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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize and categorize stubs and stub categories. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. Everyone is welcome to help, for more information please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Project goals

This WikiProject aims primarily to sort stubs in the Wikipedia. To do this the project has the following aims:

  1. Better categorization of stubs
  2. Make sure that stub sorting does not get messy
  3. Ensure that stub categories attempt to remain at moderate sizes

Why is stub sorting important?

Stub articles are generally short and/or below the high Wikipedia standard. If they are not sorted, then it means they are less likely to be edited to higher quality as nobody necessarily knows the page is in need of attention. Even if a page is sorted into a category indicating it is in need of attention, such as the articles needing a cleanup, it is still not as good as putting it in a stub category. This is because stub categories attract experts in specific areas (chemists can see chemistry stubs for example), whereas generic cleanup/deadend categories do not.

Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is Wikipedia:Maintenance.

Structure

See Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub and Wikipedia:Stub categories for more information.

Policy

Stub criteria

New stubs

Important Article Links

Participants

Stub sorting methods

General rules

  • To put an article into a stub category, if it is a chemistry stub for example, change the existing stub tag (if it exists) from {{stub}} to {{chem-stub}} .
  • When sorted leave an edit summary like this: Stub-sorting. [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting|You can help!]].
  • It is common practice to put the tag at the very bottom of the article.
  • Please remember to use the list of stub categories to make sure you are putting stubs in the correct category.

Methods

  • However, it is sometimes more effective to Google search Wikipedia for key words that result in a list of uncategorised stubs for a given subject. This has the the advantage that people can stick to their own subject, it does have the disadvantage of churning up some results that are inappropriate though, and missing stubs that do not contain the key words. Remember it is often a good idea not to start at the beginning of the list of search results, as everybody will do that!

Here is a list of quick google searches, please add more:

Science


Art / Culture


Sport

Other


I would urge stub sorters to customise the above google searches to find something more specific, for example, adding "enzyme" rather than "biology" throws up a good few stubs.

Searches for disambiguation flags in titles (intitle:term) or URLs (inurl:term) also works sometimes. It won't catch a great percentage of the stubs, obviously, but the signal to noise ratio is usually better. This is also good for topics which often use similar names for articles, like record labels, which are very often called "something Records". Like this (these have recently been cleared, so they are only examples):

Note: When a stub has been sorted it may take some time before google notices, and therefore often searches find stubs that have been recently sorted, do not worry, google does will notice eventually.

Infoboxes

Use {{Wikipedia:Template messages/Stubs}} as an infobox for any project page, category page, or Wikipedia page.


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