456:. If, as you just have, you are trying to make it Somebody Else's Problem to expand stubs, then you are wrong. Writing the encyclopaedia is not Somebody Else Problem. So here's your question reflected back at you: Why, if you think it so important that this stub be expanded that you nominate it for deletion, have you not worked on it yourself? Why are
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Fine. You've bent over backward to defend your right to leave the article as a stub. I bow to you as the expert on the subject and its importance. All I know is that if I thought something was worth so much apoplexy, I'd want to share as much information on it as I could with the rest of the world.
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