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MJBurrage wrote: I suspect that in most cases the stubs should have been created, but as redirects. I.E. using Section 17 as an example. It is a portion of the Ark (of unknown size and importance), and other than the culling happening there, we don't know much else. So the one sentence stating that information should have been added to the Ark. But I would argue that Section 17 should exist as a redirect to the Components section of the Ark article. That way we don't have the stub, but a link to Section 17 in an article, will take the reader to whatever detail we do have.

Redirects are better for this than piped links, because if at some later date the article section does get big enough to become its own page, you only have to update a handful of redirects, and not a ton of links on many pages.

P.S. I don't really think that Section 17 alone will ever have enough detail to be its own page, but I could see a page called Ark components with the contents of Agro Station, Mecha Station, Hydro Station, Section 17, and any other present day sections mentioned later, merged there (with the article titles converted to redirects).

The resulting combined article would not be a stub. And, those who contributed to the former stubs, will see their work where it should have been in the first place rather than just erased.

P.P.S. If Shenzhen is one of those you noticed, I could see merging it, and Mir-3 on a single page about the twelve nations (one main section for each country, with Mir-3 and Shenzhen as subsections of Russia and China). But I would very much recommend that the two station names (and the 12 country names) exists as redirects to that page.

In fact, unless asked not to, I will probably do that in a few hours when I get home. I agree and think that we should definitely make an 'Ark Components' page, as a lot of the station pages are incomplete.