On 10/24/07, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
Excellent short articles can be short.
If you look at most encyclopaedias, most of their articles are very short - a paragraph or two. It's a pity that the overwhelming tendency on Wikipedia is to amalgamate several short articles into one longer one. It means that less often a searcher finds an article whose primary focus is about the actual topic they're searching for. To take an extreme example, it would be better IMHO for someone searching for, say "Old Engineering Building 34" to receive a short one liner "OEB34 is one of several buildings at the University of Foobar. See [[University of Foobar#Engineering]] for more information."
Steve