User:AlastairIrvine/info/stubs

A more generally useful thing is the category system.

Categories really help tie pages together. A gotcha comes with certain categories (e.g. ) that are not used directly; a special template (e.g. Template:Bird-stub in this case) is used that adds the original page to the category automatically.

Also be careful when linking to a category as this page does: the "Category:Bird stubs" link above is produced by:

(If a normal wikilink was used, it would have added this page to the category !)