Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28809980-20190304005621

Hi everyone!

I'm back here with a topic I wanted to discuss since a long time (Fall 2017 I think), which is the "History" and "Trivia" sections. There are currently no mentions of the "History" and "Trivia" section in the Rips Manual of Style, so I think it's worth discussing these again so that we could complete it.

The consensus reached before if I remember well was that the "History" section should only be used for removed rips (ex: GiIvaSunner) and that if we were to talk about channel events, we should use the "Trivia" section.

In the end I actually disagree with this because in my opinion the first case is a little too specific, and channel events are pretty important for understanding the context of a joke, so I'm not sure if they should really be considered as trivia. I think that any rip has some sort of "History", not just deleted rips, though they are the best examples of why upload dates matter.

So my view of the "History" section is the following: it is an entirely optional section for more advanced and polished articles, which would use info from the "Jokes" and "Trivia" sections. It could list dates of creation, publication and album releases of a rip. It could tell about exactly who was involved in the making of a rip and how, as well as potential channel events that were ocurring at the time.

The aim is to give a detailed context to a rip, that is not necessarily understandable by watching the rip alone, and would so not be considered part of the jokes - the "Jokes" section, but is noteworthy enough to not be in the "Trivia" section.

As some of you may have seen, I already incorporated "History" sections in quite a few of my articles, without approval of the community. Sorry about that. I will use these articles as examples for this discussion though. Here are some examples: "Battle 1 - Final Fantasy II", "Septette for the Dead Princess - Touhou 6: the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil ", "Septette for the Dead Princess (MIDI Version) - Touhou 6: Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil ", "Narrow Road (Remastered) - Falsion ".

So to summarize here are some features of the "History" section: So do you think such a "History" section could improve the quality of Rips articles? Tell me what you think! 
 * Contains information that is not too essential, meaning that you can use "Trivia" instead when first creating articles.
 * Repeat information from the infobox that are not detailed in "Jokes" and the introductory phrase, such as the Ripper, Upload date and Album.
 * Fill articles that are otherwise lackluster because the joke can be explained in one line.
 * Gathering information about related rips and explaining how the rip was made instead of using the "Jokes" section.
 * Avoid having too much information as a "Trivia" list, and making the information coherent, for example by moving the mention of Channel events next to the Upload date.
 * However, this raises the question of what we should really consider to be "Trivia".