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retrostubs in 2001/2002. I can't think of any way to reconstruct the stub data, other than making an arbitrary cutoff like "500 bytes or less is a stub." The retrostub percentage chart, however, does show that it's unlikely that the percentage of stub articles on
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Feel free to contact me for the raw data or scripts used to compute these statistics.
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