WoWWiki:Find or fix a stub
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This page is considered a guideline on WoWWiki. It illustrates standards of conduct, which many editors agree with in principle. However, it is not policy.
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Throughout WoWWiki are articles with little or no content that have been created with the intention of filling them in. These are referred to as stubs and are tagged specifically to tell visitors that they are, in fact, stubs, and to make it easier for other contributors to find them.
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Marking articles as stubs
| Stubs Quicksheet |
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| WoW Gameplay |
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{{Stub/Ability}} |
| WoW Patches |
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{{Stub/PTR}} |
| WoW Community |
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{{Stub/Blizzard}} |
| Warcraft Universe |
| UI |
| Others |
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{{Stub/Accuracy}} |
| Administration |
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{{Stub/Admin}} |
According to the WoWWiki stub policy, editors and writers should tag unfinished articles as "stubs". These are templates that add the article to a stub category so that they can be tracked down later for further addition and expansion.
The {{Stub/<sub-category>}} tag can be used at the top of pages, as well as inside sections of the page.
The stub templates also provide a visual cue to visitors that this page is indeed not finished, and, who knows, it might prompt some of them to start contributing to WoWWiki!
| This article or section is a (something) stub. You can help expand it by editing it.
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- If you're stumped (pardon the horrible pun) as to which category to use, use {{Stub/Other}}, but please try to use one from the Stubs Quicksheet to the right (→).
Finding stubs
If you created a stub previously and need to find it again, or just want to help fill out some stubs, start looking in Category:Stubs. It contains a listing of all the stub categories – each of the different stub templates place articles in their own category, e.g. "Stubs/Item", "Stubs/Quest", etc.
Fixing a stub
- If you see a stub you'd like to work on, feel free to add to and edit it, but keep in mind the editing policy and the writing policy.
- Looking at the discussion page, or pages that link to the page ("What links here" link in the left hand toolbar), might give you valuable clues to what the page should contain.
- While working on the article, you should generally leave the
{{Stub/<sub-category>}}tag in.
- If you think the article you worked on is complete enough (has the basic information the article's title suggests), you can remove the stub tag.
Descriptions of stubs
Here follow detailed descriptions of when each type of stub tag should be used:
Current stubs in use at WoWWiki: [edit]
- WoW Gameplay
- {{Stub/Ability}} - Any article about a class ability, spell, or anything that the user triggers with a button. Not to be confused with talents.
- {{Stub/Item}} - Any page about an item.
- {{Stub/Location}} - Any location in the Warcraft universe - dungeons, instances, cities, zones, continents, etc.
- {{Stub/Mob}} - NON-interactive, non-player characters or monsters.
- {{Stub/NPC}} - Interactive non-player characters.
- {{Stub/Object}} - Any page about an object.
- {{Stub/Quest}} - Pages about specific quests.
- {{Stub/Strategy}} - A Strategy Stub for mobs, like instance bosses. Needed when there is a lack of strategies on a boss page.
- {{Stub/Talent}} - Any article about a class talent. Not to be confused with abilities.
- {{Stub/Tech}} - Article stubs related to game mechanics.
- WoW Community (policy related - WW:FANFIC)
- {{Stub/Blizzard}} - Articles related with Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard games or employees.
- {{Stub/Guild}} - Pages describing player guilds, role playing or otherwise.
- {{Stub/Player}} - Pages describing non-in-game player info.
- {{Stub/PC}} - Pages describing player characters, role playing or otherwise.
- Warcraft Universe
- {{Stub/Char}} - Pages describing any characters not in the game but in the lore (books or web) or in previous Warcraft games.
- {{Stub/Lore}} - Articles dealing with official World of Warcraft lore.
- UI
- {{Stub/API}} - A World of Warcraft API stub.
- {{Stub/UI}} - Other UI-related stubs.
- Others
- {{Stub/Accuracy}} - This refers to any article in which the accuracy of its contents is questionable and requires a fact check.
- {{Stub/Category}} - For categories required more pages to be categorised into it.
- {{Stub/Other}} - Anything that doesn't fit in the above categories.
- Administration
- {{Stub/Admin}} - Please do not use unless you know why you are doing so and are aware of the repercussions of that action.
Please do not use the uncategorized {{Stub}} tag on WoWWiki.
