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That Special:LongPages list is a perfect example of Wikipedia's biggest weakness, in that crowdsourcing is a bad way to do curation. Ideally, the length of an
by InitialLastName 6y ago
That Special:LongPages list is a perfect example of Wikipedia's biggest weakness, in that crowdsourcing is a bad way to do curation.
Ideally, the length of an encyclopedia's article about a subject would be proportional to the subject's importance and to the amount of information available to the subject, not proportional to the contentiousness, propaganda value, or recency bias of that article.
- carstenhag 6y agoOn the contrary, it's probably on of its benefits: You can add as much as is relevant and provides information. After all, importance and relevancy is subjective and why would you need to remove 5000 words if someone wrote it and it provides value?