Wikipedia:Tip of the day/December 3, 2008

Finding stubs and making them grow

A stub is an article that provides at least a basic definition but does not go much beyond it. It may not be the perfect article yet, but the perfect stub should have the potential to become one. See Find or fix a stub for ways to locate stubs. For example, click "What links here" on that same page, or on Template:Stub (the stub notice). Still not enough stubs? Then try Requests for page expansion, or set the "threshold for stub display" in your user preferences. That option sets a number of characters threshold value. Links to articles with fewer characters are shown in dark red. This makes it very easy to spot stubs.

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