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{{Useful Notes}}
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]].
Quoting [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Stub|Wikipedia]]: "A '''stub''' is an article that, although providing some useful information, lacks the breadth of coverage expected".
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== What Stub Pages Are Not ==
Stub pages are not "incomplete" pages – at least, not in any fundamentally different way from how ''all'' wiki pages are "incomplete". No page on the wiki is ever truly complete; circumstances change, things become known or forgotten, new tropes and works are written, and other things happen that
It appears that we actually have to say this... Stub pages are ''not'' [[:Category:Pages for speedy deletion|pages that have been nominated for deletion]]. The stub templates exist to direct tropers to pages that need more work, not warn of their impending doom. This leads to an obvious corollary: that work pages do not ever get deleted unless they are bogus, plagiarized, or otherwise violate wiki rules.
== What Are Not Stub Pages ==
Disambiguation pages (that help readers find the correct page in a group of similarly-named pages) are never considered to be stub pages. Disambiguation pages are indexes, not articles.
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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.
A stub page is identified by the presence of one (or in some rare cases, more) of the following notices:
[[File:Stubs.png]]
These are entered into the page source using the templates {{tl|workstub}}, {{tl|tropestub}}, {{tl|creatorstub}}, and {{tl|stub}}, respectively. Please use {{tl|stub}} on Useful Notes stub pages.
Adding {{tl|tropestub}} to a page also lists the page in the Trope Workshop - so please use that tag ''only'' on trope pages!
== Finding and Fixing Stubs ==
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're here because you want to find a page to improve, great! [[:Category:Stubs|Here's the list]]; pick one (or more) and take the plunge!
Just keep in mind that [[All The Tropes:Copyrights#Can I just copy over stuff from TV Tropes?|we aren't legally allowed to use content that was added to TV Tropes after mid-2012]], please.
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 War]]s over stub status, though.
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If you wish to see previous versions of this policy, or you want to know when this policy was last updated and what was changed, please review the page history by selecting "History" from the menu at the top of this page.
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[[Category:Wiki Policy]]
[[Category:Stubs]]
[[Category:Administrivia]]
[[Category:Style Guide]]
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