What is the purpose of them? I mean, if one takes the time to start a page, doesn't it make sense to put more than one sentence on it?? Why bother
if that is all that you are going to do??
To me, it seems like a waste of energy.
Just needed to vent a bit and ask why an article can be "created" with one lone sentence.
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Dunno. I suppose if it's a really good sentence, but I guess a frame would have to be implicit. Generally best to set the scene, but in generality
there must be some good ones.......
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I honestly have no clue. My only guess would be that
a bunch of unfinished articles started to appear all
over. The only thing to do was give them a name.
Stub sounds like a good word for it.
Kinda like a Snigglet.
Probably no purpose intended but it does reflect
or express ones laziness or forgetfulness.
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reply to post by cluckerspud
"Stub" is a programming term. When you design a sophisticated piece of software, it is useful that stubs for all of the functions or methods that
will need to be written are automatically generated. For example:
public function doSomething (param1, param2) {
}
public function doSomethingElse (param1, param2) {
}
... would be stubs for two functions, doSomething and doSomethingElse, which have not yet been written. The actual code goes between the curly braces.
As a programmer, I don't have to worry whether I have included all of the necessary functions or whether and which parameters they require, since the
stubs provide that information.
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Stubs, I guess I'm TinWiki's past Stub Buster  A stub is just a small article, if a page is wanted then you can make a short paragraph
explaining the basics so who ever requested it can find the basic information. Or if your too lazy to finsh off the article and just do a lil, that's
a stub - and we've all done it 
If you do it, just make sure you give it the correct Stub banner on it so that it can be dealt with... kwlio 
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reply to post by ProTo Fire Fox
I understand the "small article" aspect. But, the day I wrote the OP, someone created an article with one, short sentence. 
I needed to vent then, because I just couldn't see the point.
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Yer it makes sence buddy, i used to wind myself up something rotten with all those damn stubs, i remember one day i did a lot of edits to fix at least
15 pages, then some one came along and made a bunch of one liners - my God if you had heard me you would of wet your self laughing i went mental, but
its all good, even just the one sentence is a base for a further article, plus when you can't think of anything to write, you can add to them;
although i must admit they do annoy me 9/10.
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