On 10/23/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
If you look at most encyclopaedias, most of
their articles are very short -
a paragraph or two. It's a pity that the overwhelming tendency on
Wikipedia is to amalgamate several short articles into one longer one.
Like many Wikipedia decisions I feel that this one has been made
defensively. Short articles collect random unverified crap which they
do not as much when part of a larger article. A larger, compendium
article is more likely to have watching editors, too.
It's also a defense against deletion. In my experience a short article
on an obscure topic is more likely to go on the notability chopping
block than the exact same material embedded within a larger "List of"
article is.