Thank you, Risker.
Measuring article length can be rather meaningless in a hyperlinked medium. :-)
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
We have a saying on English Wikipedia: "Other stuff exists"[1], which emphasizes that the importance or significance of one article should not be judged by comparing it to another article. It is a logical fallacy that, because one article is longer, or has more references, or better images, etc., that another article is substandard.
In this case, the comparison of these two articles shows that the breast cancer article is very well referenced for its subject using top quality references; it is well written and covers every aspect of the subject in depth. There are many daughter articles, as well.
The Gangnam Style article is loaded with templated charts illustrating press reaction in dozens of countries, awards won, chart positions in just about as many - all of which have a large number of references, as each individual entry must be verifiable. It is not terribly well written, with little differentiation between significant facts and trivia, and most of the templated information should probably be broken out into daughter articles.
Which is the better article? The breast cancer one, by far. Just because it's not as long as another article that has far too much trivia in it, doesn't mean it isn't the superior article.
Risker/Anne
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Other_stuff_exists
On 22 December 2012 12:46, Ole Palnatoke Andersen ole@palnatoke.orgwrote:
My friend Peter just tweeted* "Den engelske wikipedia-artikel om Gangnam Style er både længere og har over dobbelt så mange kilder som artiklen om brystkræft." ('the English Wikipedia article on Gangnam style is longer and has more than twice as many references as the article on breast cancer').
He's right ** ***. Will someone please make him wrong?
TIA, Ole
*) https://twitter.com/peterbrodersen/status/282539324396953602 **) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangnam_Style ***) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_cancer
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