On 4/10/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Yes. I'm wondering if the people frantically consolidating stubs are thinking of convenience for the reader actually looking for that thing at all.
Yes, it was quite an epiphany for me when I realised that "real" encyclopaedias actually have lots of very short articles. They don't call them "stubs" either. And they leave out pointless gossip about people's personal lives.
Maybe I should dredge up my proposal for notability to be defined in kilobytes: this child actor gets 1kb of Wikipedia space. This cold war president gets up to 100kb of Wikipedia space.
Steve