Short answer: I think we have made a step in the right direction by getting five decently-expanded articles as a result of ten stubs. However, what about the ones that cannot be expanded? That leads to my "long answer" below:
It depends on the expandability of the remaining stubs. Are they able to be expanded via reliable sources to a decently-sized encyclopedia article? One thing I have observed about the creation of stubs (besides from newcomers, which normally they are "hit or miss" on expandability due to their relative lack of experience with WP or with wikis in general), this is assumption or even prediction that 'they can possibly be expanded' or 'they might be some sources out there'. I would generally find such a premise behind stub-creation as unsatisfactory content creation/expansion; however, I come from a belief that Wikipedia's focus should be on the amount of raw, sourced content as opposed to the raw number of articles that can be created. To put in a more concrete way, any given Wikipedia article is not precisely '1 unit of knowledge' (Google Knol can sue me later for ripping off their terminology); that is, our article on "Abraham Lincoln" contains much more verifiable information than, say, "Venezuela at the 2010 Pan American Games". -MuZemike On 11/29/2010 11:33 AM, Charles Matthews wrote: > Stubs and how to handle them seem to be controversial still (or again), > which is rather surprising given that we have been going nearly a decade > now. I'd like to ask how many articles still are stubs, by some sensible > standard? > > Points arise from that, clearly. But I'm hearing quite a lot recently > from the "glass half empty" people. You know, ten short stubs are > created, and a year later five are still stubby, five are much improved. > Are we glad to have five new substantial articles, or embarrassed to > have persistent five stubs? So has this made things proportionately > better or worse? Discuss. > > Charles > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l