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A permastub is an article that is currently a stub and has no reasonable prospect for expansion.

Permanent stub
The essential reason for a permanent stub is that all verifiable information is already in the article.

There are two things why such an article would be expanded (1) is that new research is published on the subject (2) is that new events occur in relation to the subject. Sometimes new research New events are more likely to occur in relation to some subjects than others.

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