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TRIVIA

THERES IS UNNECESSARY TRIVIA IN THIS ARTICLE, IT MUST BE PURGED (PLS LETS REMOVE CA-47 IN POPULAR CULTURE SECTION), (UNEXPLICABLY STUCK ON ALL CAPS) 107.190.33.254 (talk) 00:49, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Why must "trivia" be purged? If it is indeed trivia. Which I believe it isn't. If correctly sourced it should stay in my opinion. Note that I didn't actually originally write it so this is not me defending my own work. Benawu2 (talk) 01:50, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia's definition doesn't mention anything about "well sourced". But let's first agree on a definition of trivia.

"details or information that are not important" (Cambridge dictionary)

"unimportant matters, details or information" (Oxford dictionary)

Trivia makes pages too long and makes unessential information appear more useful than it really is.

Now let's just see whether this information passes the test.

For starters, it's a particular detail (we can agree on that, right?), since it isn't the focal point of the article, but that doesn't prove that it is trivia. On top of proving that it is a detail, I have to show that it is an irrelevant one for the purposes of this article. Let's agree that this is about the ELECTORAL DISTRICT, so important information would include : where it is, who represented it and obviously election results. Now let's agree on something else : we don't have a "in popular culture" section for every article of a job held by an important character in "the west wing" mentioning that this job is held by an important character in " the west wing", and get this : THERE ARE reliable sources showing that this is the case for all of these sections, and yet we STILL DONT DO IT. 107.190.33.254 (talk) 21:15, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia makes pages too long and makes unessential information appear more useful than it really is. - This is the bit we just don't agree about. I think it adds a quirky, interesting piece to an otherwise relatively dry article. Benawu2 (talk) 01:24, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, since you insist, but I still feel like it is needlessly long, how about this as a neutral meeting point : "California's 47th congressional district was the scene of a congressional election (won by a deceased Democrat), and later a congressional special election (won by the Republican incumbent), featured in several episodes of the political drama The West Wing." 107.190.33.254 (talk) 13:45, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Huzzah! Benawu2 (talk) 21:20, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, Huzzah! I will now make the edit. 107.190.33.254 (talk) 14:26, 7 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]