User talk:Mdd

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Enjoy! WelcomeBot ^owner!_question? 21:19, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Murray Gell-Mann‎

Thanks for your recent additions, including those to this page. But I just wanted to give you a heads up that we usually do not include so much in the intros to pages. Usually we limit it to one or two sentences and let the user click through to WP if they want to see more. Before I trimmed it, I wanted to at least let you know. Thanks. ~ UDScott 14:01, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for mentioning. I added the description because of the stub-tag, see here. Am I correct, that you just have to added one more sentence to get that tag removed? -- Marcel Douwe Dekker 17:10, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Ah, now I see what you were thinking - actually, the stub tag just refers to the number of quotes that are on a page. It's a bit subjective - see Wikiquote:Stub#Identifying_a_stub for more, but it is applied to a page when it just seems to need a bit more to stand on its own. ~ UDScott 17:42, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. Three more (short) questions:

1. Do you think the Murray Gell-Mann‎ is no longer a stub now?
2. And what about the Kenneth Boulding article? Is this also still a stub?
3. Is het ok, that I moved down the stub tag to the bottum of the article, for example here

-- Marcel Douwe Dekker 21:07, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

1. It's borderline, but I'd probably say that no it's no longer a stub - although more quotes would be good if there are any.
2. Yes, and actually this page has a problem in that none of the quotes are sourced - as such, this page could be nominated for proposed deletion. When trying to determine if a page is a stub, I would not count the unsourced quotes.
3. Actually, no we like to keep the stub tag just below the intro - we found that when it is placed at the bottom of the page, it got lost and people ignored it. When it is higher, it is more easily seen and usually people try to add quotes.

~ UDScott 01:01, 18 August 2009 (UTC)