MarioWiki:Trivia

The Super Mario Wiki provides great quantities of information in all of its articles. Normally, the information must meet some requirements according to the Manual of Style to be correctly placed in the articles. However, some information, apparently out of place, do not meet those requirements and seem they do not belong clearly-defined to the main content of the article, so special sections are created to home these kind of information. These are the Miscellaneous sections and Trivia sections.

Creating Trivias

The Super Mario Wiki allows users to expand articles with all the information they can get and create Trivia sections thereby to add interesting stuff, information that does not fit with the general content or as to move them to a definite section, but in reality this method is discouraged. The reason that users must avoid this is because of the overuse of them by the users, normally containing too cluttered information that actually can be set in any part of the main content (Summary or History sections mostly) or in other cases, actual irrelevant facts that already are told in the other sections or opinions or especulations, which these therefore must be removed. To tell that a Trivia section shows these issues, it's recommended to apply the tag {{trivia}} to indicate other users shouldn't fill up with more information on them and it's needed to find out a convenient place for that information somewhere else within the article.

Creating Miscellaneous Content

Another helpful way to deal with the excess of trivias is creating sections that can contain miscellaneous information.

The miscellaneous content is basically the equivalent of the usual general content that's included in character pages and other elements (character, species, item, places, etc) found in the universe of Mario and company (See also History, MarioWiki:Chronology). This information can be added both the fictional in-universe examples and non-fictional ones; the latter are the games, consoles, series, TV shows, films, real-life people, etc.

The sections commonly used to contain varied information aside of the general content can be:

• Reception and Reviews
• Cultural Impact
• Merchandise and Promotional Products
• Software and Hardware Development
• Real Life People's Personal Lives
• Media Production
• Any other subject like these

If a Trivia section contain much of information regarding some of the aforesaid issues, the information can be gathered to form a new section of this class. However, the section must be lengthy. Another important detail when creating miscellaneous content and its sections is citing the information given. The references must come from professional and reliable sources that reinforces the validity and longevity of such content and, in this way, prevent bias. Not giving a source for the information, will make it questionable and eventually set for deletion.