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The following month, after a member of the congregation took up the position of treasurer, it was discovered the cheque stub for the £10,000 transaction bore the name Northern Ireland Organs Limited.

Although Hug’s Wikipedia article is very short—a mere stub, some would say—it’s worth considering what gets lost when Wikipedia excludes this type of content.

Moreover, once the stub is there, it can be easily expanded by any Wikipedia user, whereas newbie editors have to go through procedural hoops to submit a new article for review.

For example, personal information on a ticket stub could be replaced with illegible letters, or a private building exchanged for a fake building or other landscape features.

Sightings of the sweet-toothed Ursus americanus are almost ordinary on Canyon Crest, a stub of a suburban street dotted with swimming pools.