Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub

Wikipedia:Index>Find or fix a stub

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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 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.

See also:

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

If you create a stub, add this 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 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

#

• Person:

• Place:

• Thing:

A

• Person: Active site -- Ahulane -- Sture Allén -- Annar -- Andhaka -- Atl -- Awha -- absentee landlord (original meaning) -- AICPA -- Anishinabe

• Place: Athens, Georgia -- Alamo

• Thing: Accelerator (computing) -- Acetoacetic acid -- Achondroplasia -- Air conditioning -- Alitalia -- allegro -- American Quarter Horse -- andante -- Arab -- Aramaic language -- Arecaceae -- analytic geometry -- anteater -- arctic fox -- animal shell -- Adposition -- Alveoli -- Artificial organ -- Autism

• Agricultural engineering

B

• Person: Steve Ballmer -- Ludwig von Bertalanffy -- Friedrich Bessel -- Hakim Bey -- Charles E. Blake -- Blue Oyster Cult -- Nicolas Bourbaki -- Terry Bradshaw -- Bernard Bresslaw

• Place: Bo Hai -- Boxing Day -- Brasilia -- Bruges -- Bodhi

• Thing: Barney & Friends -- Baud rate -- beauty -- Bongo -- Bridge piercing -- Business continuity planning -- links from Timeline of Buddhism -- birth defect

C

• Person: Cabaguil -- Cacoch -- Camazotz -- Camel (band) -- Mike Caro -- John Carroll -- Hayden Christensen -- Chrysler -- Chris Claremont -- Johnny Clegg (musician) -- listing of noted Confucianists -- Chris Cornell -- Raul Castro - Colossus (superhero) -- Culture (band)

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

• Thing: Confinement -- Communications channel -- Cement -- Chapter 11 -- Chemical composition -- Chipmunk -- The Club -- Corycian Cave -- Counterfeiting -- Cracker (TV series) -- crow -- Central nervous system -- cyst -- Cabbage Patch Kids -- calx -- Chemical composition -- Creation -- Comparative Historical

D

• Person: William Davenant -- Buddy DeSylva -- Annie Dillard -- Disciples of Christ -- Dou Xian -- Duellona -- Dutch Reformed Church -- Don Rosa -- Marcus Daly

• Place: Debrecen

• Thing: demethylation -- Denazification -- diffeomorphism -- Dispatch -- disposable income -- Document Editor -- Drama -- Durand line -- Displaced person -- Dead Man (movie) -- Decarboxylation -- Decoration - Deputy

E

• Person: End-user

• Place: Elizabethan era

• Thing: East Slavic languages -- Elvish language -- Endocytosis -- Epigram -- Error correction -- Espionage Act

F

• Person: Brad Fitzpatrick -- Stephen Foster -- First Fandom -- FASB

• Place: Five Points, Manhattan

• Thing: Faroese language -- Fosters Lager -- fsck -- fungible -- Freedom Press

G

• Person: Amy Grant -- Gaelic League -- Good ol' boy network -- girlfriend -- gnome -- GASB

• Place: Gaeltacht -- Groton, Connecticut -- Gujarat

• Thing: Genotype -- geometric distribution -- Girly girl -- gorilla -- Greek architecture -- Green River -- Growing Pains

H

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

• Place: hypothetical planet

• Thing: herbivore -- Hereditary -- History of Austria -- History of US immigration -- hotel -- hnefatafl -- Hydrocephalus -- hip -- Hydroxylysine

I

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

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

• Thing: The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother -- Industrialisation --- Informal economy -- Information technology (particularly pathetic stubs) -- Infusion -- Intuition -- Internet Information Server -- Interzone magazine -- Inventory

J

• Person: Joachim Nestor Hohenzollern -- Donald Johanson -- Duane Johnson -- Judgment notwithstanding verdict

• Place: Jiankang

• Thing: Jazz-rock fusion -- Johns Hopkins Hospital

K

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

• Place: Karnataka -- Khamis Mushait

• Thing: kimchi -- King Rat -- kunstlerroman

L

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

• Place: Lisbon

• Thing: Labor (economics) -- Lawsuit -- Lewis acid -- lost work -- Love Hina -- Ludic -- Lupus Erythematosus -- Lyrics -- Lex -- Lexx -- LUCA

