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My guess is that the work page was cut for being a stub, and no one caught that it had a subpage?
^ It never existed at all; see Literature.The Cay
We don't have the main article because this headscratchers page was made in 2012 by an IP address rather than a real user. I'm going to cutlist it.
creating a headscratchers page that doesn't have a corresponding main article doesn't seem like something that should be possible on this site.
Add that to the Wishlist
. Such an idea shouldn't affect Headscratcher subpages because it would be overly restrictive. We don't have a common problem with people making unattached subpages.
This isn't the first time there's a reocurrence of a subpage without a main page; I've seen Trivia and YMMV pages without main pages. Why though?
Sometimes people cutlist the main page for whatever reason (such as being a stub) and forget to cut the subpages. And other times, people don't know that subpages need to be attached to a main page and just make them pre-orphaned like this one.
How did we wind up with a headscratchers page without a corresponding main? Literature
I was looking to see if we had a page on a novel I've read, and I found this: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/TheCay
. It's about that novel in question, which is about a young boy who gets stranded on a tropical island with an old black man, during a time when the latter would be expected to address the former as "boss." But if we have the headscratcher, why don't we have the main article?