[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:Excellent short articles

[John Lee]

On 10/20/07, Phoenix wiki <phoenix.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Intersting page; what happened to it? Surely an excellent article can't be
> short?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Excellent_short_articles
>
> Phoenix15
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Phoenix_15


This misconception about excellence and brevity is something GA was
originally started to address - sometimes articles cover everything or most
that can be known about a subject, but they wouldn't pass muster at FA
because of the perception that they're just too short, etc. GA was created
for that. Of course, within weeks it was hijacked by people seeking gold
stars for "FA but not quite" articles. This excellent short articles thing
seems interesting...what happened to it, I wonder...

Johnleemk