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@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/21/07, Stephanie M. Clarkson thespian@sleepingcat.com wrote:
Phoenix wiki wrote:
On 10/20/07, Majorly axel9891@googlemail.com wrote:
On 20/10/2007, Phoenix wiki phoenix.wiki@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.
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