User blog comment:DocTanner/Discussing Trivia Guidelines/@comment-3358335-20131014181410

The first three rules look very familiar :-p So I support them. Rule number 4 is, to me, the same as rule number 3. More of a corollary really. While Ancient Egyptian Mythology may not be exactly popular culture, you cannot dispute that Anubis was there first and any other version of Anubis anywhere else is pretty much a copy of a cultural icon 5 thousand years old. Egypt Hipsters win, in all cases. (Although in some cases we may require a selfie video of someone wearing a loincloth and dancing to "Dance like an Egyptian.")

The change I don't like is rule 5. I am ok with adding a "Speculation" section in which people can identify Easter eggs. I don't think it belongs with the rest of the real trivia. I also think it belongs more on the Lore page than the trivia page. I also think there needs to be a responsibility to maintain Easter eggs as they are found out. "This may be a hint of x happening in the future." Should be changed to "In October of 2013 this easter egg was left, in January of 2014, X was released confirming the easter egg."

The main thing to avoid is all of the "This may be. . .", "This might be. . .", and "It could be a reference to. . ." statements on the page. Those are atrocious. And it's an instant red flag for removal as it's complete garbage. I usually try and check those references before removing them. If I can confirm them than I remove the "might be" portion in order to make it a factual statement instead of speculation. If I can't confirm it, then it's gone.

The last and hardest point to make guidelines for is "Keep it interesting and relevant." I specifically left that out of my original guidelines because it is so easy to hotly and passionately debate. But there must be some sort of subjective way to use and enforce it. An example of something totally true that fails to be interesting and relevant would be:

If you take the first letter of Poppy's name and trade it with the 3rd letter, It still spells Poppy.
 * Also if you trade the 4th and 3rd letter it will also spell Poppy.
 * It goes without saying that if you then trade the third (now first) letter with the first (now 4th) it still. . spells Poppy.

It seems ridiculous that someone would write something like that. . but I see "Trivia" that falls under that category all the time.