WoWWiki:Policy/Stub

From WoWWiki

WoWWiki:Policies
Policy status and phases
Category policy Copyright policy Deletion policy – Speedy deletion – NDA policy DNP Policy Editing policy External links Naming policy – Personal articles – Player character pages	Neutrality policy Stub policy Three revert rule Vandalism policy Voting policy Writing policy – Fan fiction – Guild pages – Items – Lore
See also: guidelines, administrators

This page is an official policy on WoWWiki. This policy has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that all users should follow. Feel free to propose any changes to this policy, but please make sure that changes you make follow the official process and reflect consensus on the discussion page before you put them into practice. Any big changes need to be Adopted or Decreed to be enforced as policy. See WoWWiki:Policies for an overview of WoWWiki policies. See Category:Policies for a list of proposed and adopted policy articles. Shortcut: WW:STUB

A stub is an article which still needs improvement and/or is not complete.

Contents 1 The policy 2 Marking a page as a stub 3 Dealing with a stub 4 Details on stubs

The policy

"Stubs shall be marked as stubs, using properly categorized stub tags from the list below."

However, please note the following:

• Do not mark empty pages as stubs (or create a page which is a stub but has absolutely no content; e.g., a page of article management templates and empty sections). Stubs are for expanding info currently present, not a method for removing red (broken) links.
• Do not stub pages that cannot feasibly be expanded in the near future. If no more information exists, it's not a stub.

Marking a page as a stub

You can add the appropriate stub template to the top of the article. However, {{Stub/Admin}} is not to be used unless you know what you're doing.

See below for the current list of stubs we use.

Dealing with a stub

Main article: WoWWiki:Find or fix a stub

It's simple: Add information to the article! You can remove the stub template if you think the article or section has been sufficiently filled out.

Details on stubs

Stubs Quicksheet
WoW Gameplay
{{Stub/Ability}} {{Stub/Item}} {{Stub/Location}} {{Stub/Mob}} {{Stub/NPC}} {{Stub/Object}} {{Stub/Quest}} {{Stub/Strategy}} {{Stub/Talent}} {{Stub/Tech}}
WoW Patches
{{Stub/PTR}}
WoW Community
{{Stub/Blizzard}} {{Stub/Guild}} {{Stub/Player}} {{Stub/PC}}
Warcraft Universe
{{Stub/Char}} {{Stub/Lore}}
UI
{{Stub/API}} {{Stub/UI}}
Others
{{Stub/Accuracy}} {{Stub/Category}} {{Stub/Other}}
Administration
{{Stub/Admin}}

Current stubs in use at WoWWiki:     [edit]

WoW Gameplay

{{Stub/Ability}} - Any article about a class ability, spell, or anything that the user triggers with a button. Not to be confused with talents.

{{Stub/Item}} - Any page about an item.

{{Stub/Location}} - Any location in the Warcraft universe - dungeons, instances, cities, zones, continents, etc.

{{Stub/Mob}} - NON-interactive, non-player characters or monsters.

{{Stub/NPC}} - Interactive non-player characters.

{{Stub/Object}} - Any page about an object.

{{Stub/Quest}} - Pages about specific quests.

{{Stub/Strategy}} - A Strategy Stub for mobs, like instance bosses. Needed when there is a lack of strategies on a boss page.

{{Stub/Talent}} - Any article about a class talent. Not to be confused with abilities.

{{Stub/Tech}} - Article stubs related to game mechanics.

WoW Patches

{{Stub/PTR}} - Article stubs related to content currently on the PTR.

WoW Community (policy related - WW:FANFIC)

{{Stub/Blizzard}} - Articles related with Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard games or employees.

{{Stub/Guild}} - Pages describing player guilds, role playing or otherwise.

{{Stub/Player}} - Pages describing non-in-game player info.

{{Stub/PC}} - Pages describing player characters, role playing or otherwise.

Warcraft Universe

{{Stub/Char}} - Pages describing any characters not in the game but in the lore (books or web) or in previous Warcraft games.

{{Stub/Lore}} - Articles dealing with official World of Warcraft lore.

UI

{{Stub/API}} - A World of Warcraft API stub.

{{Stub/UI}} - Other UI-related stubs.

Others

{{Stub/Accuracy}} - This refers to any article in which the accuracy of its contents is questionable and requires a fact check.

{{Stub/Category}} - For categories required more pages to be categorised into it.

{{Stub/Other}} - Anything that doesn't fit in the above categories.

Administration

{{Stub/Admin}} - Please do not use unless you know why you are doing so and are aware of the repercussions of that action.

Please do not use the uncategorized {{Stub}} tag on WoWWiki.