Wikipedia talk:Abundance and redundancy

I don't totally agree. A user like User:172 repeatedly copied the same content from article to article, this was felt by several people (including me) as an abuse. There's a question of measure: suppressing all redundancy is bad, suppressing redundancy for the sake of tweaking the POV of an article is even worse, but copying whole paragraphs from one place to another (perhaps only indirectly related) may also a waste of resources, and here I mean mostly the intellectual resources that are devoted to improving these paragraphs in case they need to be.

This being said, I'm the "culprit" of some factual duplication between Walloon Brabant and Flemish Brabant. I didn't think and don't think that the small amount of duplicated information deserved a third article on its own; and even if it did, repetition there is kept short and doesn't harm.

--FvdP 23:50 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)

I dislike redundancy, and prefer instead summary. So, for example, September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Timeline links to the more detailed timelines of the background, the day, the rest of the month, October, and the aftermath. It doesn't duplicate information in those articles, it summarises them. Martin

Yeah, Martin, but I got reamed once when I tried to re-organize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict page with a header that led to three logical periods of the conflict. Since theres so much there, I thought it would warrant that kind of depth, so each page could contain summaries within to be expanded upon on other articles, like creating a stalk that has branches off of it. 911 was done in a spirit of co-operation though, and theres a big difference. I dont really disagree with either one of you, and it doesnt seem like you disagree with me on the whole either. Is a question of degrees, and I will rephrase that part. Though, some may want to cut this article up and move sections here and there.... :) -Stevert

Yeah well, on Isreal vs Palestine all bets are off... ;-)

global warming is my next project - that'll take a while, though... Martin

Understatement of the century, Dice. Stevert