[Wikipedia-l] Minimum and maximum article size

[Ray Saintonge]

Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:

> At some point it makes sense to include them in the main article: we 
> don't need a separate article
> to mention that, say, New York's City Hall has a nice facade and 
> boring back because the builders
> thought nobody would ever live north of it.
>
> Similarly, Nampa's landmarks and history probably should be in the 
> article about Nampa unless
> they're of great interest and should be written about at length. A 
> statue of a president doesn't need
> its own article, for example, though it might include links to the 
> sculptor and the president. 

For me this also opens up a question about optimum article size.  There 
is a large body of opinion in Wikipedia that frowns upon stubs, but we 
also have a growing collection of very long articles that could probably 
stand to be split up into articles of a more reasonable size.  

As things stand [[Atlas Shrugged]], [[Worms computer games]], and 
[[RFC]] all link to a long list of pages that could easily be consolidated.

In the city examples above New York City's article is likely to grow 
much faster than Nampa's, but a collection of guidelines illustrating 
when and how to subdivide would be interesting.

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