Dear Deadly Assassin (rather apt title if you want to Assassinate everything I wrote so fast) ...  
 Please leave this for a bit longer (today being 19th Jan 2009) - I am nursing a legally blind mother, and digging out references is time consuming it can't all be done in one grand hit - it seemed better to write what I knew for a FACT - discuss with others, and then gradually work in the many references that I know exist (but do not always have to hand) - I feel (as a professional historian reading some of these WIKI policies), that there is here an overly strict application of a rule that PUBLISHED sources need to be used, this has a somewhat uncritical implication that these are somehow the only reliable sources - but we all know that that is not true. Look at Autobiographies by politicians, etc.! Apart from those I could cite all sorts of publ. material that is self-serving, or plain ignorant (look at newspapers where quotes are made up ... yes, it has happened to me!). Also do not forget that MEMORY based "History" is increasingly seen as normal and professionally acceptable in university circles (as long as it is from some participant/observer - the view that such material is by definition so flawed as to be useless is not tenable given published Autobiogs., Diaries, Letters, etc., also often push certain lines to suit their authors. I have a PhD in history, have lectured and run courses at three universities, and have written for the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography," "Dict. of Labour Biog" (UK), as well as elsewhere in WIKI (in several revisions of existing articles), articles & reviews for academic journals, and references - so I am not some fan time waster. Unlike that parts written by someone unknown in the previously existing material on "DW in Australia" which was woefully inadequate, and in several places inaccurate - but I note THAT item has not been deleted. As far as length goes, I think there is a good case for more SHORT specific articles like these as the "search" engine is not very effective since it seems to only search through the ARTICLE titles, and is too precise re phrasing of search items and is case-sensitive e.g. "DW fandom" won't come up if I type "DW Fandom" - (F not f) - many people may type a CAP either intentionally or in error - if it was NOT case-sensitive it would be a more effective tool.