[WikiEN-l] Defamatory Biographies - another problem looming forWikipedia?

Wed Dec 21 14:46:39 UTC 2005

This seems like a good middle ground. I have to admit that after creating a
new stub biography, and finding it tagged with three stub templates -- which
took up more space on the page than the article itself -- I removed some of
them impulsively. Still, I very much think it makes the article look silly
to have more stub templates than content. Adding the article to the
categories without using every template could be the best of both worlds.

Ryan

On 12/22/05, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/20/05, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> > > (And for the record, when I find an article with more than one stub
> tag
> > > attached, I always reduce the number to one. Don't like it? Then turn
> > > the stub into an article, & we'll both be happy.)
> >
> > PLEASE DON'T DO THIS. Different stubs are subcategories of different
> > parent categories.
>
> It's possible to add a stub category without adding a stub template.
> Perhaps this would be a suitable compromise between those who need the
> categories to be there and those who don't want multiple "this is a
> stub..." notices on one article? Compare
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosius_Stub&oldid=27617688>
> with <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosius_Stub&oldid=27615177>,
> for example.
>
> Angela.
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