I would rather the policy was not changed. Most people
can see
that a short but important article could be expanded. I think
the articles show up on the stub list anyway for folks to work
on. Basically the change means that other peoples work is to be
thrown away.
I think you misundertand. He isn't talking about deleting
stubs. He's talking about deleting articles with NO content
at all, so there's no "work" to throw away. And I'm entirely
on Toby's side--no article at all is much better than an article
with no content.