Forum:Trivia guidelines

Something I'd like to see clarified is a standard in the content that goes into Trivia sections. At the moment, it seems that users are content to throw every random bit of information into the trivia section. However, it's rapidly congesting along the same lines of Wikipedia, to the extent that some articles have more trivia than the actual article.

I've noticed a couple of associated problems:
 * Trivia often repeats information that is already found in the article.
 * Trivia contains information that should be in the main article.
 * Observations have a tendency to be assumptions or conjectures that have very little relevance to the article.

The Manual of Style does not specify anything about trivia sections. I would like to hear opinions on the content of trivia sections and their tendency to become bloated and less interesting. In particular, I'm interested in hearing people's thoughts in actively merging non-trivial information into the main article for more comprehensive reading experiences. --Scottie theNerd 07:17, December 6, 2009 (UTC)