Steve Bennett wrote:
On 10/24/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
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.
Yes, but that's just restating the original thesis. It is true, but why? And is it desirable?
Don't really know why, but it makes the causation more specific. Figure out why so many people want to delete articles on obscure topics and you'll know why many small articles often get amalgamated into a few larger ones.
I don't think it's desirable; the resulting combined articles are often rather clumsy and the individual articles remain as redirects anyhow. I'd much rather see the articles remain separate. But until I can somehow stop the stuff from getting deleted as standalone articles seems like the best available option.