Wikipedia is still young; we can expect quite a lot of embarassing stubs so far because there's so much work ahead of us still. I'm not discouraged about it because I think it's a realistic expectation that we /will/ have many stubs with less than 2 years of contributions logged. Personally, I'm not thinking so much of immediate gratification: I expect stubs, and so I'm pleasantly surprised when I run across an article that's informative and nearly complete. I think it just takes time and diligent effort.

This is the Great Wall of China of encyclopedias we're building here, and I'm content to add a layer here, patch up the mortar there, and help cart bricks over there. Personally, I expect to be quite proud of wikipedia and my contributions to it by the time I'm 50 (I'm 27). I don't expect to be proud of wikipedia tomorrow, except as a proof of concept and a thumbing of the nose to copyright.

kq

Ed Wrote:

It seems to me we are trying to impove the number and quality

of our articles, merely by making a policy:

1. All articles will be brilliant prose.
2. No useless stubs!

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Our problem is not "stub policy". We just don't have enough

contributors.