Talk:Development of Darwin's theory

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This whole article seems to me to suffer from very reductionist premises as to the relation between various socio-political ideas and the development of zoology. --Christofurio 15:09, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

I think you may looking for too much in a biographical article which aims to briefly outline events including pointers to the social and political context in which Darwin developed his theory from the time of his marriage to his involvement with Wallace. It would be welcome if you could add brief points covering the development of zoology at the time, though size of article is a constraint....dave souza 20:30, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Size of article is not a constraint. We can always create more daughter articles, very easily indeed. The only constraints are noteworthiness and verifiability. -Silence 19:38, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. It seems to be about 32 kb, which is getting towards the level the software complains about, but modest compared to many articles. Having said that, rereading Christofurio's note it looks as though the beef was about the premise of Desmond and Moore's book, that Darwin's ideas can be looked at in the context of social and political developments of the time. Well, that's the source. . ..dave souza, talk 20:19, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Note that the 32-kb "limit" is a relic and an arbitrary size suggestion, not a real software limitation. The fact that most Featured Articles are much longer than 32kb shows that longer articles have a better chance of meeting Wikipedia's comprehensiveness standards. However, my comment was a general note about the viability of allowing articles to expand freely when noteworthy new information arises, not a specific response to the requests of Christofurio; I have no opinion on whether that specific information would benefit the article. -Silence 20:45, 28 April 2006 (UTC)