Wikipedia:Stub

Before proposing or creating a new type of stub, please read How to propose a new stub type.

This page documents an English Wikipedia editing guideline. It is a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though it is best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply. Any substantive edit to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on the talk page.

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This page in a nutshell: An article too short to provide more than rudimentary information about a subject should be marked as a stub by adding a stub template from the list here to the end of the article. Anyone can edit a stub article, or remove a stub template from an article which is no longer a stub.

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The objective of this article is to provide a general guide for dealing with stubs, which are articles deemed too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject. The first section, Basic information, contains information that is recommended for most users. The second half, Creating stub types contains more specialized material.

NOTE: This page is NOT for proposing new stub articles. To do that, please visit Wikipedia:Articles for creation.

1 Basic information
2 Creating stub types
3 Stubbing existing articles
4 Stub types, WikiProjects, and Assessment templates
5 Tools
6 See also

Basic information

A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject, but not so short as to provide no useful information, and it should be capable of expansion. Sizable articles are usually not considered stubs, even if they lack wikification or copy editing. With these articles, a cleanup template is usually added instead of a stub template. Note that if a small article has little properly sourced information, or if its subject has no inherent notability, it may be deleted or be merged into another relevant article.

While a "definition" may be enough to qualify an article as a stub, Wikipedia is not a dictionary. The distinction between dictionary and encyclopedia articles is best expressed by the use–mention distinction:

A dictionary article is about a word or phrase and will often have several different definitions for it
An encyclopedia article is about the subject denoted by the title but usually has only one definition (or in some cases, several definitions that are largely the same) but there may be several equivalent words (synonyms) or phrases for it.

There is no set size at which an article stops being a stub. While very short articles are likely to be stubs, there are some subjects about which there is very little that can be written. Conversely, there are subjects about which a lot could be written – their articles may still be stubs even if they are a few paragraphs long. As such, it is impossible to state whether an article is a stub based solely on its length, and any decision on the article has to come down to an editor's best judgement (the user essay on the Croughton-London rule may be of use when trying to judge whether an article is a stub). Similarly, stub status usually depends on the length of prose text alone – lists, templates, images, and other such peripheral parts of an article are usually not considered when judging whether an article is a stub.

Ideal stub article

Shortcut: WP:IDEALSTUB

Any registered editor may start a stub article.

When you write a stub, bear in mind that it should contain enough information for other editors to expand upon it. The key is to provide adequate context—articles with little or no context usually end up being speedily deleted. Your initial research may be done either through books or reliable websites. You may also contribute knowledge acquired from other sources, but it is useful to conduct some research beforehand, in order to ensure that your facts are accurate and unbiased. Use your own words: directly copying other sources without giving them credit is plagiarism, and may in some cases be a violation of copyright.

Begin by defining or describing your topic. Avoid fallacies of definition. Write clearly and informatively. State, for example, what a person is famous for, where a place is located and what it is known for, or the basic details of an event and when it happened.

Next, try to expand upon this basic definition. Internally link relevant words, so that users unfamiliar with the subject can understand what you have written. Avoid linking words needlessly; instead, consider which words may require further definition for a casual reader to understand the article. Lastly, a critical step: add sources for the information you have put into the stub; see citing sources for information on how to do so in Wikipedia.

Once you create and save the article, other editors will also be able to enhance it.

How to mark an article as a stub

After writing a short article, or finding an unmarked stub, you should insert a stub template. Choose from among the templates listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types.

This is placed at the end of the article, after the External links section, any navigation templates, and the category tags, so that the stub category will appear last. It is usually desirable to leave two blank lines between the first stub template and whatever precedes it, along with placing them before any interlanguage links (leaving one blank space in between). As with all templates, stub templates are added by simply placing the name of the template in the text between double pairs of curly brackets (e.g., {{Wikipedia-stub}}). Stub templates are transcluded, not substituted.

