Wikipedia:Midden

Any Wikipedia article which becomes a midden is no longer very useful to readers.

Signs of this include, but are not limited to:
 * 1) Laundry lists in the body or lede of an article of minor facts or events relating to the main topic of the article.
 * 2) Unreadable sections in any article (see Gunning fog index) which make the article unusable by a large percentage of users.
 * 3) Lists of references which are as long or longer than the article itself.
 * 4) Overcitation, especially where a single word has ten or more number cites attached.
 * 5) Lists of trivia which do not improve the reader's understanding of the article's topic.

The primary aims of Wikipedia are readability, and making topics clearly and accurately presented with a neutral point of view. Each of the situations given above makes those aims less possible in any article.