On 10/24/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
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.
That's an interesting point which sounds plausible. 10 articles of 1000 words are easier to patrol than 100 articles of 100 words each. Would that our patrolling mechanisms were better...
Steve