Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub

Wikipedia:Index>Find or fix a stub

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A stub on Wikipedia is a very short article, generally of one paragraph or less. Most people hate stubs, even though they are a probably a necessary evil: many excellent Wikipedia articles started out as stubs.

The software can automatically mark short entries if you set the Threshold for stub display higher than 0. This makes it easy to find or fix a stub. See Special:Preferences. If you can't think of anything better to do, you can:

• search for stub articles and then list them here,
• better yet – fix one by adding more detail, or
• go through this list and remove links to articles that are no longer very short.

See also:

• Wikipedia:The perfect stub article.
• Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs
• Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention
• Wikipedia:Utilities for other helpful pages

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Feel free to add any you find or create, or delete the ones that have been fixed.

This list generally follows the following format:

Letter

• Persons (by family name), groups of persons, and companies

• Places and times

• Things, ideas, and not-yet-categorized stubs

A

• Active site -- Ahulane -- Sture Allén -- Annar -- Andhaka -- Atl -- Awha -- absentee landlord (original meaning) -- AICPA

• Athens, Georgia -- Alamo

• Accelerator (computing) -- Acetoacetic acid -- Achondroplasia -- Air conditioning -- Alitalia -- allegro -- American Quarter Horse -- andante -- Arab -- Aramaic language -- Arecaceae -- analytic geometry -- anteater -- arctic fox -- animal shell -- Adposition -- Alveoli

B

• Steve Ballmer -- Friedrich Bessel -- Ludwig von Bertalanffy -- Hakim Bey -- Nicolas Bourbaki -- Terry Bradshaw -- Blue Oyster Cult

• Bo Hai -- Boxing Day -- Brasilia -- Bruges

• Base pair -- Baud rate -- beauty -- Bongo -- Bridge piercing -- Business continuity planning -- links from Timeline of Buddhism

C

• Cabaguil -- Cacoch -- Camazotz -- Camel (band) -- John Carroll -- Anders Celsius -- Hayden Christiansen -- Chrysler -- Chris Claremont -- Johnny Clegg (musician) -- listing of noted Confucianists

• Cairo -- Calleva Atrebatum -- John Carroll University -- Crete -- Cumberland Games and Diversions

• Confinement -- Communications channel -- Cement -- Chapter 11 -- Chipmunk -- The Club -- Corycian Cave -- Counterfeiting -- Cracker (TV series) -- crow

D

• William Davenant -- Annie Dillard -- Disciples of Christ -- Dou Xian -- Duellona -- Dutch Reformed Church -- Keno Don Rosa

• demethylation -- Denazification -- diffeomorphism -- Dispatch -- disposable income -- Document Editor -- Drama -- Durand line -- Displaced person -- Dead Man (movie) -- Decarboxylation -- Decoration

E

• End-user

• Elizabethan era

• East Frisian Low Saxon -- East Slavic languages -- Elvish language -- Endocytosis -- Epigram -- Error correction

F

• Brad Fitzpatrick -- Dario Fo -- Stephen Foster -- First Fandom -- FASB

• Faroese language -- Fosters Lager -- fsck -- fungible -- Freedom Press

G

• Amy Grant -- Gaelic League -- Good ol' boy network -- girlfriend -- gnome -- GASB

• Gaeltacht -- Groton, Connecticut -- Gujarat

• genotype -- geometric distribution -- gorilla -- Greek architecture -- Growing Pains

H

• Henry the Young King -- Harivanshrai Bachchan -- John Howard (actor) -- hetman -- hole (band) -- Haji Bashar

• hypothetical planet

• herbivore -- Hereditary -- History of Austria -- History of US immigration -- hotel -- hnefatafl -- Hydrocephalus

I

• International Resources Group -- Isten -- Inter-Services Intelligence

• IIT Madras -- IIT Bombay -- IIT Kanpur -- Iron Age

• Icelandic króna -- The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother -- Informal economy -- Information technology (particularly pathetic stubs) -- Infusion -- Intuition -- Internet Information Server -- Interzone magazine

