--- The Cunctator cunctator@kband.com wrote:
On 5/18/03 12:02 PM, "Daniel Ehrenberg" littledanehren@yahoo.com wrote:
I think we should institute a minimum length for
all
new stub pages. There are many pages that are only
one
sentence, but I don't know enough about the topic
to
add more information. (the one I came across was [[GDM]]). I think we should make a rule that all
stubs
should be at least three sentences long. That way,
we
won't have as many really short stubs around. We
could
build this into the software that there must be
three
periods (at least) in every entry. To go further,
if
we really wanted to, we could say that if an entry
has
no periods (a vandal probably made it) then
instead of
giving an error message, it would just show the
page
(once) as if it would look if it were saved but
really
not save it. Most vandals (not trolls) just write
one
simple phrase of babble on a non-existant page
once,
and it is soon deleted, but we could automate
this.
--LittleDan
I disagree. The stub-length preference allows each user to define what they consider a "minimum" stub. I, for one, believe that a one-sentence stub is better than no information at all. You disagree; the current system offers a non-destructive way of making both of us somewhat happy. A classic compromise.
How about this: The convention is that a stub *should* have at least 3 sentences, but if that is impossible, then one or two will have to do, but there would be no software changes --LittleDan
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