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Almost every article in Wikipedia could do with some expansion. This page is for listing those stubs, substubs and other articles that have decent information, but that you find embarrassingly short or insufficient for an encyclopedia of the stature to which Wikipedia aspires.

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Sept 13-Sept 19

  • Tourism in Mexico — I filled in a couple of the sections and expanded the topics lists for the others, but it needs a lot more work. Thank you! — RJH 15:07, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Culpability - Talks only from the legal perspective. Needs contribution on moral perspective. -- Sundar 08:21, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)
  • Military courtesy - Needs either more detail, or links to more articles on various subjects. -FZ 15:37, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Apheresis -FZ 20:42, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Sept 6-Sept 12

August 29-Sept 5

August 22-28

  • Psychology of torture On cleanup for over 2 months, did some formatting but an expert is probably needed. rhyax 07:56, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Dairy - important worldwide food production topic... with two paragraphs. Tom- 15:11, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Neo-confederate - moved from cleanup: Who are these groups? Which ones are racist and which ones aren't? What is the history of this movement? Rvollmert 12:58, 2004 Aug 28 (UTC)
  • Fixed base operator - I've never worked at an airport and mainly paraphrased other information on the internet. Someone with some authority really needs to go over this and add anything necessary. Bastique 05:03, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Korea Jindo Dog - Needs info on origin and original purpose, size and weight, type of coat & other appearance things. Elf | Talk 00:08, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Yoik - very little information and possibly inaccurate. --Eequor 16:48, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Manych Canal - Only basic information given. Virtually nothing available on line. Arcturus 15:00, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Ito Noriko - Currently one sentence. Can't find any information online. Anyone familiar with Japanese literature? --Slowking Man 05:03, Aug 22, 2004 (UTC)

Some of these might have been already listed, however since I was the one who placed them into the expansion category, I am listing them now.

  • Alumn - Originally marked as a stub, but because of the length, I felt it should be worked on as a request for expansion. -- Allyunion 05:42, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Apse - This article seems to be a work in progress, but I suppose anyone who wants to contribute and know about this topic should help whoever is trying to finish it. -- Allyunion 05:42, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Canadian Labour Congress - This page was marked as a stub, but I felt it was too big for a stub. The original request for this article is "Please add info such as organizational structure and names of people currently in charge, etc." -- Allyunion 05:42, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Citibank - Citibank is a very notable corporation. I am surprised this article isn't longer. -- Allyunion 05:42, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Confederate States Army - This comes to me as a historical shock that this isn't a full article already! There appears to be no vandalism, it apparently has been expanded at all. -- Allyunion 05:42, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Conga - Poccil reverted my changes, requesting this to be a Wiktionary definition. Well, in my opinion, if it can't be expanded then it needs to be moved. -- Allyunion 05:53, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Daryl Hall - Notable person, someone should have Daryl Hall's music. -- Allyunion 05:53, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Palmach - Originally marked as a stub, this article is way too long to be a stub. However, whoever left the stub notice most likely intended for someone to expand the article further, so I've decided to list it here. -- Allyunion 05:53, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • President of the general council - This requires serious attention. This is listed on the Most wanted stubs with 95 links! It has not been touched for expansion or anything. -- Allyunion 05:53, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Is the heading an accurate translation of the French? 212.85.6.26 17:57, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

  • Sampan - A very notable looking article, worthly of expansion. I don't know anything about Sampans' myself, but someone else might. -- Allyunion 05:53, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

August 15-21

  • 1947 UN Partition Plan - The article says, "To make the committee more neutral, none of the Great Powers were represented", but doesn't elaborate which nations this refers to. Nor does it say what nations were on the UNSCOP, only saying that it was comprised of "several states". - Solers 01:04, 17 Aug 2004 (GMT+1)
  • Sharecropping system - A lot more can be said about it than the three lines in this article.--Alsocal 02:59, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Biological remediation - I created this months ago, but it's seen zero attention. Needs TLC from someone who knows more about biology than I do. --Slowking Man 04:52, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • Yuan Dynasty - important part of both Chinese and world histories, lots of information is missing. [[User:Colipon|Colipon -- (Talk)]] 18:06, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

