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I don't have word count tool on my phone, but does it strike others as strange that there's a 1000+ word wikipedia page about a 4,500-word article?

• sigstoat 4y ago
  the declaration of independence is ~1300 words. a half-assed attempt at counting the words in the article (minus of the copy of the declaration that it contains) comes up with about ~10900 words. is that strange? what ratio isn't strange?
  • notahacker 4y ago
    tbf the Declaration of Independence was a nation-defining historical event, a collaboration involving a lot of people, and text which has shaped a couple of centuries of American law. Disneyland with the Death Penalty is a pretty self-explanatory magazine article which has somehow ended up with a more detailed summary than many of Gibson's novels. Only on Wikipedia would that sort of prioritisation be normal.
    • sigstoat 4y ago
      > Only on Wikipedia would that sort of prioritisation be normal. perhaps if you addressed your concerns to their prioritization committee, you could effect some change.
• noah_buddy 4y ago
  You think that’s bad? Check out the article for the Gettysburg Address (272 words).