[WikiEN-l] What proportion of articles are stubs?

[Charles Matthews]

Stubs and how to handle them seem to be controversial still (or again), 
which is rather surprising given that we have been going nearly a decade 
now. I'd like to ask how many articles still are stubs, by some sensible 
standard?

Points arise from that, clearly. But I'm hearing quite a lot recently 
from the "glass half empty" people. You know, ten short stubs are 
created, and a year later five are still stubby, five are much improved. 
Are we glad to have five new substantial articles, or embarrassed to 
have persistent five stubs? So has this made things proportionately 
better or worse? Discuss.

Charles