[Wikipedia-l] Stub detector

[Daniel Mayer]

On Friday 27 September 2002 10:47 am, you wrote:
> But please make the default setting say 250 chars. This will find the
> most gratuitous stubs, without affecting many real articles.
>
> Neil

250 is way too low to be at all useful and can never be consider to be 
anything other than (at most) a definition. At 500 chars there is far more 
space to actually start having encyclopedia articles.

Compare;
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnational_entity   250 chars

With;
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecale 500 chars

The first is just a definition, but the second actually has a definition 
/and/ some encyclopedic information.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)