Nathan wrote:
How does simply having what is basically a placeholder entry for each town/village/city etc. alleviate systemic bias? Most of these articles will be ignored completely after creation, while those that are expanded and improved will reflect the factors that led to systemic bias in content initially.
It certainly can't _hurt_ systemic bias. Having a stub will allow people to start editing on the subject more easily, especially anonymous editors. And even if the aritcle's ignored after creation, at least we'll have _something_ on that subject.