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 -- Andhaka -- Atl -- Awha
- absentee landlord (original meaning) -- Acetoacetic acid -- Achondroplasia -- Affirmative action -- Air conditioning -- allegro -- American Quarter Horse -- Antibody -- andante -- Arab -- Aramaic language -- Arecaceae -- analytic geometry -- anteater -- arcade game -- arctic fox -- animal shell
B
- 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) -- John Carroll -- Anders Celsius -- Hayden Christiansen - Chrysler -- Congregationalist Church -- Crowded House -- listing of noted Confucianists
- Cairo -- Crete -- Chiapas -- Corycian Cave
- Cement -- Chapter 11 -- Chipmunk -- Communications channel -- Counterfeiting -- Cracker (TV series) -- crow
D
- DaimlerChrysler -- Decoration -- Disciples of Christ -- Dou Xian -- Duellona -- Dutch Reformed Church
- Dead Man -- decarboxylations -- demethylation -- Denazification -- diffeomorphism -- Dispatch -- disposable income -- Document Editor -- Keno Don Rosa -- Drama
E
- East Slavic languages -- Elvish language -- Endocytosis -- End-user -- Epigram -- error correction -- Elizabethan era -- Expressionism
F
- Faroese language -- First Fandom -- Fosters Lager -- fsck
G
- genotype -- geometric distribution -- gnocchi -- gnome -- gorilla -- grapefruit -- Growing Pains
H
- herbivore -- Hereditary -- hetman -- hole (band) -- hotel -- hyperbola -- hypothetical planet
I
- Insane Clown Posse -- Isten -- IIT Madras -- IIT Bombay -- IIT Kanpur
- Informal economy -- Information -- Information technology (particularly pathetic stubs) -- Infusion
J
K
L
- Norman Lear -- James Lind -- Dénis Lindbohm -- Konrad Lorenz
- Labor (economics) -- Lawsuit -- Leaf -- Lex -- Lexx -- lost work -- Love Hina -- Lupus Erythematosus -- Lyrics
M
- Miami tribe -- Chris Marker -- Matsushita -- Daniel McFadden -- Metztli -- Talia Monet
- Mario Kart Super Circuit -- Mass media -- medieval music -- Metal detector -- Methodist Church -- Metabolism -- Metric time -- Millipede (game) -- monkey -- mores (sociology) -- more (UNIX command) -- Multi-user
N
- Nacon -- Napalm Death -- Edwin Newmann
- National Zoo -- Newsprint -- Nilo-Saharan languages -- Nothing -- NURBS
O
P
- Pacemaker -- Parchment -- Pathogen -- Phenotype -- Pholidota pangolin -- Phocidae (earless seals) -- Physical anthropology -- Poetry (a lot of links to stub articles here) -- Polish war myths -- Polytechnic -- pottery -- Printing -- Psychological pain -- psychotherapy -- Public key cryptography
Q
R
- Yitzhak Rabin -- Rapira programming language -- Ravi -- David Ricardo -- Emperor Rokujo of Japan -- Nellie Tayloe Ross
- 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 -- William H. Seward -- Sors -- John Philip Sousa -- Ed Sullivan -- Loretta Swit
- 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 -- Léopold Senghor
T
- William Howard Taft -- Talocan -- The Offspring -- Leon Theremin -- Tohil -- Tomboy -- Transportes Aereos Portugueses -- Jun Tsuji -- Barbara W. Tuchman -- Transmeta
- testa -- Testosterone -- Tetum -- theorem -- Thermometer -- Thought control -- Time management -- Tisane -- Tolerance -- Tourist attraction -- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus -- Franjo Tudjman
U
V
- Van Halen -- Vedea -- Diego Velasquez
- Venn diagram -- Victorian era -- vodka
W
X
Y
Z
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