Viajero wrote:
Hi all,
Perhaps I have been out of the loop on this development, but when I
started contributing to WP, limiting article length to 32Kb was
considered an important consideration. Lately, though, I've been
encountering articles considerably longer. Yesterday, I wanted to
refactor some material in one to tighten it up and another user
objected, saying that [[George W. Bush]] was 72Kb in length. Has the
32Kb threshold effectively been abandoned?
FWIW, I thought the 32Kb limit served as a useful stylistic constraint,
as it encouraged a a measure concision in unwieldy topics. I am going to
take a look at the Bush article in a moment to see what I think of such
a long article.
V.
In the recent village pump revisting of this very topic, all that was
established was that
1) the hard 32kb limit due to technical reasons has been abandoned since
the inception of section-editing.
2) Softer limits due to readability and editability should be left for
editors to work out on a case-by-case article-by-article basis - though
good practice such as summary style tends to spread quickly.
The GWB article is the hardest "case" I've seen -
i) We've already spun out sub-pages on many aspects
ii) Trying to be even-handed on contentious topics tends to create a lot
of words
GWB is one article where we have too much colloboration :),