You are quite wrong An article consisting only of external links is not fine  it qualifies for speedy deletion under WPCSDA No content Your article contained only a single link to a company website and had been like that for over an hour when I deleted it People often put those in by way of advertisement which is one reason why they are speedied  What the guidelines actually say is WPSTUB When you write a stub bear in mind that it should contain enough information for other editors to expand upon it The key is to provide adequate contextarticles with little or no context usually end up being speedily deleted WPYour first articleThings to avoid A single sentence or only a website link  articles need to have real content of their own WPList of bad article ideas  Anything about which you are not going to write at least one complete sentence WPAvoiding common mistakes Articles which are too short to have encyclopedic value Articles must establish the context and notability of the subject If an article does not contain enough content to classify it as a stub then it may qualify for speedy deletion Instead of creating a very short article consider adding more content to the page before saving it or using the  tag to indicate that the article is in the process of expansion