I suppose that Silver Seren is talking about edits like
this one, that cut lots of peripheral info from an article.
However, after a few years, the article
seems to just get as detailed and long and filled with peripheral content as it was before the cut.
Look, I'm not one to complain about the length of Wikipedia articles. I just think it's unfair to defend the "not a newspaper" rule and to claim that most over-stuffed articles will eventually get culled down, because I don't think either position is viable in practice.