[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:Excellent short articles

[Andrew Gray]

On 21/10/2007, Phoenix wiki <phoenix.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh no it can't. It can be very good but if it's under 50-60 lines long then
> it can't be excellent

Nonsense. We are an encyclopedia; the entire point of an encyclopedia
is not just to cover all sorts of things, but cover them simply and
concisely and without rabbiting on at great length about trivial
aspects.

There are no shortage of subjects where the perfect article is a
couple of tightly-written paragraphs and a pointer to further reading.

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk