User talk:AjaxSmack/Essays/Progress by Extortion

The article for Koor, Indonesia et al. were created as stubs. Koor, Indonesia was created in June 2010 and tagged with in December of the same year. An ensuing discussion at WikiProject Indonesia included vague calls for that and other articles' deletion. No doubt spurred by these comments, the Koor, Indonesia article's creator expanded the stub to a nearly 7k multi-section article. Such progress, though admirable should ideally not be extorted by the threat of a AfD request or other administrative action.

Stubs are helpful for several reasons. They provide confirmation to users that such places exist and allow for at least their general location and/or administrative position and the spelling of their name to be ascertained. They give an opportunity for non-registered users to contribute in an area where their expertise might be useful.

As User:Rich Farmbrough has noted, an early list of stubs points to examples such as Anton Chekov which started as meager stubs. —  AjaxSmack   14:27, 14 August 2014 (UTC)