August 8-14

August 1-7

July 20-31

July 19-20

  • Fanzines - has a section header for Comics and Graphic Art fanzines, but no content. These are an important type of fanzine, so I hope someone can step in and begin to lay out their history.
  • Dragon Empires - User:Zikar I'd like to see this really expanded apon, there is plenty of info out there.
  • James Clerk Maxwell - Minor additions to get this page to featured article. See the Talk page for what needs expansion
  • Boo.com - Fleshed out a basic article, but it could do with reviewing, grammar and spell checking etc. Think there's room for some more commentary as well. User:GregRobson
  • Soviet Navy - User:Jacoplane new addition, was on the list of most wanted articles. I created a basic stub, but could sure use some help!
    • The {{inuse}} tag was posted by User:N328KF at 12:45, on 2004 Jul 21, with no editorial activity since ??? Hmmm ....

June 26-July 8

Imperial Seal - important, currently deadend stub [[User:Avala|Avala★Talk]] 17:07, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Kinetophone - new, very stubby addition Ambivalenthysteria 02:54, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

In vivo staining - Moved from cleanup. The original request was by MGM. Guanaco 03:18, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Science fiction on television has a long and detailed history of the genre on British television, which I wrote for the page a couple of months ago, but only a single paragraph on American science-fiction television. When I did the edit adding all the details of British TV sci-fi history, I only left the stub paragraph for the US there as I assumed someone more knowledgeable about US TV sci-fi than myself would come along and add to it. Although there have been a couple of minor details added, it still looks embarrassingly small when compared to the section on UK TV sci-fi, which is rather unbalanced considering the American contribution to the genre. Angmering

Well, I've now done some research and added to this section of the article myself. I think it's okay, not as much context and background as the UK section, but more than enough basic history and information, I hope! Angmering 18:33, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Prose seems suprisingly brief, considering it encompasses such a large amount of literature, and when compared to the Poetry or Literature articles. Anyone with ideas? Some useful additions might be authors, their works, history, etc --Brendanfox 10:52, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)

June 16-21

Tomislav Nikolic and Boris Tadic - one of these men will become president of Serbia, but they don`t have good articles. Nikolic article is stub, and Tadic's article has to be written as text not with * * * and to add some more information


Photohydrogen - substub

I have been working on some medical issues (Gastroenterology). Some articles I began as stubs: fructose malabsorption, fructose intolerance, enterocytes, Neurogastroenterology, enteric nervous system. Dbach

Boston accent phonology - New article I've been working on, fairly complete, but complete enough? Poccil

RNase H, Deoxyribonuclease, DNase footprinting assay stubs, what are they used for? technical explanations?

Corrected and expanded the DNase footprinting assay stub. Dr. Strangelove 12:53, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Expanded RNase H; important in HIV and general; DNA replication; Dr. Strangelove

Media conglomerate expand

June 2-10

Peasant tiny microstub, lots to say about peasants -- not all were/are serfs

  • I've added in what little there was from the 1911 EB. Ben Brockert

A Secular Humanist Declaration - needs expansion.

town meeting got a bunch of help already. needs expansion in states other than MA and NH though. -- Bcordes 21:37, Jun 16, 2004 (UTC)

Dan Gable I started the initial page. More stuff needs to be added about his life and any other info that can be relivant to him. ZeWrestler 11:27 June 7, 2004 (UTC)

Montclair State University This is just a begining. I would like to see more information about the college here. ie: majors offered, academic buildings, campus life, ect... ZeWrestler 11:29 June 7, 2004 (UTC)

Cyborg theory - could use some expansion Voyager640 06:41, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

May 23-29

POTA - more information needs to be given about this important Act. Jam2k 18:27, 29 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Self-extraction

Game engine - needs more detail. Paranoid 17:38, 28 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Indian literature - needs more detail Jam2k 20:14, May 23, 2004 (UTC)

Bioacoustics - needs to be expanded, just a dicdef now.

