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A stub on Wikipedia is a very short article, generally of one paragraph or less. Most Wikipedians hate stubs, which is undeserved. Many articles start off as stubs, and grow into more complete articles over time. Indeed, a long, rambling article may address a subject less thoroughly than a short, direct one. Quantity does not equal quality. In general, though, stubs usually fail to treat any but the most trivial subject completely.

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

(A tip: clicking on the "What links here" link will show all stub articles linked to this page, inclusive of ones that have not been included on this page's list.)

See also:

• Wikipedia:The perfect stub article.
• Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs
• Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention
• Wikipedia:Utilities for other helpful pages

Stub alert!

If you create a stub, add this boilerplate text to encourage other users to destubify the article:

''This article is a [[Wikipedia:The perfect stub article|stub]]. You can help Wikipedia by [[Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub|fixing it]].''

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Feel free to add any stubs 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

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• Person:

• Place:

• Thing:

A

• Person:ACCU -- Afghan National Museum -- Ahulane -- Sture Allén -- Annar -- Andhaka -- Virginia Apgar -- Aramis -- Artificial respiration -- Athos (fictional character) -- Atl -- Awha -- absentee landlord (original meaning) -- Anishinabe -- Ayumi Hamasaki -- An Jung-geun

• Place: Athens, Georgia

• Thing: accelerator (computing) -- acetoacetic acid -- achondroplasia -- active site -- allegro -- American Quarter Horse -- Annual -- Aramaic language -- Arecaceae -- Arecales -- analytic geometry -- Answering machine -- arctic fox -- adposition -- artificial organ -- Agricultural engineering -- Alal -- Anaire -- Asakku -- Air mass -- Amnon -- A Plus

B

• Person:Bad Company -- Steve Ballmer -- Barney & Friends -- Michael Barrymore -- Ludwig von Bertalanffy -- Friedrich Bessel -- Hakim Bey -- Black Orchid -- Charles E. Blake -- Blue Oyster Cult -- Terry Bradshaw -- Bernard Bresslaw -- Bert Bolin -- Connie Booth -- Christian Bohr -- Ramon Baldorioty de Castro -- Bonnie Burnard -- Rob Bourdon -- William Blackstone -- Boz Burrell

• Place:Bodhi -- Boxing Day -- Brasilia -- Bruges -- Barbican Estate -- Balmoral -- Bellingham railway station -- Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park -- Buenos Aires province -- Bobbejaanland

• Thing:Baud rate -- birth defect -- Bongo -- Bridge piercing -- Business continuity planning -- links from Timeline of Buddhism -- Bowen ratio - Babyasystem -- bushmaster -- Barcan formula -- Bine - Birthmark -- Banca d'Italia -- Battle of Dairen -- Blackpool F.C. -- Bunker

C

• Person:Cabaguil -- Cacoch -- Camel (band) -- Campus Watch -- Bryan Caplan -- Frank Carlucci -- Mike Caro -- John Carroll -- Hayden Christensen -- Chrysler -- Chris Claremont -- William Clark -- Johnny Clegg (musician) -- listing of noted Confucianists -- Chris Cornell -- Raul Castro - Colossus (superhero) -- Culture (band) -- Crinacus

• Place:Cairo -- Calleva Atrebatum -- John Carroll University -- Chinese University of Hong Kong -- The City -- Crete -- Cumberland Games and Diversions

• Thing:Cabbage Patch Kids -- calx -- CAM -- CAO -- catecholamine -- cement -- Chapter 11 -- Chautauqua Institution -- chemical composition -- The Club --Cobra_(snake) -- code fork -- communications channel -- Comparative Historical -- confinement -- Copperhead (possible disambig) -- Corycian Cave -- counterfeiting -- creation -- cyst -- cytoskeleton -- Caucus -- Certification -- Chieftain -- Christendom -- Clan -- Common ash -- Confusion

