europeforvisitors - 3:34 am on Apr 11, 2006 (gmt 0)

I think articles should be as long as they need to be! :)

My sentiments exactly.

In my sector (travel), there are thousands of sites that offer very little information on the topics they cover. A "destination guide" to a city like Paris, Venice, or New York might be only a few pages long, or it might consist of a single page. The reader who's planning a trip to one of those cities won't be satisfied when he encounters 500 to 1,500 words, and he probably won't return to the site.