[WikiEN-l] Article size consistency 32k

James D. Forrester james at jdforrester.org
Fri May 20 22:31:07 UTC 2005


On Friday, May 20, 2005 10:38 PM, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> More condensed treatments should be available to serve those readers
> while at the same time links to related articles can provide the detail
> for those who need that. By 'more condensed' I mean articles that are in
> the size range of a normal college term paper (10-15 printed 8.5x11 pages
> of prose with standard font).

After brief discussion over this in IRC, this would apparently be
approximately 2500 to 3500 words or so, without formatting, or about 9-14
pages of A4 (judging by total area according to
http://www.betweenborders.com/a4/ so this might be a bit off).

HTH for others who weren't... blessed by an American education. :-)

Yours,
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