[WikiEN-l] What en:wp would look like printed out

[Wily D]

David

I'm not saying you should necessarily work on the article until it meets GA
standards - but you could easily write a stub in ~30 seconds of the quality
I moved the Haitian election article to.  It seems silly to propose deleting
such a worthwhile topic.

WilyD

On 9/4/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Correction--it does show the presidential result. I think that does
> make sense, and that such a stub is acceptable. (I note the original
> version entered did not have the box).
>
> On 9/4/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think it is better not to have such a completely empty article
> > especially as one of a series, because if it is not there it will show
> > up as a red link in the Haitian elections infobox at the bottom, thus
> > making it clear that there is an article that still needs to be
> > written.
> > I do not think it helps the encyclopedia for people to turn to an
> > article and find no information at all. (Though I think in a case like
> > this they might realize that its a series under construction). At the
> > very least, it could have shown the result for President!
> >
> >
> > On 9/4/07, SPUI <drspui at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > John Lee wrote:
> > > > If you ask me, "no context" is a ridiculous reason to tag substubs
> for
> > > > deletion, unless they are really incomprehensible. I usually let
> people know
> > > > that this isn't such a bright idea after I remove the tag; they
> usually
> > > > don't complain, which to me indicates they were probably gold mining
> and/or
> > > > are overenthusiastic "contributors".
> > >
> > >
> > > If you don't delete they get the tagging to add to their edit count.
> > >
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