geni wrote:
On 11/15/05, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
geni wrote:
Does "the entire world does not have
broadband" mean anything to you?
Ok so 32 is probably a little low for an article size limit but 40+
and popular culture/trivia are second on my list of things to kill
You mentioned the Arb Com as someone to deal with this sort of thing.
I suggest you check the case of Robert the Bruce, where systematic
removal of verifiable information from articles was considered the
most heinous of his offences.
What on Earth do you think you're doing? Spin it out to a separate
article if its presence offends your sense of order so grievously.
If popular culture/Trivia are so important why does [[Hurricane
Katrina]] (to chose a random example) not include either word?
Lets consdir the situation:
The problem: This article is to big and there is no obvious split
Solution. Remove stuff while doing the minium posible damage to the article.
That tends to result in the popular culture/trivia section being the
first to go.
I have always agreed that an article that exceeds 32k in length should
be a candidate for revision, and that it is sometimes difficult to find
an obvious place to split the article. Another good way of reducing an
article is to tighten up the language. Many writing styles are far too
verbose, and a friendly fire casualty of multiple editors is often the
prose style. This kind of work can even be done by someone with little
or no knowledge of the subject. Unfortunately, this kind of clean-up
takes a lot of hard work, and I can see that hard work would not sit
comfortably with those who prefer the convenience of snipping out entire
paragraphs.
I would not consider myself a big fan of popular culture, but I respect
the interest of others in it. I certainly do not support the credo that
it somehow impugns the dignity of Wikipedia. People love trivia.
Trivia is the meat and potatoes of the party conversation that begins
with, "Did you know that ..." The staged photo of a small group of US
troops in Iraq with an enormous and dangerous desert crab became the
inspiration of many conversations. Sometimes the most memorable
information in an otherwise completely tedious article is the trivia.
Ec