On 5/18/03 12:02 PM, "Daniel Ehrenberg" littledanehren@yahoo.com wrote:
I think we should institute a minimum length for all new stub pages. There are many pages that are only one sentence, but I don't know enough about the topic to add more information. (the one I came across was [[GDM]]). I think we should make a rule that all stubs should be at least three sentences long. That way, we won't have as many really short stubs around. We could build this into the software that there must be three periods (at least) in every entry. To go further, if we really wanted to, we could say that if an entry has no periods (a vandal probably made it) then instead of giving an error message, it would just show the page (once) as if it would look if it were saved but really not save it. Most vandals (not trolls) just write one simple phrase of babble on a non-existant page once, and it is soon deleted, but we could automate this. --LittleDan
I disagree. The stub-length preference allows each user to define what they consider a "minimum" stub. I, for one, believe that a one-sentence stub is better than no information at all. You disagree; the current system offers a non-destructive way of making both of us somewhat happy. A classic compromise.