[Wikipedia-l] A Different Thread

[Fred Bauder]

At 09:57 PM 9/23/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Of course, I still argue that that 95+% of encyclopedia topics objectively 
>can't be covered even as minimal articles with fewer than 500 characters. I 
>would further argue that it is not possible to have a decent definition
using 
>fewer than 100 characters, but that is a different thread....
 
>-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

I would suggest the opposite. Perhaps 5% of the hundred million or so
possible entries would justify an article of more than 500 characters. That
still leaves 500,000 potential articles of more than 500 characters.

Fred