My example would be [[Baltzar von Platen]], an excellent example of a short article that stands alone with useful and interesting links.
Fred
My new test case is [[Cyrus Cantrell]], an example less likely to provoke distracting emotional responses than the previous one - ignoring the genealogical connection. Dr. Cantrell is a not especially well-known academic in the field of engineering, who has done research in [[photonics]]. Assuming that no-one ever expands his article up to 20,000 characters (which seems likely), do you propose merging his article into another one? Possibly into [[photonics]], or into a new article for the research centre he heads? Both of these would require omitting some biographical material not directly relevant to his work - we don't generally give people's full names, qualifications, and a list of posts they hold if we're only mentioning them in the context of a larger subject, so information would be lost. What do you propose?
Oliver