[WikiEN-l] The Economist on "notability"

[White Cat]

Oh and disk space has gotten cheaper. I once calculated the cost of disk
space and it was like below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration/Episodes_and_characters#White_Cat.27s_reply_to_Jack_Merridew

  - White Cat

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Wily D <wilydoppelganger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Those presenting "detailed articles" or "good general overviews" as
> mutually incompatible are presenting a false dichotomy.  There's no
> reason we can't have *both* an episode list and a more detailed
> article for each episode.
> We do have lists of minor planets (for loading, broken into chunks of
> 10000) which just list the name, number, provisional designation,
> discoverer and discovery date, additionally some (though not yet all)
> minor planets have more detailed articles that fall under the list,
> for those who want to know more.  There's no reason to pick one or the
> other when we can do both and not neglect a significant component of
> our readers.
>
> Unless disk space suddenly got way more expensive?
>
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