[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:Excellent short articles

[Steve Bennett]

On 10/24/07, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Like many Wikipedia decisions I feel that this one has been made
> defensively.  Short articles collect random unverified crap which they
> do not as much when part of a larger article.  A larger, compendium
> article is more likely to have watching editors, too.


That's an interesting point which sounds plausible. 10 articles of 1000
words are easier to patrol than 100 articles of 100 words each. Would that
our patrolling mechanisms were better...

Steve