Todd Allen wrote:
Bryan Derksen wrote:
In any event, when one finds a situation where one topic has lots of coverage and another topic has less but one feels should have more, I don't believe the appropriate solution is to delete stuff from the first topic until they're even. The solution should be to _add_ stuff to the second topic.
That depends if the second topic is a valid one in the first place. Deletion, cutting, and merging are excellent ways to deal with articles which aren't covered significantly in secondary, independent sources. Editors edit. Part of that is to cut. That's not a bad thing.
If you feel something isn't a "valid" topic for an article at all, just put it up for deletion and let the deletionism/inclusionism war set up a battlefront there for a while to hash things out.
I don't see how that affects my criticism of wikigroaning, though, since I say it's based on a fallacious underestimation of our coverage of the topic that's generally considered more "serious" rather than based on the large size of the culture-related one. If a Wikigroaner went to [[Lightsabre]] and found it to be 72 kilobytes long (exactly as it is right now) but then went to [[Light]] and found it to be 250 kilobytes long (a wild guess at how big the contents of [[Category:Light]] would be if mashed together in one page) there'd be no basis for his complaint.