Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-35301431-20170314133630/@comment-53539-20171127173704

A stub is an article/page which has little information on it... Like... two sentences or something. Some editors have issues with it and would prefer stubs to either not exist or all the information be collected on one page.

The reason is, the argument is the page didn't warrant being created if it didn't have much on a topic as it wasn't important enough. This is from the days of Wikipedia being the main wiki, as it was an encyclopedia and wants to talk about all subjects. But some people created pages with little to them, thus they had little research to offer. IT was an article created for the sake of it. Often the subject of the page had no or little criteria or sources and was a sub-topic that was part of a much larger topic of interest.

I was caught up in Wikipedia politics on stubs in 2002... Honestly, its a topic not worth talking about there as you either accept them or hate them. =_='