Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kolkata trivia

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was no consensus. Mackensen (talk) 14:59, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kolkata trivia

I have nominated this article because of the use of the word "trivia", which is defined by wiktionary as insignificant trifles of little importance, especially items of unimportant information. This puts the article in direct conflict with my understanding of the following Wikipedia guidelines:

1. Articles title assumes that the information therin is trivial, violating NPOV
2. If we are to assume that the articles information is indeed trivial then it is violating Imporance.
3. Finally being that a trivia list is inherintly a list of random facts, this article is in violation of What Wikipedia is not.

Some or all of the information in this artile may be good however, it should be integrated into proper places within established articles. For advice on how this may be accomplished you might want to look at: Wikipedia:Trivia and User:GK/On adding trivia to the main body of an article. The_stuart 17:48, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

• Merge and delete per nom. Caveat lector 18:58, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
• Merge Yanksox 19:55, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
• Merge --Dangerous-Boy 07:00, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
• Merge a tough job, though! In any case, can be deleted. I have kept a copy here with plans to incorporate facts later in other articles. Keep Changed vote after the comments by Hornplease. If there are other trivia pages which are not tagged for deletion, this page should not be an exception. However, the case presented is good. And if the article is deleted, so should be other Trivia articles, all of which come under the perview of the rationale presented by The_stuart. --Dwaipayan (talk) 20:37, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Please scroll down. There is no established policy about this. Several trivia articles have been created if the main article will get too big or too cluttered with the inclusion of the facts. The Calcutta article is difficult to edit, but is expanding at an extraordinary rate. I strongly recommend that we leave this as is, in order to avoid cluttering up the main article. I would be infuriated if the Great Race trivia page was left as is but this was merged back into Calcutta. Hornplease 08:08, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Perhaps another page is needed, however "trivia" has no place within an encyclopedia.--The_stuart 01:48, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.