On 4/18/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/04/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
The recommended sizes for articles should not be governing our decisions about what is the best way to present our content. We wouldn't refrain from including a significant point of view in an article just because the article was too long, to give an extreme example.
No, but an article over about 30KB is damn hard to read on a screen.
The usual way this is dealt with is to split off subarticles, with a summary para left in the main article.
I am familiar with the summary style by now :)
However, it's still fundamentally a stylistic issue. It shouldn't be subordinated to content issues. We specifically refrain from using the summary style where doing so would create a POV fork, for example.
I must say I find it unusual that the only argument mustered against merging so far is that it would make the article long.