On 5/2/06, Philip Welch wikipedia@philwelch.net wrote:
On May 2, 2006, at 3:18 AM, Zoney wrote:
According to his proposal, yes, it does.
Of course, to be realistic you'd have to add in [[Wikipedia:Article size]]. An article just about a four-way stop would probably be better off merged with another article and redirected, unless it was a particularly interesting four-way stop.
So [[Pullman, Washington]] would have detailed prose about each and every single intersection? That's absurd.
There's little need to deliberately present such absurd options, that obviously aren't being suggested by others.
The logical place to merge a sentence or two about an intersection is into the article for that route.
Great. Now every city street has its own article. Imagine:
That would be incredible, but somehow I doubt there are that many dedicated Wikipedians that it's going to happen.
Anyway, I look forward to the day when I can use Wikipedia to find out about the local coffee shops and Linux User Groups and radio stations and indie artists. If that means I have to stop myself from clicking on a link to [[Harrisburg Street, St. Petersburg]] and reading about the width of the sidewalks, it's well worth it.
Otherwise, if you can think of some way that Wikipedia can allow what's interesting to me but not allow what I personally find to be "cruft", without boring me with the nearly impossible task of going through every VFD discussion myself, I'd love to hear it.
Anthony