Wikipedia:Stub: Difference between revisions

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== Essential information ==

A stub is an article that is too short, but not so short as to be useless. In general, it must be long enough to at least define the article's title, which generally means 3 to 10 short sentences. Note that even a longer article on a complicated topic may be a stub; conversely, a short article on a topic of narrow scope may not be a stub.

YOU ARE ALL GAY

Thorpey sucks off big ones

Another way to define a stub is an article so incomplete that an editor who knows little or nothing about the topic could improve its content after a superficial Web search or a few minutes in a reference library. An article that can be improved by only a rather knowledgeable editor, or after significant research, may not be a stub.

Sizeable articles which lack [[Wikipedia: Glossary#W|wikification]] or [[copy editing]] are generally not considered stubs, and the normal procedure is for one of the [[Wikipedia:Cleanup resources|cleanup tags]] to be added to them, instead. Note that small articles with little information may end up being nominated for [[Wikipedia:Deletion|deletion]] or be [[Wikipedia:Merge|merged]] into another relevant article. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, but has a sister project—the [[Wiktionary]]—which is. If your article is very short consider either moving it to the Wiktionary or, even better, adding some more information to it.

=== Removing stub status ===