While many unwanted infra-taxa stubs certainly do exist on English Wikipedia (eg. Milesiina), I should have been more specific that the convention I was speaking of to avoid creating such stubs may be local only to English Wikipedia. Each of the other language versions (such as Dutch, in the example of Heteroconchia) may have their own policies that differ.
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Interesting, do you know why?
Here, there is a plant Tribe with more than 100000 observations and no page:
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/796045-Cynoglosseae
If that was you who made the A. vockerothi page, thank you so much!
“Created by kai_schablewski on November 14, 2018”
That brings back memories. 
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It wasn’t, I’ve only created pages for C. clitellarius and S. trispinosa thus far. I extend my thanks to this person as well though! :)
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Subclass Autobranchia has 413,463 observations and no Wikipedia page, yet Infraclass Heteroconchia with 256,557 has one.
Autobranchia wasn’t recognized in the 2010 classification of bivalves that Wikipedia is mostly still following, and neither was Heteroconchia (there was an unranked clade Heterodonta though, and the Wikipedia article for that was moved to Heteroconchia) ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Bivalvia_taxonomy#Clade_Heterodonta]). Wikipedia’s bivalve classification needs some updates.
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This poor Lake Pond Skater with more than 3000 observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/360902-Aquarius-paludum
Latrodectus occidentalis the mexican widow spider has no common name and a very, very small wikipedia page. Again, Latrodectus curacaviensis the widow spider for South America has a very very small wikipedia page.
I think in general a lot of animals we have forgotten really have such little written about them on Wikipedia and thus iNaturalist, but what is amazing is how quickly that is changing. Basically anyone can change this so if you have knowledge about some species I highly suggest helping change that.
All one must do is click expand on the page that would like to extend! Here is an example.
Warning: Please be careful when editing these pages and always add sources/credits. Be careful to review wikipedia’s rules and add only what you are certain about. Many people for years to come my find and use this information, please take the time to make it accurate.
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