User:ClaudeMuncey
Programmer and Wiki fan --
Announcing SuperStubs. . .
What I have been doing lately (and have been having a lot of fun with) is to pick a "most wanted" page, or an empty link on a page I find interesting, and then roughing in something a bit longer than a stub, but not a full article yet. A SuperStub is usually made up of:
- a proper introductory sentence or two, as all good stubs have (including, if a person, birth and death dates, as well as full name)
- bullet point list of "notes toward an article"
- if person, quotes (if available)
- bullet point list of links for further research
What I try to do as well is fully wikify the entries, and to do some basic reference cleanups or redirects as necessary. This ensures that those who are most likely to flesh out the SuperStub to a full aricle will find it.
The advantage is that they are fast to do, can often supply a substantial amount of information where there is none currently, and provide a start for a real article. Also, they help me avoid unconscious plagiarism of the sources through boiling the language down to the basic facts.
These seem to be working out well, ane the best part is when you see someone else take off with it from there.
I'm working on the following
Contribuiting to
SuperStubs started (see above)
- Anthony Quinn
- Billy Wilder
- Laurence Olivier
- Lew Wallace
- Merced, California
- Russo-Japanese War
- Sophia Loren
- T E Lawrence
Stubs started
Looking at working on pages