Stub templates have two parts: a short message noting the stub's topic and encouraging editors to expand it, and a category link, which places the article in a stub category alongside other stubs on the same topic. The naming for stub templates usually topic-stub; a list of these templates may be found here. You need not learn all the templates—even simply adding {{stub}} helps (see this essay for more information). The more accurately an article is tagged, however, the less work it is for other sorters later, and the more useful it is for editors looking for articles to expand.

If an article overlaps several stub categories, more than one template may be used, but it is strongly recommended that only those relating to the subject's main notability be used. A limit of three or, if really necessary, four stub templates is advised.

Stub-related activities are centralised at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting (shortcut Wikipedia:WSS). This project should be your main reference for stub information, and is where new stub types should be proposed for discussion prior to creation.

Removing stub status

Shortcut: WP:DESTUB

Once a stub has been properly expanded and becomes a larger article, any editor may remove its stub template. No administrator action or formal permission is needed.

Many articles still marked as stubs have in fact been expanded beyond what is regarded as stub size. If an article is too large to be considered a stub but still needs expansion, the stub template may be removed and appropriate {{expand section}} templates may be added (no article should contain both a stub template and an expand template).

Be bold in removing stub tags that are clearly no longer applicable.

Locating stubs

Category: Stub categories the main list of stub categories and of articles contained within them
Category: Stubs deprecated, but still receives a few articles periodically
Wikipedia: Most wanted stubs (This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant, or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. )
Special:Shortpages
By setting stub threshold in Preferences to a maximum number of bytes for a page to be placed in class "stub" for markup purposes.

Creating stub types

Please propose new stub types at WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals so that they may be discussed prior to creating them.

In general, a stub type consists of a stub template and a dedicated stub category, although "upmerged" templates are also occasionally created which feed into more general stub categories.

If you identify a group of stub articles that do not fit an existing stub type, or if an existing stub category is growing very large, you can propose the creation of a new stub type which is debated at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals.

Example

An example of a stub template is {{Writer-stub}}, which produces:

This article about a writer, poet or playwright is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

The stub category, Category:Writer stubs, lists all articles containing the {{Writer-stub}} template.

Guidelines

Several guidelines are used to decide whether a new stub type is useful. These include the following:

Is there a stub type for this topic already? (Check Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types.)
Will the new type be well-defined? (Stub categories are a tool used by editors to expand articles. Good topic definition makes stubs easier to sort accurately.)
Does the new stub type cover ground not covered by other type, or create a well-defined subtype that does?
Will there be a significant number of existing stubs in this category? (Ideally, a newly created stub type has 100–300 articles. In general, any new stub category should have a minimum of 60 articles. This threshold is modified in the case of the main stub category used by a WikiProject.)
Would your new stub type overlap with other stub types? (Stub types form a hierarchy and as such are usually split in specific ways. Compare other stub splits at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types.)
If you are breaking a subtype out of an existing type, will the new creation reduce the size of the parent by a significant amount? (This is not an absolute necessity, but is often a catalyst for the creation of stub categories. Stub categories containing over 800 articles are typically considered to be "over-sized", and in need of such sub-types.)

If you think you have satisfied these guidelines, it is highly recommended that you propose the new stub type at stub type proposals page. This allows for debate on matters relating to the stub type that may not have occurred to the proposer, and also allows for objections if the split does not satisfy stub guidelines. If there are no objections within five days, you may create the new stub type.

New stub templates

Once the creation of a new stub type has been discussed at Wikipedia: WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals and agreed upon, a template can be created. The name of this should follow the stub type naming conventions, and will usually be decided during the discussion process.

All stub templates should link to a stub category. This may be a category specific to the topic of the template, or the template might be "upmerged" to one or more less specific categories – for example, a template for Andorran history might link to a stub category for European history and a general Andorran stub category. This is often thought to be desirable when a stub type is proposed in anticipation of future use, but is not currently over the size threshold; or where an existing stub type has a finite number of well-defined subdivisions, with some numerically viable as subtypes, and others not.

Adding a small image to the stub template (the "stub icon") is generally discouraged because it increases the strain on the Wikipedia servers but may be used, so long as the image must be public domain or have a free license – fair use images must not be used in templates. Stub icons should be small, preferably no more than about 40px in size.

