` : Whoever ``this author`` is you do not make much sense: :: ENCYCLOPEDIC: Wikipedia is supposed to be (and is!) the encyclopedia. It is not a superficial encyclopedia to elementary school pupils. You ideas about ``encyclopedic`` are really funny. See for example other major technical/scientific articles like Calculus and General relativity. Do you suggest to make them shorter and remove there technical material that you may not understand? By your criteria for ``encyclopedic`` both Wikipedia and others like Encyclopedia Britannica with probably shrink by at least 50%. ::TEXTBOOK - This article is roughly 100K char long. Have you seen any database textbook? I know a few and they are larger in orders of magnitude! Typically hundreds of pages long. So, what are you talking about?    `