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On Wikipedia, a stub is a short article. Wikipedians use the word stub to mean an article that is very short. Generally, articles with less than 1500 characters of text are called stubs. Many of Wikipedia's most informative articles started out as stubs. A sub stub is a Wikipedia term for a stub that is very short—often no more than a simple definition. It may also called a dicdef. Dicdefs are short definitions and are often moved to the Simple English Wiktionary.
Even if you don't have the time to make a subject into a full featured article, it's okay to create an adequate stub. A sentence or two is often not enough to consider something as a stub. All of the following help in making a good stub article:
- Provide Enough information to tell readers what the subject of the article is about. If it is a biography, tell when the person was born, what they did and why they are notable (e.g. won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1922 for the movie ...). If this is explaining a concept, tell enough about it so the reader understands what it is. If it is a geographic subject, give a complete description of where it is located including the country.
- A Biography of a living person has special requirements. Do not include ethnicity, religion,anything controversial or sensitive without a reliable inline source citation!
- Articles start with a brief lead section to introduce the subject. A stub can often be the lead section of an article. If more than a lead, the rest can be separated into sections later when the article is improved.
- Adequate context, keep in mind that articles with very little or no text usually end up being Quick Deleted
- A good {{stub}} tag. Try, for example, {{movie-stub}} for a movie. (You can see a full list of stub categories.
- At least one good category (and if you can do one you can probably do two)
- At least a couple of sources are valuable in preventing the article's deletion. The sources should verify the statement (not just part of it). Using two or more sources in combination to verify a statement is called synthesis and is not permitted. A plain Google search may provide some reliable sources, but they will likely be buried within many more unreliable ones. Google News, Books, and Scholar provide the most reliable sources that are useful for establishing notability. Don't just provide links to these sources, cite them to make it clear where your information came from.
- an orphan is a stub or article not linked to any other articles. A good stub should have links to words not in Basic English. When linked to other Simple English Wikipedia articles, it is no longer orphaned.
- If a stub does not say why it is notable it may be quickly deleted. A subject that is not notable is not worthy of an article.
- One of the best ways to select notable subjects is by choosing one from Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have/Expanded. They're already notable.
- Do not directly copy copyrighted materials from other web pages. When someone writes and publishes something, copyright is automatic. It does not need a copyright notice to be protected. However, most authors want to make it clear they are claiming copyright protection for their intellectual property (their ideas or specific way they wrote them). Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted information without express written permission by the owner of the copyright. Editors may use facts from other sources and write them in their own (Simple English) words. A source citation (since the editor knows where the information came from) is then added to show readers where it came from. It also credits the source of the information. Facts cannot be copyrighted, but a person's unique expression of those facts is protected.
Not necessary but helpful:
An image or picture is an important part of any article's presentation. Images inform readers by providing visual information. Wikipedia:Image use policy says we use only images from Wikimedia Commons. They have a large collection of free images to link to your stub or full article. See Manual of style images for how to use images. Images should not take up more space than the text in a stub. If an editor wants to use more images, then add more text, source citations, etc. An article with very little text may be deleted whether it has pictures or not.
An infobox is a type of template used in articles (and occasionally in larger stubs). A template is another form of summary of key points or information in an article. An infobox sits on the top right of an article. It is helpful when there are a large number of facts in an article to summarize for the reader. An infobox is not a substitute for text in an article. Also an infobox is optional.
Articles from other Wikipedias:
- Articles may be copied from the English Wikipedia if editors follow Wikipedia:How to copy from another Wikipedia. The key to copying something from the English Wikipedia is simplification. Complex sentences need to be broken into two or more simple sentences. Complex words should be replaced with Basic English words whenever possible so that readers (children and those new to the English language) can understand them. Copy the code from the edit window to include links, source citations, and other code. Then test it here. A sandbox is ideal for copying articles from other wikipedias. There you can simplify them and add links. Be sure to delete any templates that are not supported here. Do not copy categories or delete them if you did. Categories from other Wikipedias are usually not supported here.
- Translations of articles in other languages should not be saved as an article. They often need cleanup for grammar, punctuation and words that translated incorrectly. Again, a sandbox is ideal for working on an article from a foreign language wikipedia.
If an editor is correctly copying an article from another wikipedia, it is usually a good idea to copy it in sections. Begin with the lead section, then add other sections based on that editor's concept of what the article should include. Editors do not need to copy every section of another article, just those they feel are necessary. Simplifying and adding links can take a little time. So editors should copy only as much as they can handle. But copying complex or confusing articles, sections, paragraphs and sometimes sentences as they are from another Wikipedia may get as article or stub deleted. The article may still be recreated, however, if it is done correctly.
Stubs are very short articles—generally just a few sentences or a couple of paragraphs. These are the "ugly ducklings" of Wikipedia. With effort, they can mature into "swans".
A work in progress...
The mention of a subject's name in an article (usually about something else) is not proof of notability.