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My opinion on this has not changed since the last discussion on this. Stubs are the founding roots of a big tree and this is suggesting that we uproot the whole tree all together. The idea of Wikipedia is to create a 'comprehensive' encyclopedia. The only way to be as comprehensive as we can get is by creating these one-line stubs. While they might be seen as practically useless by some, others might find them very helpful and enjoyable to read, as well as informative. People write on what they like to write about, in their own little niches. It should not matter if they are really good stub writers, but sucky long article writers.