"Ray Saintonge" <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote in
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Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>The point being that I would expect stub article creation to be pretty
high
>>in new Wikipedias, and to tail off as the
Wikipedia in question comes to
be
seen as more authoritative.
That's a very valid point. That would contribute to an upward trend of
stub ratios with increasing edits, which is exactly what I see for
Wikipedias with less than 20,000 edits, but after that it levels out,
and becomes much less variable. I can't think why.
Perhaps it's the point at which a project becomes more authoritarian
than authoritative. It's where people become concerned that stubs
somehow reflect badly on the project, and they start to delete the stubs
on that basis.
While that may be true, that's not the point I was trying to make. The
issue is not with people deleting stubs so much as people no longer creating
them once the Wikipedia has reached a critical mass. If I search for an
article on en and it doesn't exist, my assumption (unless it's something
very obscure) is that there is a reason it doesn't exist, e.g. it is under
another name, or covered as part of a wider article. If I did anything it
would be to create a redirect to some other article, not to create a stub.
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)