Bryan Derksen wrote:
I think Wikipedia would be better served by having edit links pointing to an empty page, rather than misleading people into thinking there's some kind of useful information there.
Maybe each article could be assigned points from 0 (doesn't exist), 1 (very short stub), 2 (20 words or a single comma), up to 5 (brilliant prose). Then each user could set a threshold so only links pointing to 3 or more are rendered as links. This would allow stubs for people who are involved in writing articles while hiding them from people who just want to browse. (This is an idea from the design of Slashdot.)