Wikipedia's Identity Crisis: Keep or Delete Trivia?

Our beloved Wikipedia, the encyclopedia anyone can edit, is having an identity crisis: does it include all knowledge no matter how trivial, or does it adopt a more stringent editorial guideline to enhance its reputation as a credible reference?

These two conflicting visions are at the heart of a bitter struggle inside Wikipedia between “inclusionists”, who believe that applying strict editorial criteria will dampen contributors' enthusiasm for the project, and “deletionists” who argue that Wikipedia should be more cautious and selective about its entries.

In practice, deciding what is trivial and what is important is not easy. How do you draw editorial distinctions between an article entitled “List of nicknames used by George W. Bush” (status: kept) and one about “Vice-presidents who have shot people” (status: deleted)? Or how about “Natasha Demkina: Russian girl who claims to have X-ray vision” (status: kept) and “The role of clowns in modern society” (status: deleted)?

What? The role of clowns in modern society was deleted? Travesty!

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Wikitrivia?
"Wikitrivia has information on this subject." would work just as good.

I love the trivia lists in the wikis, hate that they are discouraged.
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Discouraging the trivia sections leads to some very clumsy writing where authors have shoehorned in something that belonged in the very worthwhile trivia sections.
Long live trivia!
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The trivia of today is the history is tomorrow.

I majored in English, so I am hardly objective in this matter, but the trivia of Wikipedia is half the reason I go there (usually for looking up tidbits on films I've just seen). After all, what is most knowledge in the context of everyday life, but trivia??
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I think trivia is the least of their worries. I notice that many entries appear to be monitored and "scrubbed", especially anything to do with alternative healing or so called 'conspiracy theories'. Huge corporations can afford to hire people just to keep information out of wikipedia! That's no trivial problem.
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The information at Wikipedia can be edited and altered to reflect any bias, from individual contributors to the people who actually monitor contributions.
This is something that should be borne in mind whenever viewing Wikipedia, but it is a useful site.
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Not so trivial: Even though decisions on Wikipedia, such as whether to keep or delete an article, are based on votes, they're not quite voting as most people understand it. It turns out that in those "votes", it's not the number of votes that count, but the strength of the voters' arguments, as decided by an administrator.

And even if an admin deigns to keep an article the first time, articles can be nominated for deletion over and over. Some articles have been nominated for deletion over 10 times! Somebody who hated the article must've thought, "the 18th time's the charm!"

For a while, Wikipedia had a crusade against plot summaries, and such things were deleted left and right. Plot summaries are half the reason I even use Wikipedia, to help me jump into fictional series midway. Now, however, a compromise has been reached: Plot summaries are allowed, but they must not take up more than half of the article.
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I agree with Johnald's idea:
why not just have secondary pages to trivial info?

and I add mine :
why not implementing a rating system such as download.com? (2 ratings : user & editor's)
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