On 24/10/2007, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/23/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
If you look at most encyclopaedias, most of their articles are very short a paragraph or two. It's a pity that the overwhelming tendency on Wikipedia is to amalgamate several short articles into one longer one.
Like many Wikipedia decisions I feel that this one has been made defensively. Short articles collect random unverified crap which they do not as much when part of a larger article. A larger, compendium article is more likely to have watching editors, too.
It's actually a strong and direct push from AFD from some people there to consolidate as much as possible. I'm pretty sure this is not such a good idea for encyclopaedic usefulness.
- d.
(no, I'm not back from holiday, and I'm certainly not using stray wifi for any sort of email addiction. Perish forbid!)