[Wikipedia-l] Monolithic articles vs parents and daughters

Fri Dec 19 19:03:21 UTC 2003

Daniel-
> I just want to clarify my statement that it is best to divide topics into
> digestible bits. I think this should only be considered for most articles
> once they reach the 20 KB (minus markup) size and the resulting daughter
> articles are not stubs. Although some articles demand a larger size just to
> summarize all the main points and clearly link to daughters that have move
> detail on each of those points.

I agree with you, except for the 20K ;-). I hope we can formulate a  
standard policy for this.

Regards,

Erik