The standard code for stub templates is found at: {{asbox}}. This template can be used (without substitution).

New stub categories

The name of the stub category should also have been decided during the proposal process and will also follow the naming guidelines.

The text of a stub category should contain a definition of what type of stubs are contained in it and an indication of what template is used to add stubs to it. The {{WPSS-cat}} template should also be placed on the category, to indicate that it has been created after debate at Wikipedia: WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. The new stub category should also be added to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types list.

The new stub category should be correctly added into other categories. These should include at least three specific categories:

The analogous permanent category ("permcat")
At least one higher level ("parent") stub category
Category:Stub categories

Thus, for example, Category:France stubs, should be in an equivalent permcat (Category: France), parent stub category (Category:Europe stubs), and Category:Stub categories.

The creation of stub categories can be partially automated by using {{Stub category}} as follows:

{{Stub Category|article=[[A]]|newstub=B|category=C}}

A: Insert the description of the category here.

B: Insert the name of the new stub template here.

C: Insert the name of an appropriate parent non-stub category.

In the example given above, the formatting would look like this:

{{Stub Category|article=[[France]]|newstub=France-stub|category=France}} which would produce this:

This category is for stub articles relating to France. You can help by expanding them.
To add an article to this category, use {{France-stub}} instead of {{stub}}.

This syntax also automatically adds the new category to Category:Stub categories, though parent stub categories and {{WPSS-cat}} still need to be added manually. It also automatically pipes the stub category with "µ", so that appears at the end of the list of subcategories in non-stub category C. This effectively moves it away from navigation categories to place it alongside other editing- and cleanup-related categories.

If you have some doubts or comments regarding any part of the process, do not hesitate to address them at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stub sorting.

Stubbing existing articles

On occasion, an article may have severe problems that require much of its content to be removed. This may be done in response to an article that is heavily biased, either for or against its subject; an article that has some verifiable material but is otherwise full of original research; in response to an OTRS complaint; or a variety of other reasons.

If enough content is removed that all that remains is a stub, a stub template should be added to the article, if it does not already have one.

Stub types, WikiProjects, and Assessment templates

When a new WikiProject commences, one of the first things its creators often do is decide whether or not a specific stub type should be created for it. Often there is no real problem, as WikiProject topics frequently coincide with subjects of specific stub types. On other occasions, there will be no specific stub type, and a new type should be proposed.

Occasionally, a WikiProject will seek to have a stub type which runs contrary to the way stubs are normally split, and this can create conflict between that project and WikiProject Stub sorting, or – more important – between that one stub type and one or more other stub types. Even where there is an existing stub type, there may be conflict, as often the definition of a topic as used for stub sorting may not be identical to that used by its specific WikiProject. It should be remembered in cases like this that, while a specific WikiProject may be looking for a solution for its concerns, WikiProject Stub sorting is attempting to make a coherent and cohesive system that works for all editors. The system needs to be as compatible as possible with the needs of all WikiProjects, and also with the needs of casual editors who are not part of any WikiProject.

Assessment templates are a way around this problem, and more often than not a far more useful tool for WikiProjects. Assessment templates have several distinct advantages over stub types for WikiProjects. The templates are placed on article talk pages, where they are less likely to be seen as controversial (the placing of stub templates on controversial articles has frequently been a source of edit-warring). They allow all articles within a topic area to be assessed and catalogued by a project, not just stub articles. They allow an indication to be made of exactly what work needs to be done on an article. They also allow workgroups that are subgroups of WikiProjects to have their own specific templates that are better suited to their tasks.

