[WikiEN-l] The deletion paradox

Tue Jan 31 11:05:56 UTC 2006

On 1/31/06, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>
> There's no reason to *delete* a 2-sentence unverified stub, merely to
> make clear to our readers that it is in fact a 2-sentence unverified
> stub, and so ought to be read accordingly.  Of course, an intelligent
> reader already ought to be able to recognize that for themselves, but we
> can help the rest along.
>
> -Mark

The whole point being that if it remains unverifiable for other editors that
particular stub will never be expanded, which basically robs the stub of its
only function.

Mgm