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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize and categorize stubs and stub categories. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. Everyone is welcome to help, for more information please inquire on the talk page or see the to-do list.

1 Project goals
2 Why is stub sorting important?
3 Parentage
4 Structure
- 4.1 Guidelines and criteria
- 4.2 New stubs
5 Important article links
6 Participants
7 Stub sorting methods
- 7.1 General rules
- 7.2 Things to do
8 Project templates
9 See also

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Project goals

This WikiProject aims primarily to sort stubs in the Wikipedia. To do this the project has the following aims:

Better categorization of stubs
Make sure that stub sorting does not get messy
Ensure that stub categories attempt to remain at moderate sizes

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Why is stub sorting important?

Stub articles are generally short and/or below the high Wikipedia standard. If they are not sorted, then it means they are less likely to be edited to higher quality as nobody necessarily knows the page is in need of attention. Even if a page is sorted into a category indicating it is in need of attention, such as the articles needing a cleanup, it is still not as good as putting it in a stub category. This is because stub categories attract experts in specific areas (chemists can see chemistry stubs for example), whereas generic cleanup/deadend categories do not.

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Parentage

One parent of this WikiProject is Wikipedia:Maintenance.
Another parent of this WikiProject is Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates.
The third parent of this WikiProject is Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories.

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Structure

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types for more information on existing stub types.

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/List of stubs for a compact list of all stub types.

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Guidelines and criteria

To see the current guidelines and other information on stub sorting and stubs in general, see: Wikipedia:Stub.

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New stubs

To propose new stub categories/templates, see /Proposals.
List newly found stub categories/templates at /Discoveries.

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Important article links

Wikipedia:Stub (WP:STUB) - official definition and instruction on stubs.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types (WP:WSS/ST) - lists all stub categories (with statistics).
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals (WP:WSS/P) - for proposals on new stub types and other stub-related discussion.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Discoveries (WP:WSS/D) - for newly-discovered stub types.
Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion (WP:SFD) - for deletion of stub templates and categories.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Criteria/Archive - for archives of old proposals and discussions
Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs
Wikipedia:Shortpages
Stubsensor a script which detects long articles with the stub tag attached to them and is used to organize periodic cleanup projects
Category:Stub categories the main list of stub categories and of articles contained within them
Category:Stubs deprecated, but still receives a few articles periodically

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Participants

The full list became too long for this page. It has been moved to Category:WikiProject Stub sorting participants. Current number of participants is at least 340.

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Stub sorting methods

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General rules

To put an article into a stub category, if it is a chemistry stub for example, change the existing stub tag (if it exists) from {{stub}} to {{chem-stub}}.
Never subst stub templates.
When sorted leave an edit summary like this: Stub-sorting. [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting|You can help!]]
It is common practice to put the tag at the very bottom of the article, after all other templates and often after the categories.
You may wish to inform the creator of the stub that the use of {{stub}} is no longer recommended by putting {{subst:stubsort}} on their talk page.
No stub article should sit in only a stub category as this association is meant to be temporary. If no other category is listed, please add the standard article category that is the parent of the stub category.
Please remember to use the list of stub categories to make sure you are putting stubs in the correct category.
If the article is no longer a stub, remove the stub template. Refer to Wikipedia:Stub for more information on this matter.

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Things to do

The biggest stub subcategory as of 11 November 2005 is Category:Film stubs ({{film-stub}}). See the project's To Do list for those categories which are very large and those categories for which new sub categories have recently been added and thus need to be resorted.
Basic {{stub}}s have been cleared out, but the Category:Stubs still needs watching so unsorted stubs don't pile up again.
All other stub categories need watching as well, to sort out mislabeled stubs and subsort them further, if applicable.
Stubs without any stub tags can be found on Special:Shortpages, Special:Newpages or Special:Randompage.
If a large (> 800 stubs) stub subcategory interests you and there aren't yet any subcategories in it, propose some subcategories at WP:WSS/P.
If you find new stub templates, list them at WP:WSS/D for discussion.
A longer list of oversized stub categories to be split, in order of size, is here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/To do. This might also be used as a holding area for proposals not yet created, and for sub-categories in need of being sorted-down into. Alai 17:30, 29 October 2005 (UTC)