2009/2/22 Charles Matthews <[email protected]>: > Thomas Dalton wrote: >> If there is only one noteworthy fact about the subject, the article >> should probably be merged per BLP1E. If there isn't more than a >> paragraph worth of stuff to say about a subject, you need to think >> long and hard about whether there should be an article. In some cases, >> there probably should, but I think it most cases such a lack of >> information is a sign that the article should be deleted or merged. >> > This is certainly not the case in, for example, medieval history. It's > all relative to a background: what expectation is there of ample factual > material? > > And another thing - I'd resist this in all cases where there was a place > for a person in a line of succession boxes. It is really no good merging > an article if it messes up some useful navigation.
Sure, like I said, there will be cases where it is appropriate. I think those cases are quite rare, though. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
