On 16/07/07, Zoney <zoney.ie(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 15/07/07, Daniel P. B. Smith
<wikipedia2006(a)dpbsmith.com> wrote:
> I wish there were widespread general consensus
that there should not
> be a "list of X" article unless there is already a high-quality
> article on the topic of "X." And the list should begin as a section
> within the "X" article and should not be broken out until it becomes
> unmanageably long.
For some topics, I would suggest that there
shouldn't be a need for a list
within the main article (except perhaps as summary), or a list article.
Instead the content should be arranged as sections and paragraphs, e.g.
going through things chronologically or such. In other words, an
encyclopaedia article rather than a trivia look-up chart.
It really depends. e.g. [[Canon Digital IXUS]] and [[Exilim]], which I
add new models to as they come out - the big table is the most compact
and useful way of putting all the info for me. Also contains all the
info from what used to be several articles on the individual models -
there really wasn't enough special about the models to add more info.
(If there ever is then spinning them out again is easy enough.)
- d.