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.
A stub page will be identified by the presence of one (or in some rare cases, more) of the following notices:
| This Work page is a stub. You can help Tropedia by expanding it. |
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This Trope page is a stub. You can help Tropedia by expanding it. |
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This Creator page is a stub. You can help Tropedia by expanding it. |
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This page is a stub. You can help Tropedia by expanding it. |
(These are entered into the page source using the templates {{workstub}}, {{tropestub}}, {{creatorstub}}, and {{stub}}, respectively. Please use {{stub}} on Useful Notes stub 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.