Ed Poor wrote
If we mark articles as bad or stub, we could keep them somewhat hidden from the public.
Ah, the insidious plausibility of the worst ideas!
The default must be that we keep the stubs in view, unless people somehow opt otherwise. How else are we going to get the encyclopedia written? I thought there was anyway consensus that the content took priority over all else, including impressing people with excessively tidy minds.
Charles