Forum:New policy idea for "bad" articles

You know what's really annoying? The fact that we don't seem to know how to set proper expectations for our mainspace articles here. For example, we are supposed to treat all users on here equally, right? But does that mean that every user here should get the same rights as everyone else? Of course not. That'd be ludicrous. We just need to be respectful to everyone and not attack them. But with our mainspace, it seems that we think every article should be the same "quality" of other articles such as, for example, the | Time Stones article.

See, it has multiple paragraphs, pictures and references, which is a good thing, but my problem is that it seems like we treat every article as if it should be like that, when in reality, some just can't. They're too small.

Some of the examples I can think of are articles such as the scrapped badniks, and correct me if i'm wrong (if I am then there's still the above example), but I remember articles being put under the need of images category when the topic of the article is never shown. They have all of the information they need, but are still considered "stubs", and it's annoying how they're marked as such, when they're actually good for what they are. They don't need to be lengthy (enough) and have multiple pics, and therefore shouldn't be expected to. My suggestion is maybe to make some sort of policy that states to only mark articles as stubs if there's room for improvement. Sound good?

They only potential con (that is outweighed by the pros IMO) is that it would take a really long time to remove them all, but we have lots of active users here, and even if we can't get rid of them all, it at least decreases the chance that a user wanting to help won't run into a "stub" that shouldn't be marked as such. TheAwesomefroggy (talk) 02:38, November 24, 2012 (UTC)