On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote: > But completely seriously, a subject that can be exhaustively > covered briefly, is not a stub. Period.
Yes. A stub is a place-holder for a real article. I suspect that the name is by analogy with a stub function in programming, since the people who started Wikipedia included many programmers; a stub in that context is a do-nothing or test-data implementation of a function, created so the project as a whole can be compiled and the parts that aren't the stub can be given some testing. Thus, a stub on Wikipedia is something that's there INSTEAD of the proper article that should be at that location. People create them so they can categorize them, link them in properly, put a few appropriate 'see also', 'external links' and sources, and a talk page, before they have time or other resources to write a real encyclopedia article there. There are plenty of things in the world that everything that should be said about them fits in a paragraph. This doesn't make them not worth an article. -Matt _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
