[Wikipedia-l] Notability of web pages and people; and article merging/splitting

On 11/20/05, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com> wrote: Just because something is notable doesn't mean it has to have its own separate article. I'd say most, if not all, information about web pages would be better off merged with something else. The way "you decide" if there's something to write about it is the same way "you decide" whether or not any bit of information improves an article or makes it worse, using a wiki. People, on the other hand, tend to have separate identities from one another, and merging generally isn't a good idea. I especially hate when one person is redirected to another person, and I don't think that should ever be done. "Baby Gary who's 3 months old" might find a better home on a page about his family though, at least for a while. But please not as a separate section unto itself. That's another pet peeve I have - when multiple different articles are "merged" into a single one in a way that puts each article as a separate headline (sometimes even with its own external links and other subsections). I guess this is done as a compromise between those who want to delete the information and those who want to keep it, but it seems like the worst of both worlds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Answers (a redirect to [[List of Google services and tools]]) is an example of where this disgusting technique takes place. I fail to see how this is a better way of organizing things. A list should be a list. An article on Google services and tools should discuss the relationship of the tools and services to one another, and discuss general trends which Google is making, not present a bunch of separate articles stuck together on one page. Anthony