Then They Came For the Articles About Comic Book Villains Written in the Past Tense

Dr. X writes this from the rent controlled apartment Gwen Stacy used to live in:

"At the top of a very interesting Wikipedia article on The Green Goblin, some busybody has inserted this bit of bureaucratic make-work:

This article describes fictional events in the past tense. The present tense should be used in order to clearly differentiate between fictional events and actual history. To meet Wikipedia's quality standards, this comics-related article or section may require cleanup.

"That's stupid. I mean, everyone knows that the 'serum that granted Osborn superhuman strength also drove him insane.' How the hell are you supposed to write that in the present tense? 'The serum that grants Osborne superhuman strength also drives him insane?' What, you mean every day? What fucking language is that supposed to be?

"This is almost the dumbest thing I've seen them do this month. The dumbest: some martinet is trying to ban trivia sections from articles. In many articles you'll find a box that says:

This article contains a trivia section.
Content in this section should be integrated into other appropriate areas of the article or removed, and the trivia section removed.

"People: the trivia section is the best part of every Wikipedia article. From the article on garlic:

The city of Gilroy, California promotes itself as "Garlic Capital of the World", and hosts the three-day Gilroy Garlic Festival every summer.

The two-day Hudson Valley Garlic Festival is held yearly in Saugerties, New York.

In the televised cartoon shorts, before he used spinach as a source of superhuman strength, comic book character Popeye's ancestor Hercules would sniff fresh bulbs of unpeeled garlic.

"That's important stuff. If you delete it, I will boycott Wikipedia.

"You've been warned."