Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub improvement

 Welcome to the Stub Improvement WikiProject! Our goal here is to get stubs built up into useful, well-sourced articles. Of all Wikipedia articles, % are currently stubs, approximately 0 articles.

What is a stub?
A stub is any article that has only basic information while omitting important aspects of the topic. There is no exact size that defines a stub, but most articles under 250–300 words will be considered stubs. Articles with more than 500 words are almost never stubs. Stubs are often tagged with a stub template at the bottom of the article; when the article is expanded, this template should be removed. Articles may also be classified as stubs on talk page banners, and these banners should be updated as well.

How to participate
Participating is simple:

What sort of stub will you improve today?
 * 1) Pick a stub.
 * 2) Find one or more reliable sources about that topic.
 * 3) Summarize those sources in the article.
 * 4) Once it's no longer a stub, list it as a success at The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge.


 * Culture
 * Education
 * Geography
 * History
 * Law
 * Military
 * People
 * Philosophy
 * Politics
 * Religion
 * Science
 * Society
 * Spirituality
 * Sports
 * Technology
 * Time
 * Transport


 * Advanced list
 * Vital stubs
 * Vital stubs

Long stub articles
 * Database reports/Long stubs, a weekly bot generated report of long articles with stub tag.
 * If stub can be removed, do so:
 * Edit Summary:
 * Run Rater article assessment tool and update WikiProject Class/Importance as needed. Note: the ORES prediction percent is an estimate and may not always be accurate, so use your best judgement for WikiProject Class, Importance. Stub-class

PetScan filter for stub-class articles For Stub-class articles, here is a PetScan example to create a smaller group of articles from a large category.
 * Depth: 1 Categories: Stub-Class football in France articles (Note: over 8,000 articles)
 * Page properties:
 * Namespaces - add Talk Size - Smaller or equal - 100 ( Results = 247 ) Redirects - No, No, No
 * Output: HTML or Plain text Sort: by title

Since the Stub class is set on the article's Talk page, review each article for a missing stub tag (to add) if needed; or if the article is improved, remove the stub tag and upgrade to class "Start" or higher.

Essays

 * Abandoned stubs
 * An unfinished house is a real problem
 * User:Grutness/Croughton-London rule of stubs
 * Don't hope the house will build itself
 * One sentence does not an article make

Templates
This WikiProject does not use a WikiProject banner, as stubs are already designated through stub templates, and those are maintained at WikiProject Stub sorting. But we do have userboxes that you can place on your user page:


 * User:Sɛvɪnti faɪv/User Anti stub
 * Template:User Anti-stub WikiProject
 * Template:User WikiProject Stub improvement

Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Orphanage
 * WikiProject Reliability
 * WikiProject Stub sorting
 * WikiProject Unreferenced articles

Related categories

 * Category:All articles lacking reliable references
 * Category:All articles with unsourced statements
 * Category:All articles lacking sources