Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia where anyone can find different kind of information about different things such as biographies, information about different devices.
While writing an article in this encyclopedia, there are several rules about to follow. First of all, those who want to write an article have to follow an outline which devides each part that the article is supposed to have. To do this, you can devide the article in different parts such as life if it is a biography, work, overview, uses, see also, external links and references.
As a student of human language technologies, I have been given some examples of these outlines to follow. So, looking at these four examples, I may say that the second one (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pattern_recognition&oldid=281282782) is the one that I consider the best. The simplicity of it is what lead me to think that way, an outline for an article can’t be unclear and confusing, so, having a long planning can lead people to misunderstandings and mixing up information.
Another thing to point out is the length given to the writing, the result of a long planning will be a long article which is not the first aim of the article. It has to be entertaining but brief, it may not exceed the 300 words more or less, that’s why the more simple the outline is the most interesting the writing will be.
References:
*Pattern recognition. (2009, April 2). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 10:15, May 25, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pattern_recognition&oldid=281282782
