QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Wed 12th May 2010, 8:54am)
Yet another example of the profound idiocy of "crowdsourcing" encyclopedia articles.
You have the WP bio of
Hans Bethe, legendary atomic scientist, Nobel winner.
8 notes, 3 references, total length 27034 bytes.
And you have the WP bio of a
fictional scientist on a sitcom,
Sheldon Cooper of
The Big Bang Theory.
75 references, total length 43670 bytes.
And no doubt, many of the Wiki-assholes reading this will go "that's perfectly acceptable".
No one would think that's "acceptable" per se. The difference lies in how we see the problem. When I see a contrast like this, I think: "Oh, that's no good; that article on Hans Bethe needs to be a lot better." But I suspect you're thinking along different lines: "Oh, that's no good; that article on Sheldon Cooper needs to be a lot shorter."
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