[Wikipedia-l] Stub detector

[Neil Harris]

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>On Friday 27 September 2002 10:47 am, you wrote:
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>>But please make the default setting say 250 chars. This will find the
>>most gratuitous stubs, without affecting many real articles.
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>>Neil
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>250 is way too low to be at all useful and can never be consider to be 
>anything other than (at most) a definition. At 500 chars there is far more 
>space to actually start having encyclopedia articles.
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>Compare;
>http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnational_entity   250 chars
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>With;
>http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecale 500 chars
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>The first is just a definition, but the second actually has a definition 
>/and/ some encyclopedic information.
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>-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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Ok, you've convinced me. I change my vote for the default to 500.

Neil