J

• Joachim Nestor Hohenzollern -- Donald Johanson -- Duane Johnson

• Jiankang

• Jazz-rock fusion

K

• Willem Hendrik Keesom -- K'in -- Leleti Khumalo -- Tracy Kidder

• Karnataka -- Khamis Mushait

• kimchi -- King Rat -- kunstlerroman

L

• Celia Larkin -- Norman Lear -- League for Programming Freedom -- Albert Lebrun -- James Lind -- Dénis Lindbohm -- Loretta Lynn

• Lisbon

• Labor (economics) -- Lawsuit -- lost work -- Love Hina -- Ludic -- Lupus Erythematosus -- Lyrics -- Lex -- Lexx

M

• Chris Marker-- Matsushita -- Daniel McFadden -- Melissa -- Metztli -- Miami tribe -- Talia Monet

• Mora, Sweden -- Mount McKinley -- Mount Saint Helens

• Mario Kart Super Circuit -- Maze generation algorithm -- MeatballWiki -- medieval music -- Metal detector -- Metabolism -- Metric time -- Millinery -- Millipede (game) -- monkey -- Mora (linguistics) -- more (UNIX command) -- mores (sociology) -- Movie camera -- Multi-user -- Mass media

N

• Napalm Death -- Edwin Newmann
• Nacon -- National Zoo -- Nice
• name -- Nell -- Newsprint -- Nilo-Saharan languages -- Nobility -- Nothing -- Nucleoside -- NURBS

O

• Johnny O'Keefe -- Ostrogoth -- Ottoman Empire

• operand -- Bill Ouchi -- Outcome-based Education -- Oil painting

P

• Pitchshifter (band) -- Roy J. Plunkett -- Ann Paxton

• Pacemaker -- Parchment -- Pathogen -- petuntse -- Pet Shop Boys -- Phenotype -- Pholidota -- pangolin -- Phocidae (earless seals) -- Physical anthropology -- Piezoelectricity -- Poetry (a lot of links to stub articles here) -- Polish war myths -- Polytechnic -- Pomacanthidae -- Potlatch -- pottery -- Printing -- Profit -- Psychological pain -- psychotherapy

Q

• Queenstown, New Zealand

• quick-and-dirty

R

• Rabbi Akiva -- Yitzhak Rabin -- Jacob Radcliff -- Rapira programming language -- Ravi -- David Ricardo -- Emperor Rokujo of Japan -- Nellie Tayloe Ross -- Ahmed Ressam

• Radiotherapy -- RC5 encryption algorithm -- Rhyme -- Rhythm -- rogue-o-matic -- Continental Rationalism -- Retailer -- Romano Prodi

S

• Sai Baba -- Saint Michael -- Saint Stephen -- Sampler -- Sandhi -- Michael Schumacher -- Scots Gaelic language -- Sesame seed -- Sestina -- William H. Seward -- Léopold Senghor -- Sex worker -- Alan Sillitoe -- Socionics -- Sors -- Stephen Bourne -- Sugoroku -- Sun Quan -- Loretta Swit

• Saigon -- Serengeti National Park -- South African Republic

• scarecrow -- scatology -- seaweed -- Seismology -- Sky -- Social psychology -- somatic cell -- Spectralism -- Storm -- Sum of Logic -- Symbian OS

T

• Talocan -- Tango -- The City -- The Offspring -- Tohil -- Tomboy -- Transportation on the Glorioso Islands --Transportes Aereos Portugueses -- Jun Tsuji -- Barbara W. Tuchman -- Transmeta -- Transactivation--

• Teheran, Iran -- Thane

• Teacher -- testa -- Testosterone -- Tetum -- Thermometer -- Time management -- Times New Roman -- Tisane -- Tolerance -- Tourist attraction -- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus -- Transjordan -- trial by jury -- Tristan da Cunha -- Franjo Tudjman

U

• University of Massachusetts Boston -- urban outdoorsman -- Ute

• Ulverston

• UTFSM -- UNO

V

• VIA

• Vedea -- Visby

• Velotaxi - Venn diagram -- vodka

W

• Ken Wilber

• Workington -- Webzine

• Warhol worm -- Wedding -- Wholesaler -- Wildland

Y

• yuanfen

Z

• Zarzuela -- zealot -- Renée Zellweger

• Zacarias Moussaoui