Tools

Several tools are available for helping to locate and sort stubs. These include:

Wikipedia:Stub Makers
Help:Section for information on {{expand section}} (formerly called "section-stub"), a related template type used to mark sections of articles
List of stub templates (or the easier-to-load list of subpages here)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists
Wikipedia:Requested articles
Wikipedia:Most wanted articles
Croughton-London rule (essay on when a page is or is not a stub)
Wikipedia:When to use the generic stub tag

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Why ebay and Wikipedia rule Google's serps: It's hard to find an obscure search query like [artificial link] which doesn't deliver ebay spam or a Wikipedia stub within the first few results at Google. Although both Wikipedia and ebay are large sites, the Web is huge, ...
Art Theft and Looting in WWII: Wiki Stub: For my Wikipedia stub, I am going to research the theft that of art pieces in World War II. This subject popped out at me most of all because, I have always found World War II to be one of the most interesting wars that I've studied, ...
When It Absolutely Has to Be Accurate, Don't Trust the Crowd: For example, in a January 2007 NewYorkTimes.com article, author Jonathan Dee cites an example whereby someone created a Wikipedia "stub" which he says is a "placeholder" that is often "one sentence in length. ...
Why eBay and Wikipedia rule Google's SERPs: It's hard to find an obscure search query like [artificial link] which doesn't deliver eBay spam or a Wikipedia stub within the first few results at Google. Although both Wikipedia and eBay are large sites, the Web is huge, ...
Wikipedia entry on a Second Life location: took a stab at writing a Wikipedia stub on one of my favorite Second Life locations, Caledon, the steampunk/Victorian sim. I'ma Wikipedia n00b, and my stub got flagged for deletion (rightly) due to a lack of notable references. ...
Helen Hardin and Wikipedia: So I've done something I've never done before - created a new Wikipedia article (or honestly, a Wikipedia stub). You can find it here. Note: Whoops. I forgot that I also started up the Wikipedia page for Bloggernacle. What can I say? ...
Computer Science Questions 2: For instance, a Wikipedia stub is a short article in need of expansion. Coding: During development, we sometimes use a "skeleton" function (or procedure, or method) to simulate some intended (but not yet implemented) functionality. ...
Wikipedia Proposal: ... there will be a good number of sources I can pull information from and because we are currently using it in our computer science class (COMP105). The current Wikipedia stub can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_(software).
Wikipedia Article – Structure/Contributions: The main problem with the existing Wikipedia stub on Heard is that it lacks depth. At this point, the stub would act as a good introduction as it provides a broad look at Heard's life and work. I would like to contribute particularly to ...
Heater Shields Blog record: I have made the final decision on what wikipedia stub to alter. I chose the topic of the Heater Shield (a type of shield used in medieval times.) Update: finding relevant and meaningful information on this topic has been far more ...
Wikipedia!: The forum has a wikipedia stub!
Status of David Newman, WJR talk show host '70s thru '01 ...: There's a Wikipedia stub article for him at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_N...8radio_host%29 which somebody should take the time to find some documented info on and fill out a bit more of. It's missing his birthdate and the year ...
Wireless Nomad in Wikipedia: Someone does a Wikipedia stub on Wireless Nomad... "Wireless Nomad is a non-profit cooperative based in Toronto, Canada whose purpose is to provide Wi-Fi wireless Internet access to Toronto residents. However, instead of using Bell ...
BurmeseLanguage - PythonInfo Wiki: my-mm.org - blogs labelled Python - mostly related to zawgyi_keyboard.py. box02.my-mm.org - nokia, s60. ဝီကီပိဒိယ Wikipedia stub. CategoryLanguage CategoryUnicode · EditText (last edited 2010-04-03 01:13:13 by CarlTrachte) ...
Wikipedia Research Blog: This time, before when I searched for a Wikipedia stub, I first read over the project instructions, then considered what kind of topic would give me the most to research and write about. I looked through biography stubs, ...
wikipedia bibliography: For this wikipedia stub, I have chosen to look at all the aspects and references toward cupbearers in history starting with ancient greek mythology and moving toward more biblical references. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eromenos ...