D

• Person:Buddy DeSylva -- Annie Dillard -- Disciples of Christ -- Dou Xian -- Duellona -- Dutch Reformed Church -- Don Rosa -- Marcus Daly -- Andrew Davies -- The Dictators -- Bob Denver -- Geraint Wyn Davies

• Place:Debrecen -- Dublin, Christ Church Cathedral

• Thing:Dell Inspiron -- demethylation -- Denazification -- diffeomorphism -- Dispatch -- disposable income -- Document Editor -- Double Zeta Gundam -- Drama -- Durand line -- Displaced person -- Dead Man (movie) -- Decarboxylation -- Deputy -- Dwarfism -- Dreaming -- US Drug Enforcement Administration -- Drunkard's walk -- Distributed memory -- Deinotherium (it's a prehistoric proto-elephant)

E

• Person:End-user

• Place:Elizabethan era -- East Fortune

• Thing:Earth: Final Conflict -- East Slavic languages -- Epigram -- Error correction -- Espionage Act -- Ebenaceae -- Eel ladder -- Erlenbach -- Egyptian mythology

F

• Person:Pompeu Fabra -- Free (band) -- freedman -- Brad Fitzpatrick -- Bruno Fuligni

• Place:Five Points, Manhattan

• Thing:Faroese language -- fieldwork -- Foramen magnum -- Fosters Lager -- fungibility -- Freedom Press -- Falas

G

• Person:Gaelic League -- Hugo de Garis --GASB -- girlfriend -- April Glaspie -- gnome -- Good ol' boy network -- Tom Guay

• Place:Gaeltacht -- Groton, Connecticut -- Gujarat -- Gera -- Gravenhurst, Ontario

• Thing:gamebird -- geometric distribution -- Girly girl -- GoldenEye (movie) -- golden retriever -- gorilla -- Greek architecture -- Greek statue -- Green River -- Growing Pains -- Gnat -- Guzalu -- Gaulish -- Gaumata -- Grand Alliance

H

• Person:Henry the Young King -- Harivanshrai Bachchan -- John Howard (actor) -- hetman -- hole (band) -- Haji Bashar -- Johns Hopkins -- Hladgunnr -- Hata Tsutomu

• Place: Hong Kong Baptist University -- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology -- hypothetical planet

• Thing:Hellblazer -- herbivore -- Hereditary -- History of US immigration -- hotel -- Humanism --Hydrocephalus -- hip -- Hydroxylysine -- hype (information technology) -- Hanbi

I

• Person:International Resources Group -- Isten -- Inter-Services Intelligence -- International Resources Group -- Ishmael -- Iman

• Place:IIT Madras -- IIT Bombay -- IIT Kanpur -- Iron Age

• Thing:Ideas of reference - Idril -- IEEE 802.6 -- Imaginary county -- The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother -- Industrialisation --- Informal economy -- Information technology (particularly pathetic stubs) -- Infusion -- Internet Information Server -- Interzone magazine -- Intuition -- Inventory -- It's all Relative (just a def.) -- Irish fiddling -- Indian English -- Introspector -- IRRI

J

• Person:Joachim Nestor Hohenzollern -- Donald Johanson -- Duane Johnson -- Jollibee -- Judgment notwithstanding verdict -- Justin Pierce -- Joey Smallwood

• Place:Jiankang

• Thing:Jazz-rock fusion -- Johns Hopkins Hospital -- Jesus Freak (accuracy?) -- Journaling

K

• Person: Willem Hendrik Keesom -- K'in -- Leleti Khumalo -- Tracy Kidder

• Place: Karnataka -- Khamis Mushait -- Kajang

• Thing: Kavalactone -- kimchi -- King Rat -- kunstlerroman -- Knots: (Midshipman's hitch, Timber hitch, Sailor's hitch, Pile hitch, Poldo tackle, Packer's knot, Corned beef knot, Alpine butterfly loop, Alpine butterfly bend) -- Kusanagi -- kawaii -- Kateretes -- Keykode -- Kh -- Khornerstone -- KL0 -- KL1 -- KLOC -- KL-ONE -- KMODEL -- KOMPILER -- KRL -- KUB

