[WikiEN-l] Contest and quality

[Nathaniel]

On 9/13/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> To be a featured article an article should be reasonably complete for
> the level of coverage we provide... but that doesn't require it to be
> long.
>
> I've heard that there is a trend on FAC is to encourage the creation
> of very long articles... even, perhaps, where really long is
> inappropriate. If this is the case then it's a cause to improve the FA
> process, not a cause to back away from making more articles
> featurable.


In my experience I haven't seen this--my most recent FA has only about 10k
of prose, and more often than the converse, people object because articles
are too long (more than 30-40k of prose).

Nathaniel