Unreal Wiki:Stub - Revision history

Wormbo at 15:38, 24 February 2008

2008-02-24T15:38:53Z

Wormbo at 22:52, 18 February 2008

2008-02-18T22:52:58Z

Wormbo: adding stub templates and locating stubs

2008-02-18T15:56:30Z

adding stub templates and locating stubs

Wormbo: info about tagging pages and sections as stubs; this should really be the Stubs category page

2008-02-18T14:23:40Z

info about tagging pages and sections as stubs; this should really be the Stubs category page

Haarg: 1 revision(s)

2008-02-17T18:39:06Z

1 revision(s)

Raffaello9: basic information

2007-08-11T09:03:23Z

basic information

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A stub is a short article which contains a few sentences of text, which is too short to provide extended coverage of a subject, but not so short as to provide no useful information. Bigger articles are usually not considered stubs, even if they lack style, format or copy editing.

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	* Setting the threshold for "stub link" formatting on the '''Misc''' tab of your [[Special:preferences\|preferences]] to a small number displays links to pages with less than that number of characters in a special color		* Setting the threshold for "stub link" formatting on the '''Misc''' tab of your [[Special:preferences\|preferences]] to a small number displays links to pages with less than that number of characters in a special color

−	[[Category:~~Stubs~~\| ]]	+	[[Category:Policies and guidelines\|{{PAGENAME}}]]

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 == Marking Stubs ==
-After writing a short article or finding an unmarked stub article, you should insert a ''stub template''. Use {{[[template:editor-stub|editor-stub]]}} for stub pages related to [[UnrealEd]] features, {{[[template:api-stub|api-stub]]}} for stub pages about class and interface descriptions, and {{[[template:stub|stub]]}} for other stub pages.
+After writing a short article or finding an unmarked stub article, you should insert a ''stub template''. Use {{[[template:editor-stub|editor-stub]]}} for stub articles related to [[UnrealEd]] features, {{[[template:api-stub|api-stub]]}} for stub articles about class and interface descriptions, and {{[[template:stub|stub]]}} for other stub articles.
 == Removing Stub Status ==
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 == Locating Stubs ==
-* [[:Category:Stubs]]
+* [[:Category:Stubs]] contains all articles explicitly marked as stubs
-* [[Special:Shortpages]]
+* [[Special:Shortpages|Short pages]] lists articles sorted by length, shortest articles first

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-A stub is a short article which contains a few sentences of text, which is too short to provide extended coverage of a subject, but not so short as to provide no useful information. Bigger articles are usually not considered stubs, even if they lack style, format or copy editing. Such pages are listed under [[:Category:Pages Needing Cleanup|Pages Needing Cleanup]] or [[:Category:Pages Needing Wikification|Pages Needing Wikification]].
+A stub is a short article which contains a few sentences of text, which is too short to provide extended coverage of a subject, but not so short as to provide no useful information. Bigger articles are usually not considered stubs, even if they lack style, format or copy editing. Such articles should usually be tagged with a [[Project:Cleanup|cleanup template]] instead of a stub template.
-If you have additional information about the subject, you can simply edit the stub page or section to expand it.
+== Marking Stubs ==
-You might spot a stub page or section that is not labeled as a stub yet and you have no additional information to add. In this case you should add the <code><nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki></code> or <code><nowiki>{{sectstub}}</nowiki></code> template to the page or section respectively to include it in the list of stubs.
+After writing a short article or finding an unmarked stub article, you should insert a ''stub template''. Use {{[[template:editor-stub|editor-stub]]}} for stub pages related to [[UnrealEd]] features, {{[[template:api-stub|api-stub]]}} for stub pages about class and interface descriptions, and {{[[template:stub|stub]]}} for other stub pages.

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−	A stub is a short article which contains a few sentences of text, which is too short to provide extended coverage of a subject, but not so short as to provide no useful information. Bigger articles are usually not considered stubs, even if they lack style, format or copy editing.	+	A stub is a short article which contains a few sentences of text, which is too short to provide extended coverage of a subject, but not so short as to provide no useful information. Bigger articles are usually not considered stubs, even if they lack style, format or copy editing. Such pages are listed under [[:Category:Pages Needing Cleanup\|Pages Needing Cleanup]] or [[:Category:Pages Needing Wikification\|Pages Needing Wikification]].
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		+	If you have additional information about the subject, you can simply edit the stub page or section to expand it.
		+	You might spot a stub page or section that is not labeled as a stub yet and you have no additional information to add. In this case you should add the <code><nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki></code> or <code><nowiki>{{sectstub}}</nowiki></code> template to the page or section respectively to include it in the list of stubs.

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