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Silly buggers
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Resolved{{Multiple issues}} now.Here's me finding and fixing all the places where "trivia" has been stacked with other templates... And it's been made special so that it won't stack! Lost for words. Rich Farmbrough, 11:12 25 September 2007 (GMT).
- Note, one of the reasons "trivia" stacks is when an "unref" or "unrefsect" is added to a trivia section, not uncommon. Rich Farmbrough, 11:21 25 September 2007 (GMT).
- Faith No More is the only article where stacking should've occurred. Chernabog (Fantasia) had its trivia tag at the top of the page, which is the wrong placement, so I moved the tag to the trivia section, where there are no other tags. In The Purple Testament, the other tag in the trivia section was {{inappropriate tone}}, which is redundant for a section tagged as trivia, so I removed it.
Useless direction to expected Help-text
edit ResolvedI can read this in this aricle: Editors should not use this template to tag sections they consider trivial. In accordance with Wikipedia:Trivia sections, this template should only be placed at the top of sections that contain indiscriminate and unselective lists. Thanks.
Am I an edtor?
I cannot find the template-name I intend to use. And no suggestion, no link. Let alone the guidelines.
Ãnd ALWAYS links to another semi-like subject, without an answer.
Just delete irrelevant information
edit ResolvedWhy is this template locked? It desperately needs a "and delete all irrelevant information." added to the end of it. Just moving trivia to different sections doesn't solve the problem. DreamGuy (talk) 22:27, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
- There are other templates for that, e.g.
{{Reduce trivia}}, and more topically specific ones listed in the template documentation's "See also" section. This particular template is for reformatting salvageable information into coherent paragraphs that don't present factoids in a list. When the information is just plain irrelevant cruft, yes, it should be removed. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 13:01, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
Edit request
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Could you change the template from this:
 | Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. |
to this:
 | Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into other sections or articles. |
207.6.121.132 (talk) 23:15, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
- I don't think that would be good, because it would look strange in places like Inertial_electrostatic_confinement#Devices. Stickee (talk) 00:49, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
- I enabled this as an option, since "contains trivia" is not a crucial WP:CORE matter, and in "busy" articles it may often be desirable to use the smaller size. This option only works if the template is set to apply to a section, not to the whole article. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 12:59, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
Added parameter "to", for giving section/article name to which to move the relevant content
editSeemed kind of an obvious omission.
|to=a.k.a.|2=Location of page or section to which suggest moving the relevant material, e.g.:|to=#Filmographyor|2=Nocturnal underwater basketweaving#Techniques
— SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 09:41, 7 September 2015 (UTC)