[WikiEN-l] If anyone ever says Wikipedia is too deletionist

Bod Notbod bodnotbod at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 14:34:09 UTC 2009


On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Steve Bennett<stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Train station, just possibly.
>
> Once again I like my proposal to think in terms of length of article,
> not a boolean "is allowed to exist". Real encyclopaedias have short
> articles about unimportant stuff and long articles about important
> stuff. A train station might well be worth two sentences.

Of course you might get something weird happen, like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanhill_railway_station

Because of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Millionth_article_FAQ



More information about the WikiEN-l mailing list