On 4/10/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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