If Wikipedia is an odd collection of pointless and useless stuff, the trivia section must be like pointless squared. I realize trivia by definition is just a collection of useless stuff, but I thought they're supposed to be useless stuff that people might find interesting. I mean some of the stuff would look like "Did you know Don is the only word in the English language that begins with D, ends with n, and have an o in between the D and the n?" I realize whoever put those trivia must have thought they're really cool, but I've a hard time imagining why anybody would think this is the case. I know even Wikipedia has this tag that says like "The below section contains useless stuff, it might need to be cleaned up", so I don't think I'm alone.
Of course it gets even worse if you go into the fan wikis that seems to exist on every obscure stuff. It's not even just an English thing. I went to a Japanese wiki site and it's just as bad. It looks like when you're in a high school English class where you're forced to explain why when a guy says 'hi' this is supposed to be foreshadowing for the events to come. I saw one making a claim that some move with the character "Heaven" must be derived from Fist of the North Stars, just because there's a move that has the character with the move "Heaven" in it. It's like stop the presses, some series has a monopoly on using the word 'Heaven' in all of gaming! What's next? Does Capcom claim to have a monopoly on all energy based projectiles? Does Square lay claim to have sole use to the word Magic?
Of course it gets even worse if you go into the fan wikis that seems to exist on every obscure stuff. It's not even just an English thing. I went to a Japanese wiki site and it's just as bad. It looks like when you're in a high school English class where you're forced to explain why when a guy says 'hi' this is supposed to be foreshadowing for the events to come. I saw one making a claim that some move with the character "Heaven" must be derived from Fist of the North Stars, just because there's a move that has the character with the move "Heaven" in it. It's like stop the presses, some series has a monopoly on using the word 'Heaven' in all of gaming! What's next? Does Capcom claim to have a monopoly on all energy based projectiles? Does Square lay claim to have sole use to the word Magic?
