[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:Excellent short articles

[Bryan Derksen]

Matthew Brown wrote:
> On 10/23/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  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.
> 
> 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.

It's also a defense against deletion. In my experience a short article
on an obscure topic is more likely to go on the notability chopping
block than the exact same material embedded within a larger "List of"
article is.

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