[Foundation-l] Candidate statements

[David Gerard]

On 21/09/06, daniwo59 at aol.com <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:

>  Accordng to Gmaxwell, the largest candidate statement is approximately 20,000 words, i.e., a novella. We have 17 candidates this election. If each one wrote a statement of that length, we would have 340,000 words to read, i.e., statements totalling several times the length of "War and Peace" or a standard Dickens novel. We are talking "A la recherche du temps perdu."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_novels (which I started)
gives it as 1.5 million words. A better comparison might be
[[:en:Mission Earth (novel)]] ... in all sorts of ways.


>  I suggest that the time of Wikimedians can be better spent than reading statements of this length by, for example, researching articles. I would suggest that the time of our translators could be better spent working on making high quality content available in all languages.


Yes, but is suggesting that articles are more productive work than
process out of process?


>  In the first election, I set a limit of 500 words on each candidate's statement. Despite the complaints back then, there was a reason for that.


Seconded. They can write the novel on their own pages, but expecting
people to read it is ridiculous.


- d.