G'day Charles, > Steve Bennett wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Andrew Gray wrote: > >> I have, interestingly, been noticing it moving in exactly the opposite > > direction; articles with a couple of paragraphs of text, a reference > >> or two, an image or an infobox, being marked as "stubs". There's > >> standards inflation at both ends of the rating system... > > > > IMHO, this kind of thing is one of Wikipedia's greatest failings. We > > still can't even agree on a definition of things like "stub", and it > > seems to be in everyone's interest not to. People like stuff like that > > being subjective. > > > > (FWIW, I think it's reasonable to have "stub" be relative to the > > expected content. Two paragraphs on a country would clearly be a > > "stub". Two paragraphs on an obscure medieval scribe might be the most > > comprehensive resource possible.) > > > The stub business goes back almost forever, though. And the affection > for grey areas is not the dominant trend: there are people who seem to > have the MoS and its pickier points as bedtime reading. There has always > been an adequate definition of stub, which relates to the idea that the > article as stands has serious missing information, so is incomplete in > an essential way. So Steve's FWIW is correct (no, I haven't looked up to > see whether some genius has changed the definition of stub). I've never > taken much notice of what is and isn't denominated a stub.
In fact (and to return to the original topic ;)), I would argue that Steve's comprehensive two-paragraph article on an obscure-but-important mediaeval scribe could even be considered a Featured Article, if it was Pure Awesome in all other respects. But, thanks to feature creep ... * '''Oppose''', too short ~~~~ -- Mark Gallagher 0439 704 975 http://formonelane.net/ "Even potatoes have their bad days, Igor." --- Count Duckula _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l