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, 33.745% are currently stubs, approximately 2,300,000 articles.
What is a stub?
editA 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.
How to participate
editParticipating is simple:
- Pick a stub.
- Find one or more reliable sources about that topic.
- Summarize those sources in the article.
- Once it's no longer a stub, list it as a success at The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge.
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Long stubs, a weekly bot generated report of long articles with stub tag.
- If stub can be removed, do so:
- Edit Summary:
rm stub; Wikipedia:Database reports/Long stubs; Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub improvement; [[WP:STIM|you can help!]]
- Edit Summary:
- Run Rater article assessment tool and update WikiProject Class/Importance as needed. Note: the ORES prediction percent is an estimate and may not always be accurate, so use your best judgement for WikiProject Class, Importance. Stub-class
- If stub can be removed, do so:
For Stub-class articles, here is a PetScan example to create a smaller group of articles from a large category.
- Depth: 1
Categories: Stub-Class football in France articles (Note: over 8,000 articles) - Page properties:
- Namespaces - add Talk
Size - Smaller or equal - 100 ( Results = 247 )
Redirects - No, No, No
- Namespaces - add Talk
- Output: HTML or Plain text
Sort: by title
Since the Stub class is set on the article's Talk page, review each article for a missing stub tag (to add) if needed; or if the article is improved, remove the stub tag and upgrade to class "Start" or higher.
Participants
edit- MorbidEntree (talk · contribs)
- Gug01 (talk · contribs)
- User:Sɛvɪnti faɪv (talk · contribs)
- CircleGirl (talk · contribs)
- OliverEastwood (talk · contribs)
- Thebiguglyalien (talk · contribs)
- Edward-Woodrow (talk · contribs)
- Oltrepier (talk · contribs)
- Arotparaarms (talk · contribs)
- Pascal Kings (talk · contribs)
- Freeguy01 (talk · contribs)
- Tavantius (talk · contribs)
Helpful links
editEssays
edit- 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
editThis 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:
- User:Sɛvɪnti faɪv/User Anti stub
- Template:User Anti-stub WikiProject
- Template:User WikiProject Stub improvement
| Template code | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| {{User WikiProject Stub improvement}} |
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