[WikiEN-l] Trivia and popular culture sections

Mon Feb 27 10:45:18 UTC 2006

"Guy Chapman aka JzG" <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> 
wrote in message news:7f6402dt0tnj6b7o6toqdfjrf4h0uq6f76 at 4ax.com...
[snip]
> Still and all, there is (to my mind) an important difference between
> arcana and trivia.  Certainly as far as an encyclopaedia is concerned.

One person's arcana is someone else's trivia.

Think of it from the point of view of someone approaching the subject for 
the first time, rather than as someone who has seen it all before...it's 
kind of like a "see also" section with go-faster stripes :-)

HTH HAND
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]] 