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Hello.
Even today, Bulbapedia seems to have absolutely no policy on what is and isn't trivia. This has been a huge problem, going as far back as 2010 and Bulbapedia has become quite infamous for it in the pokemon fandom. Currently, it seems that it depends on which wiki admin is right now awake whether a trivia stays or is deleted. I speak from personal experience, when I tried to remove this particularly eye-rolling "trivia":
"Alpha Sapphire has the longest name using fourteen characters including spaces."
This incredibly interesting trivia was on the "Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire" article. I noticed and removed it as useless back in August and not a single editor or admin complained about my edit, and the article continued to be edited many more times after me, so I assumed my removal of it was correct.
Today, I checked the article for "Gen VI" and noticed that the exact same letter-counting 'trivia' was in there. I was baffled that this was apparently so interesting and fascinating, that it had to be not just on one, but two articles. I tried to remove it here too, only for it to get reverted right back, in direct contradiction to what happened back in August.
I got told from a junior admin that "all trivia is inherently useless" therefore it's apparently OK to add even the most cringy and useless trivia one can think of. I was also told that only "4chan trolls or other affiliated groups" complain about crappy trivia, and was indirectly accused of being one. And finally, the junior admin crawled through my contributions and also restored the trivia I removed 5 months ago in the ORAS article, despite my removal being completely uncontroversial back then.
So yeah, I would think that perhaps it would be a good idea to finally create some proper policy on trivia (it was already late back in 2010), because right now it's pretty much impossible to edit that section on articles, as any criticism of particular "trivia" is reverted as "trolling", and even this is done extremely inconsistently (depending on which admin is right now refreshing the recent changes page).
Even today, Bulbapedia seems to have absolutely no policy on what is and isn't trivia. This has been a huge problem, going as far back as 2010 and Bulbapedia has become quite infamous for it in the pokemon fandom. Currently, it seems that it depends on which wiki admin is right now awake whether a trivia stays or is deleted. I speak from personal experience, when I tried to remove this particularly eye-rolling "trivia":
"Alpha Sapphire has the longest name using fourteen characters including spaces."
This incredibly interesting trivia was on the "Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire" article. I noticed and removed it as useless back in August and not a single editor or admin complained about my edit, and the article continued to be edited many more times after me, so I assumed my removal of it was correct.
Today, I checked the article for "Gen VI" and noticed that the exact same letter-counting 'trivia' was in there. I was baffled that this was apparently so interesting and fascinating, that it had to be not just on one, but two articles. I tried to remove it here too, only for it to get reverted right back, in direct contradiction to what happened back in August.
I got told from a junior admin that "all trivia is inherently useless" therefore it's apparently OK to add even the most cringy and useless trivia one can think of. I was also told that only "4chan trolls or other affiliated groups" complain about crappy trivia, and was indirectly accused of being one. And finally, the junior admin crawled through my contributions and also restored the trivia I removed 5 months ago in the ORAS article, despite my removal being completely uncontroversial back then.
So yeah, I would think that perhaps it would be a good idea to finally create some proper policy on trivia (it was already late back in 2010), because right now it's pretty much impossible to edit that section on articles, as any criticism of particular "trivia" is reverted as "trolling", and even this is done extremely inconsistently (depending on which admin is right now refreshing the recent changes page).
