Template:Stub

Template documentation

About this template

This template is used to identify a stub. It uses {{asbox}}, which is a meta-template designed to ease the process of creating and maintaining stub templates.

Usage

Typing {{stub}} produces the message shown at the beginning, and adds the article to the following category:

• Category:Stubs (population: 255)

Description

This template will categorize articles that include it into Category:Article stubs, and mark it with a noticeable template. This note is typically added to short pages to draw attention to them for expansion, and to invite readers and editors to add more.

Syntax

Type {{stub}} at the start or end of an article.

General information

This is a stub template. A brief explanation of these templates follows; for full details please consult Wikipedia:Stub.

What is a stub?

A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject.

How is a stub identified?

• If possible, try to find the most appropriate stub template for the article. A full list can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/List_of_stubs.
• More than one stub template may be used, if necessary, though no more than four should be used on any article.
• Place a stub template at the very end of the article, after the "External links" section, any navigation templates, and the category tags. As usual, templates are added by including their name inside double braces, e.g. {{stub}}.

Further information

Further information can be found at:

• Wikipedia:Stub
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting

New stub templates and categories (collectively "stub types") should not be created without prior proposal at Wikipedia. This allows for the proper coordination of all stub types across Wikipedia, and for the checking of any new stub type for possible problems prior to its creation.

See also

• Template:Empty section – To flag an empty section as a stub section
• Template:Expand section – To flag sections selectively as incomplete
• Template:Data missing – To flag missing information or other data
• Wikipedia:Content assessment

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Description

This template will categorize articles that include it into Category:Article stubs, and mark it with a noticeable template. This note is typically added to short pages to draw attention to them for expansion, and to invite readers and editors to add more.

Syntax

Type {{stub}} at the start or end of an article.