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A stub is a very short article, often a paragraph or less, containing an insufficient amount of information. You can help Bulbapedia by finding stubs and editing them, adding more information, and thereby expanding them. As Bulbapedia is a collaborative encyclopedia, any user can contribute to any article. | A '''stub''' is a very short article, often a paragraph or less, containing an insufficient amount of information. You can help Bulbapedia by finding stubs and editing them, adding more information, and thereby expanding them. As Bulbapedia is a collaborative encyclopedia, any user can contribute to any article. | ||
The page you were previously visiting is probably a stub. | The page you were previously visiting is probably a stub. You can help Bulbapedia grow by clicking the "back" button on your browser and then expanding that page. | ||
If you create an article that is a stub, please put this at the end of the article: '''<nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki>'''. Doing so will display this message: | If you create an article that is a stub, please put this at the end of the article: '''<nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki>'''. Doing so will display this message: | ||
<div class="boilerplate metadata" id="stub">''This article is a [[Bulbapedia:Find or fix a stub|stub]]. You can [[Bulbapedia:Find or fix a stub|help]] Bulbapedia by [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=edit}} expanding it]''.</div> | <div class="boilerplate metadata" id="stub">''This article is a [[Bulbapedia:Find or fix a stub|stub]]. You can [[Bulbapedia:Find or fix a stub|help]] Bulbapedia by [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=edit}} expanding it]''.</div> | ||
If you saw that message on the article, but the article is developed well beyond stub status, please feel free to remove the tag. If the article is much longer than a stub but still incomplete, rather than marking it as a stub, please add | If you saw that message on the article, but the article is developed well beyond stub status, please feel free to remove the tag. If the article is much longer than a stub but still incomplete, rather than marking it as a stub, please add the {{template|incomplete}} template to the beginning of the article. | ||
There are different stub messages and categories for different types of articles: | There are different stub messages and categories for different types of articles: | ||
Revision as of 06:33, 28 November 2008
A stub is a very short article, often a paragraph or less, containing an insufficient amount of information. You can help Bulbapedia by finding stubs and editing them, adding more information, and thereby expanding them. As Bulbapedia is a collaborative encyclopedia, any user can contribute to any article.
The page you were previously visiting is probably a stub. You can help Bulbapedia grow by clicking the "back" button on your browser and then expanding that page.
If you create an article that is a stub, please put this at the end of the article: {{stub}}. Doing so will display this message:
If you saw that message on the article, but the article is developed well beyond stub status, please feel free to remove the tag. If the article is much longer than a stub but still incomplete, rather than marking it as a stub, please add the {{incomplete}} template to the beginning of the article.
There are different stub messages and categories for different types of articles:
- {{gamestub}} - game-related articles
- {{animestub}} - anime-related articles
- {{mangastub}} - manga-related articles
- {{locationstub}} - location articles
- {{shippingstub}} - shipping-related articles
- {{songstub}} - song articles
- {{jasongstub}} - Japanese song articles
- {{TCGstub}} - TCG-related articles
- {{glitchstub}} - glitch-related articles
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