2009/2/16  <[email protected]>:
> Another example is that the vast majority of our articles on US
> Counties have next to nothing about the county history.  That is, when
> was the county formed? What land was it formed out of? Did the
> boundaries change over time? What was the first city laid out?  Who
> were the first few documentation-attested inhabitants?
>
> Most of our county articles are just current demographics and
> geographical information.  So not only is there a lot of room for new
> articles, but there is a lot of room for expanding current articles.
>
> In addition a lot of biographical articles on say medieval people are
> just skeletons showing how they fit into a certain family, with next to
> nothing about their own life and accomplishments.

Oh, absolutely. 5 years is an estimate for when we'll be done creating
new articles, it will be a long time after that before we're done
enlarging existing articles.

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