Forum:Regarding trivia sections

This has been something on my mind after someone else brought it up to me. Many of our trivia sections have some elements in them that aren't trivial for one of two reasons. The first reason is some of the facts are just a bit pointless, the trivialness of a point can be so low it feels uneeded, such as letting someone know that X is the 5th time something has happened. And expanded on that fact, when something is the first to happen in a game, it could be seen more as a new feature than a trivial point, an example being "The M8A1 is the first weapon in the Call of Duty series to fire four-round bursts", while an interesting fact, it could well have been mentioned during the weapon description. Furthermore, a trivia point on the Point of Contact page states "The time in Point of Contact is simply shown as July 24, 9:15:16." which we do not need since we already have it in the date section of the infobox. On the flip side, we also seem to be using points in the trivia that are untrivial due to the fact they're quite important details, that should be found in the main article itself, and not as a trivial point. An example of this would be "The M8A1 naturally fires fully automatic in Single Player, despite it being a natural four-round burst in Multiplayer", this seems more like a main feature of the weapon, and should be mentioned (if not already) within the main parts of the article, it's not something that's trivial. To sum up, I feel that we need to comb though much of our trivia and start weeding out the trivial elements from the parts we don't need to mention, and the parts we should incorporate into the main body of the article itself. Trivia section should only be for trivial information that has no place anywhere else on the article. 00:37, February 4, 2014 (UTC)