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Since one can link from page to page to page, how long should the ideal Wikipedia article be? A good rule of thumb would be fewer than 5000 words, unless the subject really, really needs much exposition. However, for a subject that is that complex, one can link several shorter articles together, using a hub page to tie all articles together.<br>For example:<br>Foo<br>History of Foo<br>Physical Description of Foo<br>Relationship with Bar<br>Modern Cultural Icons and Foo<br>Foo and You: Making it work in the long run<br>Minimum Foo-Tree, the Gidsy-David Algorithm.<br>If you write one long article, you will need new headlines anyway. If you write a long paragraph, then you need to add new linebreaks. The structure of Wikipedia is a web, instead of a text that you read linearly.<br><br> | Since one can link from page to page to page, how long should the ideal Wikipedia article be? A good rule of thumb would be fewer than 5000 words, unless the subject really, really needs much exposition. However, for a subject that is that complex, one can link several shorter articles together, using a hub page to tie all articles together.<br>For example:<br>Foo<br>History of Foo<br>Physical Description of Foo<br>Relationship with Bar<br>Modern Cultural Icons and Foo<br>Foo and You: Making it work in the long run<br>Minimum Foo-Tree, the Gidsy-David Algorithm.<br>If you write one long article, you will need new headlines anyway. If you write a long paragraph, then you need to add new linebreaks. The structure of Wikipedia is a web, instead of a text that you read linearly.<br><br> | ||
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