Mav, if you'd _read_ Erik's message you'd have noted he said that the TOC is *not* displayed when showing the main page, which is why you need to give other examples.
It is not really a good argument to just say "This is a special case, show me other examples". How many other good examples will be dismissed as special cases? How many good examples does it take to no longer be a bunch of special cases?
Me, I'm all in favor of being able to manually suppress automatic functions that aren't always appropriate for particular tasks.
Maybe the preferences should allow users to set the threshold of how many sections an article must have to get a TOC.
Greetings, Timwi