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Regards, — Sj+ • 2005-08-12 20:05

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[edit] Thank you for pointing this out. I've analyzed your data...

  • Here's a reprint of your post on my page -in the little box thing, and my reply. Thank you for pointing this out. I've analyzed your data below:

Terri Schiavo and World War I

Hi Gordon, I realize that an article on a person's life history is a bit different than one for WWI, but I figured that the WWI article (a featured article, BTW) might be a good example of how extremely complex subject matter can be comprehensive yet not overwhelming, through the use of a few (but not too many) sub-articles. FWIW, I thought everything through "Petition to Remove Feeding Tube" was very good and needs very few changes -- it's from "...Schiavo I" forward that I got lost. Also, since I'm here, I think the page numbers of the references you (or the collective you, since I'm not sure who did this) used belong where the other references are at the bottom - it's almost redundant as is since there are footnotes pointing to the source anyway, and it messes with the word flow. Good luck, I think it would be really cool to have it as an FA, and I hope to vote support in the near future. Have a good weekend. justsomechick·chat·stuff 19:40, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, the "scroll bars" for both articles looked about the same, with Terri's scroll bar actually being a tad longer, hinting that her word count is less. Hold on a sec, whilst I ask Microsoft WOKKS Word processor for a word count.
  • WWI is: 9493, not counting the “Wiki” text unrelated to the article WWI is 9652 total words on page. (There were 159 extra "wiki advertisement links, like the stuff on the top row and left column.)
  • Terri Schiavo is: 10,978, not counting "wiki text" comments/links, etc., like above, and is 11,091, total. (There were 113 "non-Schiavo" words, as above.)
OK, good point, but all said and done, Terri's article is not even fifteen-percent (15%) larger. No big deal. Next concern...?

(Gordon's math notepad: 11,092 / 9,652 = 1.14908827186 = 114.9% = 14.9% increase < 15% increase = Good!)

--GordonWattsDotCom 09:43, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
  • ADDITIONAL COMMENTS on Just Some Chick's POST:
  • "through the use of a few (but not too many) sub-articles." Already covered. We have several sub-articles at present time. "FWIW, I thought everything through "Petition to Remove Feeding Tube" was very good and needs very few changes" A collective "Thank you" to you! "it's from "...Schiavo I" forward that I got lost." Sorry. It happens to the best of us, if we've been reading and get fatigue. "Also, since I'm here, I think the page numbers of the references you (or the collective you, since I'm not sure who did this) used belong where the other references are at the bottom - it's almost redundant as is since there are footnotes pointing to the source anyway, and it messes with the word flow." Well, I am the one who did that, and some feel that page numbers are needed at each juncture, so putting them at the bottom may be worse, since there are several sentences for each reference-note at the bottom, and each sentence may have a different page number -but that is just my opinion on the style used. I like it for how it "verifies" the page number too! "Good luck, I think it would be really cool to have it as an FA, and I hope to vote support in the near future." Thanks. "Have a good weekend." And you too and the other editors here as well.--GordonWattsDotCom 10:24, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
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