And that's another problem that I am seeing more and more of. Call it simply being lazy, unable to write actual prose, or a combination thereof; but there are so many articles that get created that have only one (likely unsourced) sentence, a pretty infobox, a pretty navbox, a table, categories, and what other (stub) templates there.
I would claim that infoboxes are the biggest culprit in that they are being substituted for "actual prose". If an article creator only has one actual sentence of prose to put forth, that is not much, and I would claim sheer laziness in the article creator's part. Especially with these stubs on locations, when you cannot provide any more information on a location than what would normally be presented in an organized list or even an atlas or map, one wonders if writing about a location in the form of an encyclopedia article is the most efficient way to go. -MuZemike On 11/29/2010 2:50 PM, Andrew Gray wrote: > On 29 November 2010 20:42, Charles Matthews > <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > >> So does clicking "Random Article" and (gasp) judging for one's own self >> what is a stub produce a figure very different from 50%? > > I hit random and immediately produced a category error :-) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanarce > > One prose sentence! But on the other hand, a demographic table, and a > map, and an infobox, and some statistics, and a navbox. Stub or not > stub? > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l