Wikipedia talk:Depth

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[edit] Merge

What is the difference between this and Wikipedia:Importance? IMHO they try to do the same thing, so they should be merged. ··gracefool |☺ 03:35, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The difference is subtle but is this, (and please help trying to compare it):

• An article is important if it is well, wiktionary:important, has sufficient merit as an article.
• An article has depth if we already have articles one level above it in the hierachical classification.

Now, an article may have both depth and importance (great). However it may have depth but lack importance (i.e. fancruft), it be important but lack depth (actually that is a good point where importance overrides depth?). If is is unimportant and lacks depth then it should go! See the following table:

		Importance
		Yes	No
Depth	Yes	Great	Fancruft
	No	Expand me!	Delete
Dunc|☺ 12:40, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)