Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub improvement

Welcome to the Stub Improvement WikiProject! Our goal here is to get stubs built up into useful, well-sourced articles. Of all Wikipedia articles, 33.770% are currently stubs, approximately 2,300,000 articles.

A stub is any article that has only basic information while omitting important aspects of the topic. There is no exact size that defines a stub, but most articles under 250–300 words will be considered stubs. Articles with more than 500 words are almost never stubs. Stubs are often tagged with a stub template at the bottom of the article; when the article is expanded, this template should be removed. Articles may also be classified as stubs on talk page banners, and these banners should be updated as well.

Participating is simple:

1. Pick a stub.
2. Find one or more reliable sources about that topic.
3. Summarize those sources in the article.
4. Once it's no longer a stub, list it as a success at The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge.

• Wikipedia:Database reports/Long stubs, a weekly bot generated report of long articles with stub tag.
  • If stub can be removed, do so:
    • Edit Summary: rm stub; Wikipedia:Database reports/Long stubs; Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub improvement; [[WP:STIM|you can help!]]
  • Run Rater article assessment tool and update WikiProject Class/Importance as needed. Note: the ORES prediction percent is an estimate and may not always be accurate, so use your best judgement for WikiProject Class, Importance. Stub-class

For Stub-class articles, here is a PetScan example to create a smaller group of articles from a large category.

Depth: 1
Categories: Stub-Class football in France articles  (Note: over 8,000 articles)

Page properties:

Namespaces - add Talk
Size - Smaller or equal - 100 ( Results = 247 )
Redirects - No, No, No

Output: HTML or Plain text
Sort: by title

Since the Stub class is set on the article's Talk page, review each article for a missing stub tag (to add) if needed; or if the article is improved, remove the stub tag and upgrade to class "Start" or higher.