Thank you, Risker. Measuring article length can be rather meaningless in a hyperlinked medium. :-)
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have a saying on English Wikipedia: "Other stuff exists"[1], which > emphasizes that the importance or significance of one article should not be > judged by comparing it to another article. It is a logical fallacy that, > because one article is longer, or has more references, or better images, > etc., that another article is substandard. > > In this case, the comparison of these two articles shows that the breast > cancer article is very well referenced for its subject using top quality > references; it is well written and covers every aspect of the subject in > depth. There are many daughter articles, as well. > > The Gangnam Style article is loaded with templated charts illustrating > press reaction in dozens of countries, awards won, chart positions in just > about as many - all of which have a large number of references, as each > individual entry must be verifiable. It is not terribly well written, with > little differentiation between significant facts and trivia, and most of > the templated information should probably be broken out into daughter > articles. > > Which is the better article? The breast cancer one, by far. Just because > it's not as long as another article that has far too much trivia in it, > doesn't mean it isn't the superior article. > > Risker/Anne > > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Other_stuff_exists > > On 22 December 2012 12:46, Ole Palnatoke Andersen <o...@palnatoke.org>wrote: > >> My friend Peter just tweeted* "Den engelske wikipedia-artikel om Gangnam >> Style er både længere og har over dobbelt så mange kilder som artiklen om >> brystkræft." ('the English Wikipedia article on Gangnam style is longer and >> has more than twice as many references as the article on breast cancer'). >> >> He's right ** ***. Will someone please make him wrong? >> >> >> TIA, >> Ole >> >> >> *) https://twitter.com/peterbrodersen/status/282539324396953602 >> **) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangnam_Style >> ***) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_cancer >> >> >> -- >> http://palnatoke.org * @palnatoke * +4522934588 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > -- http://palnatoke.org * @palnatoke * +4522934588
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