Thread:EternalLocket/@comment-5774380-20150713135149/@comment-5774380-20150714021029

I recall talking about this somewhere before (maybe in The Mentalist Wiki?), but I'm too lazy to search for it now. :P

The stubs are articles that are very short in comparison to the information available. That means that if we have an article of 3 lines, but those 3 lines are all the information that exists about that topic, then that's not a stub (and it would be a nonsense to add the template to said article since it's impossible to expand).

However, that definition only makes clearer my point. The stubs are nothing more than incomplete articles, just too incomplete. The question is, where is the limit between too incomplete and incomplete? Do we need two templates to do the same? Ultimately, both mean the same thing: that those articles need to be filled with information that is available but they lack. And ultimately, we need to expand both, so I don't really see the point in trying to make a distinction.