Roger Luethi wrote:
However, short articles do get put up for deletion
regularly based on that
criterion.
The respective German guidelines are indeed written in
a fairly similar
spirit to the English ones. They don't seem to advocate the deletion of
small stubs. But the folks who frequent [[de:Wikipedia:Löschkandidaten]]
tend to have a different view.
Annoyingly, it's true that a few users at de: seem to do nothing else then filing
requests for deletion. I don't ignore that fact. One even picked the user name
"Löschantrag" (='request for deletion') but is on the verge of being
blocked AFAIK. What I wanted to point out is that these outrages by no means reflect the
spirit of the German WP. The community is aware of the "Löschwahn" a few people
have fallen prey to and the way they can harm the project e. g. by daunting off newcomers
writing their first article.
Btw, I have written about 80 stubs for de: (and expanded most of them to full-size
articles by now!) and only got one rfd ever and that one was pretty well justified. My
experience: as long as your stubs contain the very basic facts about the subject
("where?", "who?", "when?", "why?")
they are 100% delete-o-maniac-proof.
Regards,
Boris
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