In the sports Wikimedia world, does the sheer word count equate to importance in the Internet media world?

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President George W. Bush and Laura Bush present the National Medal of Arts award to Vincent Scully in 2004.

It struck us the other day about how some entries on Wikipedia -- accuracy aside -- were more chock full 'o facts, antedotes and dates than others.

So, minus captions, tables of content, edit links, references and external links:

== If an alert came over the wire services that said "Obit-VinScully," would Dodgers Hall of Fame play-by-play man Vincent Edward Scully (2,807 words on his Wikipedia entry) ever be confused with influential architectural teacher Vincent Joseph Scully Jr. (481 words) -- seven years his senior, and whose "lectures at Yale were known to attract casual visitors and packed houses, and regularly received standing ovations?"

== Who's more qualified to replace Scully someday in the Dodgers booth: Matt Vasgersian (1,016 words), Charley Steiner (1,208), Dan Shulman (497) or Pete Arbogast (page was deleted in 2008)?

(As for that last reference, user MZMcBride explains: "He was O.K. at the beginning. He rebuilt all the roads, honey. You know that, right? He just went too far.")

== Hockey Hall of Fame play-by-play man Bob Miller (443 words) is three quarters behind on the play than newly inducted Baseball Hall of Fame play-by-play man Jon Miller (1,671)?

== Bob Costas (a 3,775-word entry) is nearly four times more important than his boss at NBC, Dick Ebersol (971)? And more relevant in baseball than Bud Selig (3,147)? Or does the entry need additional citations for verification?

== Why was Al Michaels (4,476 words) just the daytime host for NBC during the 2010 Winter Games from Vancouver, while Costas was the prime-time guy?

== is Fox play-by-play man Joe Buck (2,070 words) at least considered half the man his father was -- Hall of Fame broadcaster Jack Buck (3,589)? Or should lists of miscellaneous information really be avoided?

== Whose so-called "trademarked" expression of "Holy Cow" meant more, Harry Caray's (3,262 words) or Phil Rizzuto's (6,053 words)?

== Even if the Celtics beat the Lakers in nine of the 12 meetings for the NBA Finals over the years, did the late Chick Hearn (2,474 words), who died eight years ago Thursday, have a bigger impact in the NBA and on the rivalry than the late Boston Celtics play-by-play man Johnny Most (1,270)?

To be continued ...