Forum:Junk trivia

Is it just me or has the trivia section of the majority of the characters become something of a joke. For example, "Yammy is the only Espada to have been seen visibly changing his rank"... I am sorry what does that suppose to mean exactly? He is the only Espada that changes ranks. Why would anyone else visibly or invisibly change ranks? Or is this just a backhanded way of entering the fan speculation that Ulquiorra in second stage is actually higher then rank 4? Then there are the paragraph long trivia entries! Am I the only one who thinks that trivia shouldn't be more then one, maybe two sentence at best? I strongly feel that the majority of the trivia sections have grown too large, too full of junk to the point that actual trivia of interest is lost in the clutter. Question is, am I the only one who feels this way. Tinni 10:49, October 17, 2009 (UTC)


 * I have to agree you Tinni. Trivia should only be a couple of lines long, otherwise it's too long winded. If it is any longer than that (and if it can't be condensed into 2 lines), then maybe it is long enough to justify its own section or inclusion in an existing section. But I sometimes find that some trivia is bloated with irrelevant info as well - some of them go on about other characters in a way that doesn't add anything worthwhile to the original point.

I would like to ask people's opinion on just what would be classified as worthwhile trivia (aside from length issue and avoiding speculation)? --Yyp 11:41, October 17, 2009 (UTC)

I cleaned up a few of them today but it'd hard because a lot of it I feel is both useless but somehow worth including somewhere in the article and there's not really a better spot for it. Trivia is really hard to classify because by definition it is something that is too trivial, to unimportant to be in the main body of the article. Which leaves it open for fanspec and that sort of thing. BollyW 11:47, October 17, 2009 (UTC)

Well I consider the "theme songs as picked by Kubo" as good trivia. As is, and I notice we don't actually have them, comments Kubo made about a character in interviews. E.g. Kubo has said Matsumoto and Yoruichi is his favourite female characters and he would like to have Matsumoto as a friend because she's someone who is there for her friends. Kubo also revealed that Aizen and Mayuri are is all time favourite characters. These are interesting, to me at least, and add something that you can't get from reading the article. Tinni 12:04, October 17, 2009 (UTC)

Those sound like good things to include in trivia, though if we're including comments made by Kubo in interviews, then I think that the text of, or a link to, the interview in question should be included (either in the references or on the talk page). Random little bits of info from datasheets/databooks etc - like Grimmjow formerly being no.12 - would be relevant too imo. --Yyp 12:25, October 17, 2009 (UTC)


 * Upside of this would be that we would finally have references for the trivia which would stop people from making-up random stuff. Other good trivia include the one about Wonderweiss having unexplained marking on his body - I added the references to that trivia myself and it was one of those "hey that's interesting!" sort of trivia, especially since thanks to the references you can go back and have a look at the markings yourself and decide if they mean anything or not. I am also glad we kept that "Fura used to be known as superchunky" trivia because fans do still use "superchunky" and so that's helpful to new fans who might not understand what old fans are on about when they go on about superchunky. Tinni 12:29, October 17, 2009 (UTC)

I'm glad i wasn't the only one to think this. I like the idea of trivia being things that happen outside of the manga, like OVA's or the databooks. Or something a casual fan wouldn't know or notice. And definitely no speculative trivia.14:32, October 17, 2009 (UTC)

I think the trivia sections themselves are a problem. Yes, I can see some of them need cleaning up, but I'm really going to leave that in other people's hands. Don't get me wrong, it's not like I don't want to help, but I've cleaned out SO much garbage trivia that I'm probably not a good candidate to assist with the clean-up. The kind of trivia I've cleaned up are trivia points like "Harribel is the last of the top 3 Espada to die", "Yammy is the only Espada to be confirmed alive", and "Soifon is the first female to use bankai". Seriously, can anyone tell me how ANY of these 3 trivia points are the slightest bit relevant? Because honestly, to me, these are like saying "the sky is blue" and putting it down in the trivia section. Seriously, "trivia" like this has been added for so long that they are the only ones that I know that need to be removed, due to the sheer uselessness of said points. Arrancar109 19:03, October 17, 2009 (UTC)