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Stan Shebs wrote:
> Boris Lohnzweiger wrote:
> 
>> Roger wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The German WP doesn't keep articles
>>> just because the subject is notable. If an article is too short, it
>>> will get deleted unless someone expands it (IIRC a time limit of a few
>>> days is quite common).
>>>
>>
>> This is not correct. There are a number of two or three line articles
>> that have been on the German Wikipedia for at least a year and nobody
>> is planning to delete them. According to German WP deletion rules
>> shortness doesn't justify a deletion and deletion is only a means of
>> last resort ("letztes Mittel") if other measures fail. If it weren't
>> that way, would we have almost 300,000 articles then?
>>
> The conclusion that I take away from this thread is that yes,
> each wikipedia has its own culture and preferred practices, and
> it would be extraordinarily useful to have articles describing
> all that. Even just a translated summary of distinctive policy
> pages would be helpful to people who are not fluent in the other
> WP's language. For instance, if I were interested in whether the
> Russian WP accepts "fair use" images, an English WP article on
> the Russian WP would probably be a more reliable way to find out
> than by posting an English-language question on the Russian
> equivalent of village pump.
> 

The perfect place for all this of course is on Meta :)

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