On Friday, December 19, 2003, at 01:57 PM, Daniel Mayer wrote:
I just want to clarify my statement that it is best to divide topics into digestible bits. I think this should only be considered for most articles once they reach the 20 KB (minus markup) size and the resulting daughter articles are not stubs. Although some articles demand a larger size just to summarize all the main points and clearly link to daughters that have move detail on each of those points.
I'll agree with that, and amend my previous opinion to do so (for all of you keeping score at home).
Sometimes it's appropriate to have a long article, sometimes not. I think it's foolish to set a definite size limit as a 'rule', but as a rule of thumb I agree.
I don't like the idea of daughter articles, though. Sounds too much like another word for subpage to me. If it doesn't work out of context, it should be a subpage, or, if we don't want subpages, we should include it in the main article. Personally, I'd rather use subpages in this case, but the consensus seems to be against me.
Peter
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