[Wikipedia-l] An Excellent Short Article was Limits to the non-paperiness of Wikipedia?

[Fred Bauder]

My example would be [[Baltzar von Platen]], an excellent example of a short
article that stands alone with useful and interesting links.

Fred

> 
> My new test case is [[Cyrus Cantrell]], an example less likely to provoke
> distracting emotional responses than the previous one - ignoring the
> genealogical connection. Dr. Cantrell is a not especially well-known
> academic in the field of engineering, who has done research in
> [[photonics]]. Assuming that no-one ever expands his article up to 20,000
> characters (which seems likely), do you propose merging his article into
> another one? Possibly into [[photonics]], or into a new article for the
> research centre he heads? Both of these would require omitting some
> biographical material not directly relevant to his work - we don't
> generally give people's full names, qualifications, and a list of posts
> they hold if we're only mentioning them in the context of a larger
> subject, so information would be lost. What do you propose?
> 
> Oliver