2008/4/29 Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@hotmail.co.uk:
Not really. If an article's always going to be a stub, there's no point having it all.
I disagree that a BLP is ever "always" going to be a stub - in this specific case, many union leaders go into politics; at the least, he may turn into another [[Bob Crow]].
Our inability to predict the future extends to other categories of article, too. For instance, before 1st August 2007, many might have said that [[I-35W Mississippi River bridge]] was "always going to be a stub". Having it existing as a stub probably helped editors build it up when it became somewhat more notable than it previously had been.