Wikivoyage talk:Stub articles
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"Mostly, though, stubs are a good thing" – what?[edit]
Wikivoyage:Stub articles#Pros and cons of stubs states the following: "Mostly, though, stubs are a good thing. A stub is the seedling from which the full plant of an article emerges. One Wikivoyager can add a stub, and other Wikivoyagers will come along and add more information to it. Someone else comes in and reformats the article according to the Manual of style, and someone else adds photos. Eventually, the tiny one-sentence stub becomes a healthy, useful article."
This is extremely opinionated and to an extent, untrue. What happens in practice is that a stub article is created, it is left as-is for a few more years, with the original creator expecting Someone Else to clean it up and expand it. However, the size and nature of this project means that the Someone Else does not exist in practice and the article remains untouched in its sad morbid state. "Mostly" is also a massive overstatement, because their downsides are far worse than their upsides.
Any objections to removing this statement? --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 00:53, 5 April 2024 (UTC)