Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/2/17 Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Those sources will give you stubs, will they give
you much more? I
guess it depends on how specific a field guide you have.
Stubs aren't bad things.
Indeed, but there are far more topics that it is easy to write a stub
about than there are topics that it is easy to write a whole article
about.
Erk... this is what we have the template {{notastub}} for.
"A short article is not a stub." Repeat 10 times under your
breath.
<sarcastic aside>
Otherwise, why would the 1975 Encyclopaedia Britannica
Micropaedia article on "Monastery" consist of 12 words?
</sarcastic aside>
But completely seriously, a subject that can be exhaustively
covered briefly, is not a stub. Period.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen