On 9/13/06, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/12/06, Carl Peterson carlopeterson@gmail.com wrote:
That goal (and the goal of even 100,000 FAs) may mean that articles which could not be brought to FA level on their own need to be merged (e.g., a single, comprehensive article on multiple schools instead of a stub for each individual article)
I'm not sure I agree. Some articles are going to be short simply because there is not much known or notable about the topic to say. It still helps readers in many cases for the article to be separate if it's a topic that's singular and not easily merged with others. I'm not against merging in most cases, but I'm against one-size-fits-all.
To be a featured article an article should be reasonably complete for the level of coverage we provide... but that doesn't require it to be long.
I've heard that there is a trend on FAC is to encourage the creation of very long articles... even, perhaps, where really long is inappropriate. If this is the case then it's a cause to improve the FA process, not a cause to back away from making more articles featurable.