L

• Person: Celia Larkin -- Norman Lear -- League for Programming Freedom -- Albert Lebrun -- Meriwether Lewis -- James Lind -- Lityerses-- Jack Longland -- Erich Ludendorff -- Loretta Lynn --

Lil Bow Wow

• Place: Lingnan University

• Thing: Labor (economics) -- Lady Jane (movie) -- Lady's Slipper -- Lawsuit -- Lead styphnate -- Lewis acid -- List of female composers -- lost work -- Ludic -- Luganda -- Lupus Erythematosus -- Luteinizing hormone -- Lyrics -- Lex -- LUCA -- Lamashtu -- Lauraceae -- Loding -- Loess -- Lombok -- Lugier -- Lhop/Doya

M

• Person: Cameron Mackintosh -- John Mauchly -- Fazel Ahmed Manawi -- Matsushita -- Andy McCoy -- Daniel McFadden -- Melissa -- Metztli -- Miami tribe -- Bubber Miley -- Luca Miti -- John Monash -- Talia Monet -- Medica Mondiale -- Thurston Moore

• Place: Mesoproterozoic, Modern Japan -- Mora, Sweden -- Mount McKinley -- Mount Vernon (plantation) -- Lake Mithrim

• Thing: Magnavox -- Mandible -- Mario Kart Super Circuit -- Maxilla -- Mayan mythology links to some 150-odd stubs -- Maze generation algorithm -- MeatballWiki -- Metal detector -- Metabolism -- Millinery -- Millipede (game) -- Mongoose -- monkey -- Monterey Jack -- Mora (linguistics) -- more (UNIX command) -- mores (sociology) -- The Morning Star (British newspaper) -- Movie camera -- Multi-user -- Mura languages -- Microsoft Passport -- MLDonkey -- The Mummy (1932 movie) -- The Mummy (1959 movie) -- The Mummy (1999 movie) -- Mondino -- Mooney

N

• Person: Nacon -- Napalm Death -- Edwin Newmann -- Oliver North -- New Yorker

• Place: National Zoo -- Nice

• Thing: name -- Nell -- Nikita -- Nilo-Saharan languages -- Nobility -- Non-lethal -- Nothing -- Nucleoside -- Neural tube -- Ninurta -- Netwar -- New York Court of Appeals

O

• Person: Rockne S. O'Bannon -- Johnny O'Keefe -- Ottoman Empire -- Bill Ouchi

• Place:

• Thing: omnivores -- operand -- Operation Rolling Thunder -- Oil painting -- Okinawan language -- Oni -- Offshore construction -- OpenLDAP -- Operation Valiant Strike -- OSGi

P

• Person: Brock Peters -- Marcel Petiot -- Pet Shop Boys -- Laurence J. Peter -- Arthur Phillip -- Pitchshifter (band) -- Roy J. Plunkett -- Porthos -- Dilys Powell -- Richard Pryor

• Place: Paleoproterozoic, Isle of Portland -- Portoro Buono

• Thing: pangolin -- panicle -- Parchment -- Pathogen -- petuntse -- Phenotype -- Phocidae (earless seals) -- Pholidota -- Physical anthropology -- pinnate -- Poetry (a lot of links to stub articles here) -- Polish war myths -- Pollen -- Polytechnic -- Pomacanthidae -- Posthuman -- Potlatch -- PowerDVD -- Printing -- Prom -- Profit -- Psychological pain -- punishment -- Portland Admiralty Roach -- Portland Independent Top Whitbed -- Paphlagonia -- Phytopathology -- Picullus -- Patrilocality -- Pericardium -- Pizza Haven -- Prill -- Puck (magazine)

Q

• Person: Seabury Quinn

• Place: Queenstown, New Zealand

• Thing: Quick-and-dirty

R

• Person: Rothschild family -- Yitzhak Rabin -- Jacob Radcliff -- Mick Ralphs -- Ravi -- David Ricardo -- Emperor Rokujo of Japan -- Nellie Tayloe Ross -- Ahmed Ressam -- Romano Prodi -- Sen no Rikyu

