Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4643078-20150720052614

This is just a hypothetical discussion. As far as I know, stub notices have to be manually added to a page. It made me wonder if a stub notice could automatically be added to pages. I realize that what qualifies as a stub varies from wiki to wiki. I think that there could probably be some kind of default standard though, for example, if a page only has one or two sentences and no pictures, videos, or forms of substanial content. I'm assuming that if something warrants a page created specifically for it, then someone would be able to add more content about it than the above example. Still speaking hypothetically of course, admins could be able to adjust this feature to make it personalized for their wiki, or choose to not use it as all. It seems like a feature like this would be a good way to keep track of stubby pages.

On a similar note, I realize the "Insights" feature helps with finding stubs sometimes, and although I like it and use it, unfortunately certain types of stubs are bound to slip past it. The Insights mainly lets you find pages that lack images, categories, or links. Something I'd particularly like is if there was a wordcount feature, to look for pages lacking in text. Sometimes users will add links and categories to their pages, but include very little actual content. And sometimes pages lack images simply because they don't really need an image, such as lists, or an image was too difficult to obtain. (Likewise, a page may have an image but barely any info.) Modifying the Insights feature is an option too. I'm sort of drawn to the idea of an automatic stub feature though, after seeing some of the other Wiki Features. 