M

• Person: Chris Marker -- Matsushita -- Daniel McFadden -- Melissa -- Metztli -- Miami tribe -- Luca Miti -- Talia Monet -- Andy McCoy -- Medica Mondiale

• Place: Mora, Sweden -- Mount McKinley -- Mount Saint Helens

• Thing: Mario Kart Super Circuit -- Mass media -- Maze generation algorithm -- MeatballWiki -- medieval music -- Metal detector -- Metabolism -- Metric time -- Millinery -- Millipede (game) -- Mongoose -- monkey -- Mora (linguistics) -- more (UNIX command) -- mores (sociology) -- Movie camera -- Multi-user -- Muckraking -- Mura languages -- Microsoft Passport --

N

• Person: Nacon -- Napalm Death -- Edwin Newmann -- Nick Nolte -- Oliver North

• Place: National Zoo -- Nice

• Thing: name -- Nell -- Newsprint -- Nilo-Saharan languages -- Nobility -- Nothing -- Nucleoside -- NURBS -- Neural tube

O

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

• Place:

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

P

• Person: Ann Paxton -- Pet Shop Boys -- Laurence J. Peter -- Pitchshifter (band) -- Roy J. Plunkett -- Dilys Powell

• Place:

• Thing: Pacemaker -- 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 -- Polytechnic -- Pomacanthidae -- Potlatch -- Printing -- Profit -- Psychological pain -- psychotherapy

Q

• Person: Seabury Quinn

• Place: Queenstown, New Zealand

• Thing: Quick-and-dirty

R

• Person: Rabbi Akiva -- Yitzhak Rabin -- Jacob Radcliff -- Ravi -- David Ricardo -- Emperor Rokujo of Japan -- Nellie Tayloe Ross -- Ahmed Ressam -- Romano Prodi

• Place:

• Thing: Radiotherapy -- RC5 encryption algorithm -- Rhyme -- Rhythm -- rogue-o-matic -- Continental Rationalism -- Retailer -- Rapira programming language -- Reverse osmosis (Biology) -- Rise of the Robots -- Ridolfi Plot

S

• Person: Sai Baba -- Saint Michael -- Saint Stephen -- Léopold Senghor -- William H. Seward -- Sex worker -- Alan Sillitoe -- Long John Silver -- Sors -- Stephen Bourne -- Sun Quan -- Loretta Swit -- Devon Sawa -- Sangoma

• Place: Saigon -- Serengeti National Park -- South African Republic

• Thing: sampler -- Sandhi -- scatology -- Scots Gaelic language -- seaweed -- seismology -- sesame seed -- sestina -- sky -- Sleepless in Seattle -- social psychology -- socionics -- somatic cell -- sore throat -- spectralism -- spine (anatomy) -- storm -- sugoroku -- Sum of Logic -- Symbian OS

T

• Person: Talocan -- The Offspring -- Tohil -- Tomboy -- Patrick Troughton -- Jun Tsuji -- Barbara W. Tuchman -- Transmeta -- Teacher -- Franjo Tudjman -- Takashi Miike (Japanese filmmaker) -- The transplants

• Place: Teheran, Iran -- Thane -- Tourist attraction -- Transjordan -- Tristan da Cunha

• Thing: Tango -- tell -- testa -- Tetum -- Thalamus -- That Hideous Strength -- Thermometer -- Thimerosol -- Time management -- Times New Roman -- Tisane -- Tolerance -- toy -- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus -- Transactivation -- Transportation on the Glorioso Islands -- Transportes Aereos Portugueses -- trial by jury -- Triennial Act of 1641 -- tuft

U

• Person: urban outdoorsman -- Ute -- Universal Music -- United Nations Foundation

• Place: Ulverston -- University of Massachusetts Boston

• Thing: UTFSM -- UNO

V

• Person:

• Place: Vedea -- Visby

• Thing: VIA -- Velotaxi -- vodka

W

• Person: Wholesaler -- Ken Wilber -- Tim Wirth -- Ron Wyden

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

• Thing: Wahhabism -- Warhol worm -- Wedding -- Webzine -- Workaround

X

• Person:

• Place:

• Thing:

Y

• Person:

• Place:

• Thing:

Z

• Person: zealot -- Renée Zellweger -- Zacarias Moussaoui

• Place:

• Thing: Zarzuela