Royal Lao Air Force - poor, one line stub.

RFA_Salviola (A502) needs table filled in.

Mobb Deep -needs expanding

May 18-21

Konnie Huq - stubby entry on British presenter. Want to see other presenting jobs and few more bio details added. - MGM 21:17, May 15, 2004 (UTC)

The Parkers - expand

Jane Child - expand - DOB etc

Catholic Church in Taiwan - proper formatting; grammar; stub (could use dates of founding, some history, maybe noted members of the church, etc.) Alcarillo Ren

Have expanded it; nice if someone else takes a look at it before this notice is removed. - Cnyborg 23:06, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Op-Ed very poor. - I have done some work, but it is still poor. Needs more work by a journalist who knows about this sort of thing. David Thrale

  • Gave it a good stab, I think it looks better. Radagast 04:42, Jun 25, 2004 (UTC)

Diving disorders could be turned into an interesting article, but it only lists stuff without much explanation of the physics behind them at the moment. I'd would like to see this expanded by someone knowledgeable on diving. MGM

Magnification - poor stub.

May 17

The Sound and the Fury Needs elaboration and analysis.

Pete Doherty A few more things could be added?

Synod of Bishops sub stub

Barbus - Ram-Man has set up a batch of excellent articles on fishes in this genus, but the material is mainly aquarium oriented and someone with a bit of technical background needs to rake through FishBase and add more ichthyological material. I'd do it myself but I am still bogged down in IDing possible additions to the List of San Francisco Bay Area wildflowers. seglea

  • I intend to do just this at some point, as the articles are works in progress. -- RM

Myrmica rubra an article we need but this is a substub, needs everything seglea

Dhanraj Pillay Very little information. Needs to be rewritten by someone who really knows about field hockey Jam2k

Gallery Black Swan - could use some more information (and perhaps a pic)

Culture of Saudi Arabia - only has a brief discussion of modern architecture

May 12-16

Short circuit - maybe a diagram would help. The language used is a little too technical for a phrase which everyone knows but does not necessarily know exactly what it means. --Decrypt3 17:26, May 16, 2004 (UTC)

I copyedited the piece to try to make it somewhat less technical. Not sure if a diagram would finish it off or not. --Bcordes 14:06, Jun 23, 2004 (UTC)

Theresa LePore

Rajputs - famous Indian community of pre-independence era. Needs more work.Jam2k 13:46, May 15, 2004 (UTC)

haptic - the haptic research field deserves more than just references to the adult industry

May 11

Blue Lagoon cocktail - requires expansion from just a recipe

Jamshedji Tata - This page was in very bad condition before I fixed it up. Someone had written a rough one-line description. I fixed it to an extent but still a lot remains to be written. Jam2k 19:49, May 11, 2004 (UTC)

Mustang (horse) - Hard to believe this didn't already exist! I added a teeny stub but it needs to be a full article. Elf | Talk 21:44, 11 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

May 8-9

References to the Cthulhu Mythos - I believe this article could contain some more information, since the Cthulhu Mythos is very wide and still influences several kinds of works. The article is also linked to only one page (Cthulhu Mythos), so if anyone could edit more pages to add Wiki links to it, it would be really nice. -Mackeriv 02:10, 10 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

White Night riots - response of gay community to murders of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. Anyone knows more about that?

