Jimmy Wales wrote:
I think that deletionism forgets that Wiki Is Not Paper, and that completionism is likely to lead us to a better final article.
The problem with this approach is that while Wiki is Not Paper, readers' attention spans are limited. If I want to read an overview of Mother Theresa's life, I most certainly do not want it to be 20 pages long. I'd much prefer a more summarized (dare I say, "encyclopedia-style") biography. If the rest of the information must be in Wikipedia, it'd be nice if it were factored out into separate articles (maybe "Criticism of Mother Theresa" and "Reasons for Mother Theresa's Beatification" or something similar). Generally if a Wikipedia article is so ridiculously long that nobody not doing a thesis on the topic would want to read it, it becomes much less useful to the general public.
-Mark