My experience in this is in WikiProject Louisville, where we've tried to
address the issue of people wanting to create articles for random elementary
schools that don't amount to much more than three lines. So, our [[List of
Schools in Louisville]] is a bit more than just a list of school names. We
haven't prodded the original articles, but that's one of the things we've
been doing to get an article (or list, or whatever you might call it) of
some length (we'll split it sometime down the road) that can cover a subject
without being a stub.
Carl
On 9/13/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/13/06, Matt Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/12/06, Carl Peterson
<carlopeterson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> That goal (and the goal of even 100,000 FAs)
> may mean that articles which could not be brought to FA level on their
own
> need to be merged (e.g., a single,
comprehensive article on multiple
schools
instead
of a stub for each individual article)
I'm not sure I agree. Some articles are going to be short simply
because there is not much known or notable about the topic to say. It
still helps readers in many cases for the article to be separate if
it's a topic that's singular and not easily merged with others. I'm
not against merging in most cases, but I'm against one-size-fits-all.
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.
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