Wikipedia:Simple Stub Project

The Simple Stub Project is essentially a project to determine when a new stub type should be created. Initially, only very few stub types should be created for common topics such as writers, actors, bio's, etcetera. Only when a particular category has exceeded in maintaining an appropriate level of articles, will new stub types be created.

Articles should only temporarily sit in the category of {{stub}} for a brief period of time. Further categorization is needed to locate the stubs you prefer to expand. Locating these easily will be a benefit to this project.

New stubs

New stub types need to be addressed on the talk page before creating. Stub templates which have not been agreed on by the community may end up being deleted. If you want a new type created, please make sure that we have at least 1000 stubs to put into the category before posting. Stub templates are not created simply because they meet a numeric requirement. Other requirements include things like whether or not there is someone actively expanding articles in that topic area from stubs to full fledged articles. Ideally this would be you. As part of our mandate to be simple we try to keep our stub system as simple as possible and as generic as possible so the widest range of articles fit into them.

Sorting

Stubs are only meant to stay in the category temporarily. This is where sorting comes in. When you spot an article that only has {{stub}} on it, but may be a biographical article, you can add {{bio-stub}} to it, and this will make it easier for editors to locate a stub article. Your edit summary can look like this:

• Stub-sorting. [[Wikipedia:Simple Stub Project|You can help!]]

This will let others know what you are doing, and advertise our project, so that others may help.

While sorting stubs, if you notice something wrong with the article, try to fix it while sorting. Any problems such as an article needing a cat, image, infobox, commonscat (or sisterlinks), or even something as simple as bolding the first appearance of the subjects title in the intro.

Stub templates

General

• {{Stub}} - for all stubs that can not fit into any stub we have
• {{List-stub}} - for lists only (it redirects to {{Expand list}}, so only use list-stub for a very small list, and expand for a larger one you want more info added to; just like {{expand}})

Countries & Geography

• {{Geo-stub}} - all geographical locations (places, towns, cities, etc)
  • {{France-geo-stub}} - France geography topics.
  • {{US-geo-stub}} - United States geography topics.
• {{Asia-stub}} - for use with anything about Asia.
  • {{Japan-stub}} - for use with anything about Japan, except Japanese athletes.
    • {{Japan-sports-bio-stub}} - Japanese athlete biographies.
• {{Europe-stub}} - for use with anything about Europe.
  • {{France-geo-stub}} - France geography topics.
  • {{Switzerland-stub}} - for use with anything about Switzerland.
  • {{UK-stub}} - for use with anything about the United Kingdom.
• {{North-America-stub}} - for use with anything about North America.
  • {{Canada-stub}} - for use with anything about Canada.
  • {{US-stub}} - for use with anything about the United States, except people and geography.
    • {{US-actor-stub}} - United States actor biographies.
    • {{US-bio-stub}} - United States biography stubs.
    • {{US-geo-stub}} - United States geography topics.

Miscellaneous

• {{Food-stub}}
• {{History-stub}}
• {{Military-stub}}
• {{Politics-stub}}
• {{Religion-stub}}
• {{Transport-stub}} - any moving object (cars, bikes, ships, crafts, planes, rail, buses, trains, etc)

People

• {{Actor-stub}}
  • {{US-actor-stub}} - United States actor biographies.
• {{Bio-stub}} - all people, no matter who or what profession
  • {{US-bio-stub}} - American biographies
    • {{US-actor-stub}} - United States actor biographies.
  • {{Sports-bio-stub}} - people from with sport as profession
    • {{Japan-sports-bio-stub}} - Japanese athlete biographies.

Science

• {{Sci-stub}} - anything science related (all branches and their tools)
  • {{Biology-stub}}
  • {{Chem-stub}}
  • {{Math-stub}}
  • {{Med-stub}}
  • {{Physics-stub}}
  • {{Weather-stub}}

Sports

• {{Sport-stub}} - all sports and sports items, not people.
  • {{Sports-bio-stub}} - people with sports as a profession.
    • {{Japan-sports-bio-stub}} - Japanese athlete biographies.

Technology

• {{Tech-stub}} - All technology related stubs
  • {{Video-game-stub}} - Stubs to do with video games

The Arts

• {{Performing-arts-stub}} - general stub for the performing arts.
  • {{Actor-stub}}
    • {{US-actor-stub}} - Unites States actor biographies.
  • {{Movie-stub}} - all movie articles except people.
  • {{Music-stub}} - all music articles except people.
  • {{TV-stub}} - all television articles except people.
• {{Lit-stub}} - all literature articles except people.

Multi-stub tagging

• {{Multistub}} - use for articles that fall into multiple stubs.