Thread:MetallicKaiser/@comment-26160153-20160909165645/@comment-4110939-20160911155035

That's really putting the wiki against those who read this stuff at face value, or are otherwise incapable of piecing information together by themselves. They wouldn't be able to figure out these trivial facts, and it's not harmful or detrimental to us, the people who write them in, to just have it out there anyway. At most, the trivia would appear redundant, because we look at it and think "Yeah I gathered that from the article", but not everyone comes to that conclusion on a once- or twice-through; Most people don't read a whole wiki article more than once, unless they need a refresher.

Trivia in itself is information meant to augment a subject's effect. If those who believe that it has no reason to be there remove it for the sake of "we don't need this information because it already exists somewhere else; Go find it and use your own brains," then why does a wiki exist? We read trivia when we want answers to questions we didn't ask, and that sort of makes trivia 'pointless observations' anyway.

Trivia is special in articles, in that it isn't necessary for an article in the first place. Statements made within trivia are different that those made within "appearance", "personality", "story", "gameplay", etc. This applies to objects as well. In the sense that all information on the wiki is a synthesis of information, a lot of it is from itself, which would make the information a synthesis of informations presented in the articles already existing on the wiki. That fact would greatly narrow down what we could put in trivia sections if we applied the same rules. We have the same information and even sentences on multiple articles because it's all relevant to each individual subject, right?