Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub

A stub on Wikipedia is a very short article, generally of one paragraph or less. Most people hate stubs, even though they are a probably a necessary evil: many excellent Wikipedia articles started out as stubs.

The software can automatically mark short entries if you set the Threshhold for stub display higher than 0. This makes it easy to find or fix a stub. See Special:Preferences.

Here are tips on how to write a good stub.

If you can't think of anything better to do, you can:

• search for stub articles and then list them here,
• better yet – fix one by adding more detail, or
• go through this list and remove links to articles that are no longer very short.

See also: Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs.

Feel free to add any you find or create, or delete the ones that have been fixed.

This list generally follows the following format:

Letter

• Persons (by family name), groups of persons, and companies

• Places and times

• Things, ideas, and not-yet-categorized stubs

A

• Ahulane -- Sture Allen -- Othmar Ammann -- Andhaka -- Mike Atherton -- Atl -- Awha

• absentee landlord (original meaning) -- Acetoacetic acid -- Achondroplasia -- Affirmative action -- Ageing -- Air conditioning -- allegro -- American Quarter Horse -- Antibody -- andante -- Arab -- Aramaic language -- Arecaceae -- analytic geometry -- anteater -- arcade game -- arctic fox -- animal shell

B

• Friedrich Bessel -- Ludwig von Bertalanffy -- Terry Bradshaw

• Bo Hai -- Boxing Day -- Brasilia -- Bruges

• Bankruptcy -- Base pair -- Baud rate -- beauty -- blood -- Blue Oyster Cult -- Bee -- Bongo -- Bridge piercing -- Ostap Bender -- Business continuity planning

C

• Cacoch -- Cabaguil -- Camazotz -- Camel (band) -- Anders Celsius -- Hayden Christiansen - Chrysler -- Congregationalist Church -- Constantine II of Scotland -- Crowded House -- listing of noted Confucianists

• Cairo -- Crete -- Chiapas -- Corycian Cave

• Cement -- Chapter 11 -- Chipmunk -- Counterfeiting -- Cracker (TV series) -- crow

D

• DaimlerChrysler -- Decoration -- Disciples of Christ -- Dou Xian -- Duellona -- Dutch Reformed Church

• decarboxylations -- demethylation -- Denazification -- diffeomorphism -- disposable income -- Document Editor -- Keno Don Rosa -- Drama

E

• A.K. Erlang

• East Slavic languages -- Elvish language -- Endocytosis -- End-user -- Epigram -- error correction -- Elizabethan era -- Expressionism

F

• Brad Fitzpatrick -- Foo Fighters -- Freedom Press

• Faroese language -- First Fandom -- Fosters Lager -- fsck

G

• Amy Grant -- Gaelic League -- Good ol' boy network

• Gaeltacht -- Groton, Connecticut -- Gujarat

• genotype -- geometric distribution -- gnocchi -- gnome -- gorilla -- grapefruit -- Growing Pains

H

• Henry the Young King

• herbivore -- Hereditary -- hetman -- hole (band) -- hotel -- hyperbola -- hypothetical planet

I

• Insane Clown Posse -- Isten

• Informal economy -- Information -- Information technology (particularly pathetic stubs) -- Infusion

• Intuition -- Internet Information Server -- Interzone magazine -- Irish Gaelic language -- Iron Age

J

• Joachim Nestor Hohenzollern -- Duane Johnson

• Jiankang

• Jaggies -- Jazz-rock fusion

K

• Willem Hendrik Keesom -- K'in -- Leleti Khumalo

• Khamis Mushait

• Karnataka -- Kinetic theory

L

• James Lind -- Konrad Lorenz

• Lisbon

• Labor (economics) -- Lawsuit -- Leaf -- Lex -- Lexx -- lost work -- Love Hina -- Lupus Erythematosus -- Lyrics

M

• Miami tribe -- Maori -- Chris Marker -- Matsushita -- Daniel McFadden -- Metztli -- Talia Monet -- Thelonious Monk

• Montana

• Mario Kart Super Circuit -- Mass media -- medieval music -- Methodist Church -- Metabolism -- Metric time -- Millipede (game) -- monkey -- mores (sociology) -- more (UNIX command) -- mouse -- Multi-user

N

• Nacon -- Napalm Death -- Edwin Newmann

• Newsprint -- Nice

• Nilo-Saharan languages -- nothing -- NURBS

O

• Ostrogoth

• operand -- Outcome-based Education -- Oil painting

P

• Pitchshifter (band) -- Jerry Pournelle -- Roy J. Plunkett -- Pheidippides

• Poissy

• Pacemaker -- Parchment -- Pathogen -- Phenotype -- Pholidota pangolin -- Phocidae (earless seals) -- Poetry (a lot of links to stub articles here) -- Polish war myths -- Polytechnic -- pottery -- Printing -- Psychological pain -- psychotherapy -- Public key cryptography

Q

• quick-and-dirty

R

• Yitzhak Rabin -- Rapira programming language -- Ravi -- David Ricardo -- Emperor Rokujo of Japan -- Nellie Tayloe Ross

• Red Sea

• RC5 encryption algorithm -- Computer rendering -- Rhyme -- Rhythm -- rogue-o-matic -- Continental Rationalism

S

• Saigon -- Saint Andrew -- Saint David -- Saint George -- Saint Michael -- Saint Stephen -- Oskar Schindler -- Michael Schumacher -- Sors -- John Philip Sousa -- Ed Sullivan -- Loretta Swit

• Serengeti National Park -- South African Republic

• Sampler -- Scarecrow -- Scatology -- Scots Gaelic language -- seaweed -- Sega Master System -- serial number -- serialization -- Sestina -- Seismology -- sex worker -- social psychology -- Socionics -- Sum of Logic -- sweet potato -- storm

T

• William Howard Taft -- Talocan -- The Offspring -- Leon Theremin -- Tohil -- Transportes Aereos Portugueses -- Jun Tsuji -- Barbara W. Tuchman

• Teheran, Iran

• testa -- Testosterone -- Tetum -- theorem -- Thermometer -- Thought control -- Time management -- Tisane -- Tolerance -- Tourist attraction -- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

U

• United States Air Force -- University of Massachusetts Boston -- urban outdoorsman

• Ulverston

• UTFSM

V

• Vedea -- Diego Velasquez

• Visby

• Venn diagram -- Victorian era -- vodka

W

• Walt Whitman
• Wedding

Z

• Zarzuela -- zealot

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