[WikiEN-l] Article size consistency 32k

Fri May 20 20:58:45 UTC 2005

Unless we're living in a world of 56K internet still, I think 32K could
become at least 50K. Even articles on albums by Eminem and so forth are
getting above 32K - Giving that limit is slowly even limiting the growth of
good articles. If an article grows above that it should be allowed to grow,
unless it is obviously repeating itself.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JAY JG" <jayjg at hotmail.com>
To: <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Article size consistency 32k


> >As it happens, some (including me) think it's a
> >good recommended maximum length for an article for readability - there
> >should be a compelling reason to go over six thousand words. But
> >considerations like 172's (subject requires it, article is really good)
> >still get past. So if the Germany article should get by even being over
> >32k, the nominator would probably have to convince people the subject
> >required it for proper coverage. (Which I can well see being likely.)
>
> In this case, the issue is more complex than just the 32k limit.
> Regardless, and without getting into extreme detail, brevity is being
> strongly encouraged on the article, which is already well over 32K, and
> seems to be getting larger with every edit.  The argument from the person
> most strongly arguing against limiting the size seems to me to mostly be
> "These are facts, and the United States article is even bigger, that's not
> fair".
>
> Jay.
>
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