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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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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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