On 17/02/2009, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I love a good metaphor! You're absolutely right,
writing articles
about very general topics is very difficult. I think the problem comes
in trying to balance breadth, depth and conciseness. There isn't an
obvious solution - it just needs someone with the right talents to
devote a significant amount of time and effort to it.
I believe that there's probably a class of general articles that will
never go FA. Some topics will not fit into the combination of
guidelines (particularly length), and to the extent that these
guidelines are rigidly enforced, then you have no chance.
The only way to get some articles (particularly general ones) past FA
is to remove stuff from them, and hope nobody in the FA review notices
;-)
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-Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly
imperfect world would be much better.