User:GloryRoad66/Advice for adding tags

Names and "Cleanup", stubs and dab pages
Hallo Garagepunk66, I've noticed a few pages while stub-sorting, such as Umansky, where you've tagged a given-name or surname page as "Cleanup: Topic may not be suitable for an encyclopedia". In fact the encyclopedia has probably thousands of pages about individual given-names or surnames, some comprising just a list of name-holders (which is not a disambiguation page), and others going into a lot of detail about the origins and history of the name as such. Please don't waste your time by adding this tag.

A disambiguation page should not be marked as a stub, so if you find a page which you want to tag as a stub but which already has disambiguation, you need to decide which it needs, and remove the disambiguation template if you think it is a stub. If it's a dab page, don't label it as a stub. (Pages for multiple people with the same whole name such as "Jane Smith", including "Jane A. Smith" etc, are disambiguation pages; pages which list people who only have one name in common ("Jane" or "Smith") are stubs, and could be tagged more precisely as surname-stub, given-name-stub or just name-stub.

If you really feel that an article's topic is not suitable for the encyclopedia, then it isn't "Cleanup" you need, but Articles for Deletion. Happy Editing! Pam D  19:39, 14 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Similarly, please don't bother with "Cleanup:Needs expansion of text", as in Cedratine and others. That's called a stub! Pam  D  20:09, 14 January 2016 (UTC)


 * I'll take that into account. Thanks. Garagepunk66 (talk) 01:03, 15 January 2016 (UTC)