All, The constables are going to delete some stubs systematically. Read on if you fear for your own stub!
The history of stub hatred goes back to the early days of Wikipedia. Some people like them because they think the lowliest stub can grow into something great. But, in my opinion, stubs under 50 words or so (including words in templates and headings) rarely have any reason to live. One reason not to tolerate such short "articles" is that they "scratch the itch" to write something on the topic. Their existence does not encourage people to write more; it discourages them. Another reason is that allowing such short items to exist encourages people to do slap-dash, careless work, which (I maintain) is what stubs usually are. There are, occasionally, exceptions. Perhaps this is one: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Nasorostral_scale And maybe a picture is worth a thousand words: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky But most of the stubs under 50 words, which is about the first 90 here http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:Shortpages are quite deletable. Now, if you disagree, I hope you'll either save those stubs to your user page for later development, or perhaps expand them now so there's no question. Or, if you are just lazy, you can place a notice on the talk page saying "Don't delete this please, I'll develop it real soon now, I promise." Let's say we'll feel free clear out the really egregious stubs beginning Monday. --Larry _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
