Magnus Manske wrote:
Did anyone look at [[Category:Stub]] lately? Well,
"There are 10483
articles in this category." And they are all on one page.
Seems we need to break down large categories into several pages after
all. What would be a good number of article links per page? 500? That
would make 21 pages and counting, for this special case.
A better solution might be to use this as an opportunity to look at
these articles to see if they really are stubs. If not the stub message
could be deleted. In the others there is no shortage of work to be
done. :-)
A third idea is to consider whether Category:stub makes any sense at all.
It's probably a bad idea to conflate the *subject* of an article with
the *article* itself. World War II was a war; [[World War II]] is 57,382
characters long. World War II was not 57,382 characters long; [[World
War II]] is not a war (usually).
A category describes the subject, not the article. The only stuff that
should be in [[Category:stub]] is [[nubbin]] and [[stump]].
It would be useful to have metadata about the article; categories are a
bad way to implement that.
~ESP