[WikiEN-l] On speedying "halfway decent stubs"

[Guettarda]

On 9/15/05, Tony Sidaway <minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:
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> Phroziac wrote:
> 
> 
> "They're halfway decent stubs, but we really don't need a lot of one
> line articles, and we probably really didn't loose anything by
> deleting them."
> 
> 
> We probably should not be speedying "halfway decent stubs". Speedy
> deletion is supposedly for complete junk, stuff that cannot be salvaged by
> editing because it shouldn't be on Wikipedia in the first place. Thanks
> for undeleting the Alberta lake one.


The very thought of speedying a halfway decent stub strikes me as both a 
very bad idea, and very dangerous to the encyclopaedia. How many featured 
articles started out as stubs?