On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote:

<snip>

> Yes, but once you're using one source to find other sources and
> hunting for them, you're not really in the realms of low-hanging
> fruit.

Some of the so-called low-hanging fruit are articles that have never
been in that good condition, even now, or that still have great
potential for expansion or reorganisation (even if a lot of the detail
is in related articles, accessible via links). I'll try and find a few
examples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky

Compare that to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil

...which is quite good.

The surgery article is interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgery

...but quite why there are 15 templates at the bottom of the article,
I don't know.

Something that looks OK at first glance, but less so when you look closer, is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass

Another article that is in a "hodge-podge" state is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging

If these all count as low-hanging fruit, they may have been picked,
but they haven't really ripened yet. Part of the trouble is that truly
general, overview articles are: (a) difficult to write well; and (b)
experts tend to prefer to write more limited, specialised articles.
Sometimes the subsidiary articles need to be written to a good level
before the general article can be tackled. Sometimes it is the other
way round.

Carcharoth

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