all but the glyph section could be truncated with, as far as I can see, equal justification in the way that you suggest -MY GOD, HE'S SEEN THE LIGHT.  No, all jokes aside, making the philosophical implications of three-ness a major point of the article is only inviting me to come along and argue with you.  My religion and natural philosophy is centered around the number five, which means you're wrong.  I know you're wrong because I am a priest (and a docktor) who has spent much time studying the mystickal properties of the number 5 and how it relates the to number 3 (and the number 2 - this is very important).  I think overall my philosophy overall has as much merit as that of Mr. Pierce.  Whether you interpret that as praise towards me or an insult towards the late C.S. is entirely up to you.  But ultimately neither have a place on this page.  Now, if you asked me, a list of stories with the number three in the title also doesn't belong here.  Maybe on the disambig page - "3 can mean.... literature: The Three Little Pigs, The Three Bears, Three Blind Mice, etc."  Three Bears is a popular Russian chocolate candy, do we include that here as well?  I can see how cases where the numeral 3 is used in common classification systems - such as the periodic table, or even positions in sports (the first baseman is literally referred to as "3" in phrases such as "4-6-3 double play"), but things like "three witches in macbeth" seem much more eehhhhhhhh.  maybe this is an issue to be argued with the whole wikinumbers project.  i only have issue with this page because when i stumbled on it some 10 months ago it actually had A COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS AMOUNT of unnecessary, marginally significant, and horribly formatted content, and I actually want this website to be good and useful instead of a godawful pile of crap. SORRY FOR THE O/T but that's what happens when you get me going  (I apologize in advance for certain individuals who are too sensitive to hear the truth)