Stubs

A stub is a page which, in the opinion of at least one editor, Needs a Better Description, Needs More Examples, Needs More Love or just needs more something before it can be considered Ready For Primetime. We have a longer discussion about stub pages at All The Tropes:Stub Pages; this page is about the mechanics of marking pages as stubs.

A stub page will be identified by the presence of one (or in some rare cases, more) of the following notices:

(These are entered into the page source using the templates workstub, tropestub, creatorstub, and stub, respectively. Please use stub on Useful Notes stub pages.)

Adding tropestub to a page also lists the page in the Trope Workshop - so please use that tag only on trope pages!

A stub notice is both a cry for help and an invitation to provide it -- if you see a page for a topic you know something about with a stub notice on it, by all means please share what you know.

If you find a page that seems far too brief or otherwise insufficient to its topic, feel free to add the appropriate stub notice to it if you cannot for some reason expand the page yourself.

If you find a page which seems more than adequate in your opinion but still has a stub notice on it, feel free to remove it. If other editors disagree with you, it'll go back in. That's fine -- it's part of the Wiki Magic. We don't want to see Edit Wars over stub status, though.

You can find a list of all pages currently tagged as stubs here. If you want to expand any of those pages, great! Just keep in mind that we aren't legally allowed to use content that was added to TV Tropes after mid-2012, please.