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