Unless we're living in a world of 56K internet still, I think 32K could become at least 50K. Even articles on albums by Eminem and so forth are getting above 32K - Giving that limit is slowly even limiting the growth of good articles. If an article grows above that it should be allowed to grow, unless it is obviously repeating itself. ----- Original Message ----- From: "JAY JG" jayjg@hotmail.com To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 9:06 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Article size consistency 32k
As it happens, some (including me) think it's a good recommended maximum length for an article for readability - there should be a compelling reason to go over six thousand words. But considerations like 172's (subject requires it, article is really good) still get past. So if the Germany article should get by even being over 32k, the nominator would probably have to convince people the subject required it for proper coverage. (Which I can well see being likely.)
In this case, the issue is more complex than just the 32k limit. Regardless, and without getting into extreme detail, brevity is being strongly encouraged on the article, which is already well over 32K, and seems to be getting larger with every edit. The argument from the person most strongly arguing against limiting the size seems to me to mostly be "These are facts, and the United States article is even bigger, that's not fair".
Jay.
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