Siguiente parada....Naciones Unidas.: But there wasn't much info about it provided, so I googled “giant frog” and about the only things that came up were “Devil frog,” “frog from Hell,” and a Wikipedia stub about a frog from Dungeons and Dragons. ...
Acquaintances Old and New: Nevertheless, the Wikipedia stub for Susa includes the tidbit that his composition teachers at Julliard "included William Bergsma, Vincent Persichetti and, so he says, PDQ Bach." As I understand the history, "PDQ Bach" was "born" out of ...
I added a note to the public record on Joe Baiza: Asking The Oracle, I came across a Wikipedia stub on the man. And I thought, well, hell, as little as I know, I know something this stub doesn't know and it's worth telling the people about it. Here was what the stub said: ...
The Eternal Science Tattoo | The Loom | Discover Magazine: See this Wikipedia stub: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysopoeia. 6. John Monfries Says: October 30th, 2008 at 1:13 am. Thanks, but I the stub does seem to cast doubt on the date of 1600 BC attributed to it in Carl's post. ...
Sally Cruikshank: Fickle Wiklepedia: The page should be edited to at least link to you IMDB listing (which is linked via the Wikipedia stub for Quasi at the Quackadero I think this happens in Wikipedia quite frequently. I know it's happened for the Bio page of a cartoonist ...
Bland Altman plots - ExcelBanter: See the Wikipedia stub on Bland Altman. That's just what I did since I had not realized that Bland and. Altman had arrogated the standard Tukey mean-difference plot, as is it is still known as in other fields. James Silverton ...
XMRV Retrovirus: Whittemore Peterson Institute: CFS: Media Round up 7: Wikipedia stub: Xmrv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmrv. Wikipedia article: Retrovirus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrovirus. ————–. Source: Lois Ventura www.name-us.org 13 October 2009. Below is a response I received following a thank ...
Consumer Reports Electronics Blog: Sharp readies “Quattron” LCD ...: The Wikipedia stub article consisted of links to Sharp marketing documents. I ended up writing a blog post on the confused ad copy, here: http://www.ampersandvirgule.com/2010/03/sharp-marketing-takes-dull-edge.html ...
MY FIRST WIKIPEDIA CONTRIBUTION: Holy crap holy crap holy crap. I just made my first Wikipedia contribution. My first Wikipedia stub! It may not look like much, but it's about time I started giving back. I feel like I'm now have a hand at composing my own bible.
Random Stat : tan tan noodles – msg free since 2005: Rhea Dec 03, 2007. lol. hmmm….if you pay me enough, ill start a wikipedia stub for you. ;P. # Joe Tan Dec 05, 2007. hmm actually, #35 now, not #42. So it looks like i'm climbing the charts for “joe”… ;p ...
Meet Elmer Myers [Forgotten Cleveland Indians]: There's something so sad about finding out a player is a mere Wikipedia stub: “This article is only a stub! You can help Wikipedia by expanding it!” Sigh. If only my sad pen-and-ink depiction could expand the definition of an Elmer ...
Adiken's miniatures and the fall of a gaming company: Upon cursory examination, all that existed about Adiken was a cryptic Wikipedia stub. So I did a little digging—and found a fascinating account of the frenetic rise and fall of the company, as chronicled by Paul DeStefano, ...
MediaWiki: a personal experience: If one editor added another wikipedia stub (an short article in need of expansion) to the article it can be found here. This is a good place to explore ideas as well. It's an online discussion board. Depending how detailed the content ...
Yes wiki can: BARACK OBAMA is like a wikipedia stub—everyone can change him. So said Henry Jenkins of MIT during an interview with Steven Johnson at SXSW Interactive yesterday, according to my friends. It sounds like a fairly derisive thing to say, ...
New Addiction: ... and the many articles relating to tarantula species, that there were lots of typos, that there were a few factual errors, and that many species, even common and important species, simply had a wikipedia stub or no article there. ...
Furry portal on Wikipedia: If any of you feel like bringing some of Wikipedia's Stub, Start or C-class articles up to B-class (or higher), please do! Have a look at these requirements and the good articles to see what we're aiming at. ...
The Eighth MB Guide: It's Badi', not Bayumi: No one has yet fixed the English Wikipedia stub that says it's Rashad al-Bayumi "pending approval of the Guidance Council." Guess they disagreed. English Wikipedia doesn't have a bio of Badi' up yet, but Arabic Wikipedia does. ...