Creature of statute - one sentence, needs expansion, preferablly by someone with legal/business knowledge

Goh Keng Swee - substub on "architect of Singapore economy"

Animal hides - expand

May 2-7

Unfair business practices

Escuela Moderna - one line stub

Tokyo Mew Mew- popular manga

Internet2 - would like to have more tech info on how it works

Chinese nobility - need to discuss nobility up to the end of the Qing Dynasty

April 24-28

Israel Putnam - only a two-line article for a prominent military figure

Latitat - substub (single sentence) - needs work from someone with legal knowledge. Silverfish

Nina Serrano - stubstub

Cornus of Denmark - this seems to be a list of plants, but does not explain which plants it is supposed to be about or why they are grouped here

Action Replay - Maybe should be turned into a link page for the tech term and the cheats term... plus more info needed.

April 18-21

Death Egg Has no info really.

  • Doubt it can be turned into a full article, please merge with Sonic. - MGM 11:48, Apr 23, 2004 (UTC)

Virtual ground much better now, but still a stub.

Virtual season - stubby, needs some info from person that knows more about it, should also be referred to in fanfiction - MGM 09:43, Apr 19, 2004 (UTC)

Visual J++ - include information on Sun's lawsuit, Microsoft's extensions, examples of those extensions.

New Democratic Party of Manitoba is just a stub. Needs to be expanded. Particularly needs information about the Manitoba CCF. AndyL 08:48, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

April 12-17

Indian reservation - seems to me there's a lot you could say about Indian reservations: history, organization and governance, current issues, future. Right now the section on reservations in the US is pretty much a stub attached to a short article on Canadian reserves and a list. - Nat Krause 13:29, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Rome - history jumps from 700-1800's as if nothing had happened. There was a sacking and quite a bit more... Pfortuny

Gene Kelly - someone with a background/interest in dance could really add a lot here about his influence; it's fairly basic right now. MisfitToys

Tobacco industry - just a table

John Toland - An interesting guy; could use some expansion.

Rigas Velestinlis-Fereos - sub-stub

April 10

J. G. Thirlwell - good interview at [1] for someone interested in expanding this article Denni

Can some exotic car fans fill in these entries which ended up here during the creation of the Porsche 928 entry.

Film soundtrack could do with some examples of good soundtracks, or a link to a List of film soundtracks -- Graham  :) | Talk

April 7-9

Philo Farnsworth - A major inventor and the article on him has been stuck as a stub for over two years now.

Legend tripping - would for anyone to add any sites you're aware of, with brief explanations of why they're there. Also, do any other countries have similar folk traditions?

History of India - there's a lot of empty sections here.

April 4

Thomas Mann - pretty meager.

Stuffed animal - only a few random facts

Library - embarrassingly incomplete (history, functions, economy, cultural impact ..)—Eloquence

Libyan desert - stub

Expertise Needs to be expanded or moved to Wiktionary. ··gracefool |☺ 04:26, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Public education history section needs expansion. ··gracefool |☺ 04:26, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

April 1-3

U.S. two dollar bill, U.S. five dollar bill, U.S. ten dollar bill, U.S. twenty dollar bill, U.S. fifty dollar bill, and U.S. hundred dollar bill Can you expand these articles by putting other milestones in the bills' histories?? You may use http://www.currencygallery.org as a reference tool. In addition, the $20 bill has pictures of both the front and the back, the $100 has a picture of the front, and the $5, $10, and $50 have no pictures at all. Can you please add some pictures in?? Also, if you have any milestones in their histories that date prior to the time of the Federal Reserve, please label them as "pre-Federal Reserve history", making the history currently mentioned designated as "Federal Reserve history". For the $1 bill, just use the Federal Reserve note page. 66.32.99.119 01:39, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

  • More milestones to the $50 bill's history were put up recently, but can you still try paralleling this with the other pages?? 66.32.136.74 00:38, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Fractional calculus & subpages. -- This is a main topic in the mathematics section that currently only scratches the surface of what is in the literature (listed on the page). Kevin Baas 21:47, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Primary color The psychological primary colors, which are mentioned at the entry for primary color at http://dictionary.reference.com and several Internet sites, as you can see by doing a Google search, are not mentioned here. 66.32.147.231 20:58, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)


March 20-31

Roman Catholicism's links with democracy and dictatorships This article needs to be finished. Much of it is written but much of it consists of point for notes on what needs to be written. Andylehrer 06:46, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Joshua B. Bolten -- a one liner Fuzheado

Body double - stub, link -- Khym Chanur

Eidetic memory - far too short. Someone wanna expand?

