[Wikipedia-l] Minimum and maximum article size

[Axel Boldt]

--- Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> For me this also opens up a question about
optimum
> article size.  There 
> is a large body of opinion in Wikipedia that
frowns
> upon stubs,

I don't think however that a stub is defined by size.
If we are talking about some obscure town in Iowa say,
giving the location, population, when it was founded
and by whom, and any prominent people who grew up
there would be a nice round 4 sentence article. I
wouldn't call it a stub at all.
Many encyclopedias have entries like that.

For me personally, a stub is an article that only
gives information that any half-educated person
already knows or that can be gotten from the first
Google hit on the topic. Such an article is completely
useless.

Axel

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