[WikiEN-l] Notability and ski resorts (was: Newbie and not-so-newbie biting)

[Ray Saintonge]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> Fwiw, my take is to use the more general approach of "do we have
> enough editors to mantain this depth of coverage". For the Obama
> transition we probably do, for the Truman one, probably not. As the
> years go by, the scales will tip and eventually we'll have to scale
> back our coverage.
>   

The better alternative is to scale up the shorter article. This is an 
extension of 'Wiki is not paper'.

> The only time this is a real problem is when one article has different
> sections that are grossly out of proportion, making one event or
> person look more "important" than another, simply because we have more
> people writing on it.
>
>   
Why does that need to be a problem?  You can't expect all articles to 
grow at the same rate.


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