Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub improvement
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Welcome to the Stub Improvement WikiProject! Our goal here is to get stubs built up into useful, well-sourced articles. Of all Wikipedia articles, 33.775% are currently stubs.
How to participate
Participating is simple:
- Pick a stub.
- Find at least 2–3 good sources about that topic.
- Summarize those sources in the article.
- Once it's no longer a stub, list it as a success at the Showcase.
What is a stub?
A stub is any article that has only basic information while omitting important aspects of the topic. There is no exact size that defines a stub, but most articles under 250–300 words will be considered stubs. Articles with more than 500 words are almost never stubs. Stubs are often tagged with a stub template at the bottom of the article; when the article is expanded, this template should be removed. Articles may also be classified as stubs on talk page banners, and these banners should be updated as well.
Partcipants
- MorbidEntree (talk · contribs)
- Gug01 (talk · contribs)
- User:Sɛvɪnti faɪv (talk · contribs)
- CircleGirl (talk · contribs)
- OliverEastwood (talk · contribs)
- Thebiguglyalien (talk · contribs)
Helpful links
Essays
- Wikipedia:Abandoned stubs
- Wikipedia:An unfinished house is a real problem
- User:Grutness/Croughton-London rule of stubs
- Wikipedia:Don't hope the house will build itself
- Wikipedia:One sentence does not an article make
Templates
This WikiProject does not use a WikiProject banner, as stubs are already designated through stub templates, and those are maintained at WikiProject Stub sorting. But we do have userboxes that you can place on your user page:
Related WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Reliability
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles
