Memory Beta talk:The perfect article

"[The perfect article] is long. Brevity may be the soul of wit, but long articles are considered better because they can cover the given topic much more thoroughly. This may not be possible for all articles, of course, because information may not be available for all aspects of the subject. However, where such information is available, it should always be included."

Sez who??? First off, just because an article is long, it doesn't mean it thoroughly covers its topic. (And conversely, just because an article is short, that doesn't mean it doesn't.) More often than not, the long articles I find here are unfocused and bloated with information that actually belongs in a whole separate article. For instance, before I edited it earlier today, the article on the British monarchy mentioned King Henry V, went on to mention Shakespeare's play, and then went on to summarize Data's performance of the play on the holodeck, and Picard's reaction to that performance. The perfect article, IMHO, it only as long as it needs to be, no matter how short. --Seventy 01:16, 5 August 2007 (UTC)