Brion Vibber wrote:
Unless a better count system is proposed, I will replace the comma check with a greater-than-zero-size check within twelve hours.
I agree with the proposal, but would make the size threshhold a little bigger to deal with those articles which were essentially deleted but have really been left with residual spaces or other junk. Although the shortest article list for English is not available at the moment I did look at this function for the other languages. The longest "article" that I found that way was at "Brakiopodo" in the Esperanto Wikipedia. It contains only 4 hyphens. The shortest article that I found with what could most remotely accepted as content was at 7 in more than one language. This suggests that the greater-than-size check might be set at 4, 5, or 6.
BTW the Esperanto Wikipedia seems to have the greatest number of zero length articles.
Eclecticology