Anabaptistwiki:Stubs
Basic Information
A article stub is an article that does provide enough information for encyclopedic coverage of a subject but is not too short to provide some useful information. While most articles are never complete and can be improved upon, articles with significant information are not considered stubs. If an article contains little information relevant to the Global Anabaptist church, then it will be deleted.
When you write a stub, try to provide enough information to make it easy to expand upon the article. Try to provide a useful context for the article. Do some general research and provide some initial descriptive information about the subject on the article page. For example, state where the group or organization is from, what it is noted for, and/or its size. Next, try expand upon this information. Link internally to related articles, or link externally to relevant websites. Include a bibliography of the sources that you have used and identify other sources that might be helpful for future research.
Remember, accurate yet incomplete information is better than no information at all. Stubs provide a foundation that editors who have more knowledge about the specific subject can build on later.
Marking an Article as a Stub
To mark an article as a stub insert the following template at the top of the article page: {{stub}}. This will notify the reader that the information is incomplete and that the reader should add more information as he or she is able. Moreover, this template will place the article in an article stubs category that lists all the article stubs that exist on the site.
To identify specific sections that are incomplete within a larger article that has significant encyclopedic information insert the following template under the section heading: {{Expand-section}}. This will notify the reader that a specific section is still incomplete.
Language Policy for Stubs
When you insert the {{stub}} template you place the article in an Article Stub category. The article stub category page contains a list of all the article stubs that need additional content. To ensure that Article Stubs are organized according to language, you should use a distinct article stub template for each different language. To do so, simply add the appropriate language code to the stub template. For example, if you want to identify a Spanish translation of an article as a stub insert the following template {{stub/es}}. To learn more about language codes click here.
Templates
The following are stub templates for English, French, German, and Spanish:
- English:
{{stub}} - French:
{{stub/fe}} - German:
{{stub/de}} - Spanish:
{{stub/es}}
Categories
While some articles may be complete in one language, they still may need to be translated into other languages. Listed below are category pages that list article stubs according to language.
- English Article Stubs: Category:Article stubs
- French Article Stubs: Category:Article stubs/fr
- German Article Stubs: Category:Article stubs/de
- Spanish Article Stubs: Category:Article stubs/es
