On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:57 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/9/24 Carcharoth <[email protected]>: > >> He said sections, not articles. WP:UNDUE applies within articles. >> Whether a version of WP:UNDUE should apply across the whole >> encyclopedia is essentially the question of notability repackaged. And >> when you spin sections out of existing articles to form new articles, >> then WP:UNDUE clashes with WP:NOTABILITY (expand a section - you may >> be unbalancing the article; spin off section to form a new article - >> you may be unbalancing the encyclopedia). > > That's a view of the project that comes from an immature understanding > of it. Unbalancing an article is all visible on the same page; > however, three million Simpsons articles is *invisible* to the readers > of articles on particle physics unless they specifically go looking > for them. It actually doesn't affect them at all.
Yeah. I know that. Some people at AfD don't know that. > Back in the early days of the odious origins of the jargon word > "notability", back when it was a buzzword on VFD meaning "I haven't > heard of it," people would raise this as one of the spurious arguments > that made no sense on a moment's reflection. Like the one that too > much text would overload the servers, so the okemon articls had to go. > > Please don't say this stuff without at least a moment's thought on > whether it actually makes any sense. I do try. Hint: this was about summary style spin-off articles, and where the line is drawn there. Not about notability in general. Replace references to notability above with WP:SUMMARY, and it might calm you down. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
