[WikiEN-l] A morsel of substance, a truckload of nonsense

[Peter Coombe]

2009/4/23  <WJhonson at aol.com>:
> In a message dated 4/23/2009 1:34:55 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com writes:
>
> Sorry,  you hold what qualification in medieval history to make this
> comment?  What do you think the so-called "feudal system" was about  if
> not the holding of land, which made up most of the economy of Europe
> from say 600 to at least 1600? >>
> --------------------
>
> Not the point.
> This article is not about the feudal system, not about an example of a
> person with a hundred plots of land.  It's about one person, their  life.  Not
> their land holdings.
>
> By the way.  I didn't "target a constructive editor".  I did not  look, and
> don't make it a habit to look at *who* edited an article.  It's a  waste of
> time.  The article is the thing, not the people behind it.
>
> This article is poor.  Whether it's a good example of the feudal  system or
> not (and it's not) isn't relevant to whether it's a good example of a
> stubby biography (which it's not).
>
> Will

As Charles said, the landholding information is important and relevant
for this person in the context of when they lived. At the moment
though it does rather overwhelm the rest of the article, because of
the extent and the formatting. As a compromise, how about putting it
inside a hidey box, set to hide by default? {{hidden}} The citations
could be cut down by moving the full Domesday book reference into
==References== similar to the other books, and in-line citing just
page numbers.

In fact, I think I'll go try that now.

Pete / the wub