[WikiEN-l] We're growing up (was [[Daniel Brandt]] is gone again)

[David Gerard]

On 15/06/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:

> While you bring up athletes...
> We currently have a -lot- of permastubs on athletes, especially those
> who played professionally but may not have ever started for anyone. As a
> rule, these articles tend to be very lightly watched (if at all), and I
> would imagine vandalism to one could stay for quite some time.
> What would anyone think of merging such things into, say, "List of
> players on the 1999 San Francisco 49ers"? Obviously, we would still have
> separate articles on Joe Montana and Jerry Rice, but we could then put
> the third-stringers and such into a place where it would be more
> watched, less prone to vandalism, and not presented as a full biography
> of the person.
> Thoughts?


What would be most useful to the reader looking up that person? It is
useful to know they haven't done anything else notable.

I submit that it greatly reduces usefulness for a name to redirect to
a 60kb list the reader then has to go searching through to find the
same information.


- d.