[WikiEN-l] Oversized criticism sections and WP:UNDUE (was: Notability and ski resorts)

[Carcharoth]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Apoc 2400 wrote:
>> This discussion about splitting off sections to articles, notability and
>> undue weight reminded me of something I encountered recently:
>>
>> What do you do if you find an article with a short description of the
>> subject followed by a huge criticism/controversy section with subsections
>> for every negative opinion about the subject ever published? It is sourced
>> so just removing most of it will get you reverted by the people who wrote
>> the article.
>>
> Hmm, I thought such "criticism sections" had been deprecated for quite a
> few years now. One thing to do is to add {{criticism section}}, the
> wording of which is what I recall (that criticism is better integrated
> into an article).  In the hugeness case the integration would make the
> article look like the "attack article" it probably is.

We have around 125 articles with "criticism of" in the title:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=1&search=intitle%3Acriticism%2Bof&fulltext=Search&ns0=1

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