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This fractal represents the vast potential that can be realized with cogent structure.

While Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, it is not static—it is a wiki, constantly changing.

We should therefore write not only with present readers in mind, but with future editors; greater structure helps on both counts. (For example, adding section headings makes it easier to find information in an article, and easier for other editors to add information to the article without sacrificing readability.)

Our motto: Making space for data.

Tenets

  • We support well-enumerated structure at every level of Wikimedia.
  • Information that's useless when isolated (or when "thrown into a pile" of undifferentiated information) can become illuminating when made part of a logical structure.
  • However, we discourage merging of articles with "non-redundant" content. Combining too much information in a single article discourages users from forging ahead with more detail and new ways of looking at the topic at hand.
  • We support short sections, paragraphs, and sentences for the reasons listed in the previous item, and also because the web imposes its own reading constraints. [1]
  • We frown upon excessive deletion. Nascent stubs or sentences may contain ideas that through grooming and structuring have the potential to grow into cogent, informative articles.

A Third Way

Structurism is like Mergism in that it exists outside the inclusionism/deletionism debate, or tries to provide a solution to that debate. However, Structurism is also broadly opposed to Mergism because merged articles can be wearyingly long and provide little breathing room for future expansion.

Structurism in Practice

Link to edits (yours or someone else's) that have improved the structure of an article (or of wikipedia as a whole).

Useful tools

Members

If you want to join the structurists, add your name:

  • I was looking for some people with such ideas. A long time ago I realized that I am often tired by trying to get just the quick info or some particular detail information in macropedic articles in en:. (I suppose macropedic articles should always have a 3 tiered structure of information depth. 1-The definition. 2-Overview PARAGRAPH with short abstract of all/most important information. 3-more structured text.) And I also like all the others tenets, particulary the third one (disc. merging). Reo On 14:11, 9 February 2006 (UTC)reply
  • Draxle 09:27, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Sounds great (I love organization), but the Association of (a) Wikipedia Sectionalist(s) proposal on the talk page seems a bit extreme : ) jc37 05:44, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
  • I am happy to contribute. younilha 21:59, 20 Febuary 2007 (UTC)

Promotion and User box

Use this template to promote and show your affiliation with this association:

Add {{User structurist}} to your user page to create this box:

This user is a member of the Association of Structurist Wikipedians.


Put it your Babel user box like so: {{babel-2|en|structurist}}

See also


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