Talk:Eight Skilled Gentlemen

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This is not stub class, but let's discuss

Anyone want to weigh in and defend the flagging of this as "stub class?" I don't use AWB, but it appears there is some automatic stub classification that some apparently inexperienced editors are using AWB to flag obvious non-stub articles (like this one). Rather than be contentious, please weigh in and either defend the stub classification, or point out that this may be a short article in need of expansion, but definitely not a stub. I'm mystified. --Quartermaster (talk) 13:45, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It is a stub, I quote from WP:WikiProject Novels/Assessment:

"The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to become a meaningful article. It is usually very short, but if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible, an article of any length falls into this category."

This article is 1) very short, 2) a rough collection that doesn't quite meet start class comprehensiveness. Though Wikipedia:Stub#Ideal_stub_article does not say this, the project definitions and 1.0 Assessment definitions seem to apply here. Now I may be applying a more critical eye to this then others, but also, Novels articles tend to be pretty long, and in comparison to may that I know to be C-class and higher, this is only a fraction of the length. So if my definition is a little skewed, I apologize Sadads (talk) 13:57, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that this article has full bibliographic information, a plot summary, and three referenced book reviews which I would not consider a "rough collection?" I'm going to leave the stub flag as it is pretty irrelevant to the entry itself. You might want to read about the Croughton-London rule of stubs to better refine what some might see as a stub. --Quartermaster (talk) 16:45, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reassessed as start class. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 15:36, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]