Justin Cormack wrote:
Fair enough - my though is if we get 10 times as many people on patrol can we use it as a requested articles feed? It might need a process, or even just a feed into requested articles (where the URL could have been dumped). I admit I have stopped looking at new articles now though.
I do occasionally use it as a requested-articles feed, and have written several fairly lengthy articles starting from sub-stubs. Honestly, though, there is no shortage of requested articles, so the link-only articles aren't really providing much of a service---if I wanted to write an article and was not sure on what to write, there is a very lengthy page already on Wikipedia for requested articles. I'm not inclined to allow people who create link-only articles to get their requests somehow automatically moved to the front of the queue just because they're not allowed to be deleted.
Which is to say, I half-agree---if people are so inclined, feel free to turn a sub-stub into a real article. But if not, it's no great loss if it gets deleted. If you feel particularly badly about it, add it to [[Wikipedia:Requested articles]] after you delete it.
-Mark