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Essay on editing Wikipedia
Sometimes in articles for deletion discussions, editors will argue that an article is small or contains very little content and therefore must not be notable. This is a fallacy simply because a short article may be incomplete or simply may only be warranted. Such articles are typically called a stub, and stub articles are widely accepted as a common type of article.
User:Montanabw stated eloquently in one discussion "Do not confuse stub status with non-notability."
See also
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walter Wenzel AFD where the writer of the essay first experienced the argument that inspired this essay.