2009/2/22 Ben Kovitz <[email protected]>: > IMO, making an article "not a stub" by padding it with trivialities > does not make the article better. It clutters Wikipedia and distracts > from the genuinely important content. A one-paragraph article that > crisply tells the noteworthy fact or two about its subject can be an > excellent article. > > Is there any controversy about that? Or are those trivial facts > getting in not because of stub tags but just because lots of people > love to pad?
If there is only one noteworthy fact about the subject, the article should probably be merged per BLP1E. If there isn't more than a paragraph worth of stuff to say about a subject, you need to think long and hard about whether there should be an article. In some cases, there probably should, but I think it most cases such a lack of information is a sign that the article should be deleted or merged. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
