User blog comment:Zambiealex/Why these are needed for pages/@comment-5558012-20160705132122

Adding a 'stub' notice isn't vandalism but simple maintenance. Not everyone would have the time, experience, or perhaps the knowledge to edit that page. A stub is used to tell everyone that the article needs more attention; that being said, a stub and a short article aren't the same thing.

I personally don't like when people create stubs (much more so less than three sentence stubs), especially at a high rate. Unless the wiki's community is large and active or brand new, stubs are rather useless because they would likely not get edited for some extended period of time and can make a wiki appear to have more content than they really have (who wants to read a bunch of stubs).

I find that stubs on older wikis tend to be about minor topics so removing the notice takes more effort in creating some kind of lengthy content. Many are still destined to be short pages though, regardless, pages should hopefully never be marked as stubs for years.