On 9/16/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
One sentence is not a stub but a substub.
I'll have to politely disagree with you there. The thing that makes a stub useful is the informational content, not how many full stops it contains.
"John Lennon (1940-1980), a Liverpool-born songwriter, singer and guitarist, and sometime political campaigner, with Paul McCartney formed the core songwriting team of The Beatles and later achieved considerable success as a solo artist."
It's far from telling you everything there is to know about John Lennon--for instance it misses out the assassination because this would overload the stub and focus overmuch attention on the manner of Lennon's death. It tells you nothing of his checkered personal life or the creative hiatus of the late seventies. But I contend that it's a useful stub.
Actually looking at the current overblown version of the John Lennon article, with its stilted "leading [rock music] towards more serious and political messages" and overambitious classification of Lennon as an "artist, actor and author", I think I prefer the stub. A biography must not be left solely to the fans! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing