Matthew Brown wrote:
On 10/23/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@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.