[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:Excellent short articles

[Steven Walling]

Yeah and still does. You might try actually looking at some GAs before
shooting your mouth off. I've reviewed dozens of GA articles, and most of
them are far, far too short to ever be FA. I think almost all GA project
people would agree. Examples I have passed: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación
Nacional (Puerto Rico), Haystacks (Monet), SS Christopher Columbus, Roman
trade with India, and the list goes on. The point is: yes, long articles get
passed by GA when they should be FA candidates. But that serves as a great
stepping stone for those articles, and the short, great articles that never
will be FA get to be recognized.

On 10/21/07, John Lee <johnleemk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/21/07, Stephanie M. Clarkson <thespian at sleepingcat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Phoenix wiki wrote:
> > > On 10/20/07, Majorly <axel9891 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > >> On 20/10/2007, Phoenix wiki <phoenix.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>> Surely an excellent article can't be
> > >>> short?
> > >>>
> > >> Oh yes it can.
> > >
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> >
> > Untrue. I write on several articles that do, in fact, cover everything
> > that you might need to know about a subject (indeed, I'm *often* taking
> > lines out of [[Hidden tracks]] because everyone any their brother wants
> to
> > add their favourite bands track to the article, even if there's already
> a
> > documented example of the method they used to 'hide' the track). But the
> > articles will never be 'featured'; they often just aren't an expansive
> > enough subject, even when they're definitely something someone might
> well
> > look up.
> >
> > (in the case of the Hidden tracks, it will also never be labelled a GA,
> > because there's a checklist that people use, such as 'should include a
> > picture', and the vague idea that the article should be more prose, less
> > list. Yet in the case of the subject in question, it makes much more
> sense
> > to say, 'Here's a method, here's some technical info about how it's
> > implemented. a) example, b) variant, c) variant.' Also a picture on the
> page
> > would be superfluous; illustrating 'Hidden tracks' is impossible. It's a
> > short article, to the point, and not ever going to be more than a
> B-class
> > because people have a list of things that they check it against, instead
> of
> > allowing that not all subjects need to be 20 pages, 300 footnotes, and
> > copiously illustrated, and that the subject does in fact cover the
> subject
> > completely, regardless of the checklist)
>
>
> And the irony is that GA was initiated to specifically recognise this kind
> of article.
>
> Johnleemk
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