working on "trivia" sections of articles, the information contained in such sections, and all articles dealing with specific subjects and references to them in popular culture. The articles of the latter kind should all be contained in Category:In popular culture or one of its subcategories. The articles of the former kind, so long as they have such trivia sections, should all be included in the Category:Articles with trivia sections.
Active tasks
General summary of trivia and popular culture on Wikipedia
See the quick summary about trivia on this project's subpage.
Article improvement
This project deals with, among other things, articles related to specific subjects relative to popular culture. Most of these articles should be in the Category:In popular culture or one of its subcategories. List "In popular culture" and similar articles here that need improvement (sourcing, better organization, introductory context, etc.):
- Satan in popular culture
- Orangutans in popular culture
- Nuclear weapons in popular culture
- Augustus in popular culture
- Pirates in popular culture
- Climate change in popular culture
- Adaptations of the Epic of Gilgamesh
- Paradise Lost in popular culture
- Illuminati in popular culture
- Cthulhu in popular culture
- Claudius in popular culture
- Cultural influence of Star Trek - It's done in a much less list-y format and avoids the "in popular culture" title but it is similar content, it has some references but they probably need to be in-line citations to see how much is sourced and unsourced, I'm sure a lot more sourced info could be found. Could be a good place to start working.
Articles facing deletion
Please list ongoing debates here. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Popular culture for past debates.
Trivia cleanup
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Trivia Cleanup and Category:Articles with trivia sections.
Information salvage
List now-deleted trivia and popular culture sections here that could have been sourced, organized, and integrated more in compliance with Wikipedia:Trivia sections. Try not to start battles over "trivia" in these articles; just improve their content in ways that hopefully can be considered uncontroversial.
- One flew over the cuckoos nest trivia
- The Big Lebowski trivia
- The Big Lebowski IPC
- Rivers Cuomo trivia
Darmok trivia sectionMost of this stuff was speculation, but I re-added and sourced some "guest stars" info.--Father Goose- The Man
Members
- Father Goose 22:50, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
- NickPenguin(contribs) 23:58, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
- Ned Scott 00:26, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
- DGG (talk) 00:56, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
- Le Grand Roi des CitrouillesTally-ho! 01:34, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
- ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 03:01, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
- Think outside the box 10:24, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
- Ozmaweezer 12:33, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
- John Carter 17:21, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
- MattHucke(t) 15:21, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
- Law Lord 23:40, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
- Captain Impulse 02:18, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
- Stardust8212 15:58, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
- Moheroy 09:26, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
- --Alien joe 00:29, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
- Aditya(talk • contribs) 10:25, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
- Pomte 11:48, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
- Doc Rocktopus
- ErgoSum88 (talk) 06:49, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
- Joshuarooney (talk) 11:47, 11 March 2008
Userbox
These are userboxen showing your support for Project Trivia/Pop Culture. Feel free to make and add your own creations.
Copy and paste into your userpage:{{User:ErgoSum88/trivia}}
This user likes "Trivia" and "In popular culture" information, and supports their inclusion. |