Why I Have Article Stubs
When writing articles, I often want to link to other articles.
This is nothing new.
However, if the article doesn't exist yet, this poses a problem: I don't want to forget to link to the article, but I have no live article to link to (yet).
My solution is to create stub articles as placeholders. Their intent is to remind me to write the full article in the future.
This idea was inspired by Wikipedia's stubs, which they define as:
A stub is an article that, although lacking the breadth of coverage expected from an encyclopedia, provides some useful information and is capable of expansion.
With each stub article, I will attempt to still provide "some useful information", even if it's not my fully fleshed out idea.
As my article writing process intentionally takes time (I lean into Steven Johnson's "slow hunch"), I don't want my lack of an available link (and the time it takes to write a whole new article) to slow down my process even further.
After all, done is better than perfect.
If I find myself linking many other articles and pages to the stub, that's strong signal that I need to finish the article!