On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:31:02 +0200, Boris Lohnzweiger wrote:
The German WP doesn't keep articles just because the subject is notable. If an article is too short, it will get deleted unless someone expands it (IIRC a time limit of a few days is quite common).
This is not correct. There are a number of two or three line articles that have been on the German Wikipedia for at least a year and nobody is planning to delete them. According to German WP deletion rules shortness doesn't justify a deletion and deletion is only a means of last resort ("letztes Mittel") if other measures fail. If it weren't that way, would we have almost 300,000 articles then?
You are correct that many short articles have remained in WP:de. However, short articles do get put up for deletion regularly based on that criterion.
The respective German guidelines are indeed written in a fairly similar spirit to the English ones. They don't seem to advocate the deletion of small stubs. But the folks who frequent [[de:Wikipedia:Löschkandidaten]] tend to have a different view.
I don't hang out on WP:de that often but if you deny that the German WP deletes article solely due to shortness you can't be a [[de:WP:LK]] regular, either.
Mind you, I'm not complaining. It is just something to keep in mind if you ever plan to write a stub for the German WP.
Roger