Temple Grandin - there should be some information here about her livestock welfare/management work, as she is being linked from ethology. http://www.grandin.com/temple.html has some useful stuff. also the books should be updated to include those written regarding animal behavior. Ansate 20:43, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

National myth -- Looks promising, but needs expanding. <KF> 01:32, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

March 1-19

Cricket in India: I've put in what I know, but needs a lot more, especially on recent years.--ALargeElk 13:47, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Scotland Yard (band) - Ancient sub stub.

Beyond the Veil - substub

February

Orlando Bloom Nothing wrong with this page but it would be good to have more content here - this is a major pull for new users - see What Google Likes. akaDruid 14:05, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Is the image really fair use? ··gracefool |☺ 04:15, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Petrus Plancius - sub-stub Isomorphic

Archibald MacLeish - I created this from Most Wanted Pages. The biography is solid, but I don't know literature so the discussion of his actual work is embarassingly short. If someone with more literary knowledge could expand it, that'd be appreciated. Isomorphic 15:39, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Also add a list of his works ··gracefool |☺ 04:42, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Gestalt Therapy - at least has a stub now. (Not only do the Germans have a word for it, they have a lengthy article.) -- zig 19:18, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Cinema of Japan - history needs to be fleshed out; needs treatment of endemic genres (samurai, yakuza, pinkku); lots of links' targets are stubs. Nateji77 07:18, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Joseph Bologna - stub

Arabic literature only a short list of authors and a brief bibliography

Sahara Much remains to be said about this vast place; needs loving attention. (Feb 2004)

Sacred art - Needs more informed detail, particularly examples from before and after the Renaissance. +sj+ 11:11, 2004 Feb 22 (UTC)

January 21-31

Unified Silla, added very basic information only, more inputs required. sjc196 11:36, 30 Jan 04

Canadian poetry -- very much a stub. Bmills 15:54, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Bengali poetry -- currently an intro and TOC. Bmills 15:54, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Slovak poetry -- another stub. Bmills 15:54, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

January 1-20

Operation Just Cause – good info right now, but a background information is needed; such as explaining the U.S. obligation at the time of protecting the Panama Canal Zone. There is a good reference pointed in the article, hope that helps. Maio 05:42, Jan 16, 2004 (UTC)

Battle of the Little Bighorn - It doesn't talk about the battle, just the events leading up to it and the aftermath after it. After reading it, I felt let down. Gentgeen 06:47, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Comedy film: User Koyaanis Qatsi makes this great suggestion..."Maybe we could start with a historical overview of comedians in the silents, going through to early talkies and different movements (physical comedy, intellectual comedy, etc. and their overlaps). On through to maybe absurdist & postmodern comedy." Wish someone could or would. Kingturtle 07:56, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

History of literature - Although the title suggests this topic is so all-encompassing it could have its own wiki, we might succeed in giving a well-balanced survey no longer than the usual article of that kind. Right now, however, this seems to be work in progress abandoned by a sadly missing Wikipedian. --KF 22:48, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

December

SCO v. IBM is now way behind events, in particular the recent court hearing related to discovery. -- The Anome 13:04, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Syracuse - I was frankly amazed at how little there is on this city and its history. Sarge Baldy 07:59, Dec 9, 2003 (UTC)

  • The same could be said of any number of Ancient Greek cities (Corinth, and Ephesus immediately come to mind)

November

List of classical music competitions - Please add some, very stubby right now. Tualha 23:07, Nov 14, 2003 (UTC)

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