Wikipedia:General overview article
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A general overview article is one that combines summarized content from many specialized articles into one broadly-scoped article. E.g., the general overview article
General overview articles also can be useful for addressing
A general overview article need not always merely take the form of a parent article. It can also take a subset of information, relevant to a certain narrowly-scoped subject matter, from many different articles and combine it into one place for easy reference by the reader. For instance,
General overview articles are better than disambiguation pages in which clearly one meaning is of primary importance/usefulness/interest. Even if the general overview articles starts out in poor quality, the increase in its visibility by replacing the disambiguation page with it may spur improvements in its quality.
Useful general overview articles are not to be deleted per
See also
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Broad-concept_articles (an editing guideline)
- Wikipedia:Broad concept articles(a more specific editing guideline)
- Wikipedia:Main article fixation (another essay, like this one)
- Wikipedia:Summary style (an editing guideline)
- Wikipedia:Splitting (an information page)
- Wikipedia:Vital articles (many of those articles are general overview articles)