• Place:

• Thing: Rap Metal -- RC5 encryption algorithm -- Rhyme -- Rhythm -- rockumentary -- rogue-o-matic -- Continental Rationalism -- Rapira programming language -- Rise of the Robots -- Ridolfi Plot -- Recalcitrant seed -- Ruble -- Rabisu -- Root -- Root (linguistics) -- Rosaviakosmos -- Rusalka

S

• Person: Sai Baba -- Saint Michael -- Saint Stephen -- Léopold Senghor -- William H. Seward -- Session -- Sex worker -- Long John Silver -- Sors -- Statler & Waldorf -- Stephen Bourne -- Sun Quan -- Loretta Swit -- Devon Sawa -- Sangoma -- Prunella Scales -- Bob Smith -- Samuel Skinner -- Saint Wenceslas

• Place: Sabine -- Saudi Arabia -- Serengeti National Park -- South African Republic -- Sea of Rhun -- Swords -- Sydney Greenstreet

• Thing: Sabbat (neopaganism) -- sampler -- Sandhi -- scatology -- Scots Gaelic language -- seaweed -- Secular humanism -- seismology -- sesame seed -- sestina -- Severe Combined Immunodeficiency -- sexual harassment -- sky -- Sleepless in Seattle -- social psychology -- socionics -- somatic cell -- sore throat -- spectralism -- spine (anatomy) -- storm -- styrofoam -- sugoroku -- Sum of Logic -- Suture -- Symbian OS -- Slug -- Shedu -- Sorcerer -- Southern California Surf -- Standing stone -- Sweetbread

T

• Person: Tohil -- Patrick Troughton -- Jun Tsuji -- Barbara W. Tuchman -- Transmeta -- Teacher -- Franjo Tudjman -- The Transplants -- The Fast and the Furious -- The P.T.L. Klub -- The Rangers -- The Renegades -- The Snowmen -- The Sunrays -- Rob Theakston

• Place: Talocan -- Tanzania -- Teheran, Iran -- Thane -- Tourist attraction -- Transjordan -- Tristan da Cunha --Trentino-South Tyrol

• Thing: -- tally mark -- tell -- testa -- Tetum -- Thalamus -- That Hideous Strength -- Thatching -- Thermometer -- Thimerosol -- The Three Musketeers -- Time management -- Times New Roman -- Tisane -- Tolerance -- toy -- Transactivation -- Transportation on the Glorioso Islands -- Transportes Aereos Portugueses -- trial by jury -- Triennial Act of 1641 -- tuft -- Turn-based gaming -- Tusk -- Thorondor -- The School of Night -- two hundred fifty-five

U

• Person: Ute -- Universal Music -- United Nations Foundation -- Leon Uris

• Place: University of Hong Kong -- Ulverston -- University of Massachusetts Boston -- Ural River

• Thing: UTFSM -- US television news

V

• Person: Luther Vandross -- Jacint Verdaguer -- Vomit Pigs

• Place: Vanaheim -- Vedea -- Visby

• Thing: VIA -- Velotaxi -- Verdandi -- vodka -- vowel shift

W

• Person: Otto Wallach -- Mary Jane Watson -- Caspar Weinberger -- Wholesaler -- Ken Wilber -- Tim Wirth -- Ron Wyden -- Bill Wilson

• Place: Waikato -- West Angeles Cathedral -- Wildland -- Workington -- Woodhenge

• Thing: Webzine -- Warhol worm -- The Wild Thornberrys -- WinDVD -- Workaround -- world peace -- Women's Land Army

X

• Person:

• Place:

• Thing:XFree86 -- XWin

Y

• Person:Yanka Dyagileva -- Yoshimichi Hara -- Yehiel DeNur

• Place:Yalta -- Ydalir

• Thing:yak -- YMHA -- Youth culture

Z

• Person:Zacarias Moussaoui

• Place:

• Thing:Zarzuela