[WikiEN-l] On merging and speedies

Thu Sep 15 18:57:27 UTC 2005

On 9/15/05, f crdfa <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:

> It did not explain what FTSE meant, but it did adequately describe the
> index. I must confess that the title looks like gobbledygook to me so
> subjectively I feel that none of the information can be figured out from the
> title by the average non-specialist reader.

Not an expert and I've never studief the area but could get everyhting
from the title. wikipedia is not a dictionary

> I've had arguments with geogre over this. He apparently thinks that "The Old
> Man that the Sea is a book by Ernest Hemingway" would a substub because,
> being an academic, he thinks everybody knows the book. I take what I think
> is a more realistic approach: it's a clearly inadequate stub but it does
> give useful information that someone unfamiliar with American literature
> would surely not know. I checked this on my family. My wife knows the title
> and associates it with Hemingway. My children, both in their late teens, had
> never heard of it and couldn't even hazard a guess about what it might be.
> To them the information in geogre's "substub" would be incomplete but
> useful.

perhaps but consider if a follow a link to it hopeing for a real
amount of information I'm not going to be best pleased.

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geni