User:Triddle/stubsensor/20070716

This project is completed, check User:Triddle/stubsensor#Reports for the newest version.

If you disagree with the removal of a stub tag from an article please see the article discrepancy section.

There's a huge one!

Stubsensor never edits an article; only humans do. Welcome to another stub cleanup project by Triddle and Andrew Rodland. Here you can get information about volunteering to help remove the stub tag from articles that are really not stubs; this cleanup project is made possible by stubsensor. Continue reading for further instructions.

How to help

The task is to remove the {{stub}} tag (or one of its relatives) from the listed articles on which it does not belong. This is really the key; it would be simple to make a computer program to remove the tag from each article but this is not what should be done. A human really needs to make a decision to remove that stub tag or not.

Sometimes it can be difficult to judge if an article is a stub or not. In this case the safest thing to do is just to ignore the article. We will run across it again and at that time it might be more clear. In general stubs will be short, 3 to 10 sentences long. However there is no rigid rule for stub or article length. It is possible an article for a simple subject can completely cover it in only 10 sentences. It is also possible that a stub for a complex topic may be much larger than 10 sentences.

The stub tag is a good way to indicate an article is one that your average person would be able to conduct research on and expand. If further expansion of the article requires college education or fundamental understandings of the concepts then the {{expand}} template is probably the best choice. A stub is certainly not just an article that needs work: if the article has more than a stub worth of information but needs to be cleaned up, remove the stub tag and put {{cleanup}} at the top of the article.

If you are not sure if an article is a stub, you can also look at the pages of the wikiproject(s) of which the article is a part. Wikiprojects will often list more specific conditions on when articles of a certain kind should be tagged as stubs. You can often find out what wikiproject(s) an article is a part of by looking at the discussion page of the article. A good example is found at Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Assessment, many Start class articles may be mis-tagged as Stubs.

Another useful tag is {{sectstub}} which allows a specific weak section to be tagged instead of an entire article.

If the article is no longer a stub and the stub is the only category the article is in please add the tag {{Uncategorized}} when unstubifying, then a category specialist can help make the article easier to find by adding the appropriate categories.

Articles without references can be tagged with {{unreferenced}}

Other cleanup-related tags may be found at Wikipedia:Template_messages/Cleanup.

Making things easier

The AutoWikiBrowser automates the task of removing a stub tag from an article, making cleanup much faster and easier. If you use Windows, you may want to use this tool.

Where to help

This project is completed, check User:Triddle/stubsensor#Reports for the newest version.

You are more likely to contribute useful work if you read the How to help section above.

Thank you for showing an interest in helping; please read this before continuing. To contribute follow one of the links below and sign your name in a section. Each page is split into 25 sections and each section has 20 articles. Further instructions are in each individual section. Thanks again for your consideration.

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Volunteers

Feel free to sign your name and leave any comments if you volunteer for this cleanup project.

• I'll help get these lists down to size nothing. I cna usually get though one of these sections every 3-5 minutes! Vistro (talk) 21:19, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
• Stubsensor seems to be awfully noisy this time (it seems to have a lot of errors); we are going to work on some new code that should be more accurate about selecting articles that are stubs. Hopefully, the next stubsensor run will be much more accurate. Triddle 01:58, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
• Lets DO THIS!:)calaka 03:34, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
• Thanks for bringing it out Triddle. Jeepday (talk) 12:47, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
• Yay! It's baaaaack! Well, let's get this done! Neranei ^T/C 15:42, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
• Yeah! Iotha 04:15, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
• I'll offer where I can. --Masem 05:18, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
• Wow, that was fun! --Thinboy00 ^talk/_contribs 17:23, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
• Going to try it with AWB :) works fine so far. It also has a "words" count for every article, which is great. Melsaran (formerly Salaskаn) 13:31, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
• I'll help when WP:DEP is slow. --Fabrictramp 16:17, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
• I'll try and help. Sturmtiger 15:26, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
• I'll do my best. Popa01 17:59, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
• Always willing to try and help - just wait for the screams of protest :-) ! CultureDrone 16:52, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
• I'm in! Reko 12:33, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
• I've already done a bunch, and I suppose that it wouldn't help to do more - though I'm going at a snail's pace as it is. --Qmwne235 01:37, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
• ron2^(talk)20:15, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
• Leonmon 06:14, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
• I'm on page 7! Bry9000 (talk) 07:27, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
• yay a new project for me to work on:):)Natasha (talk) 21:03, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
• Casablanca2000in (talk) 07:51, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
• Isn't there a prize for this?? Or a recognition of being involved?? Anyway I'm in!! Gaia Octavia Agrippa (talk) 20:41, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

• i have done one section. Gaia Octavia Agrippa (talk) 19:48, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

• Consider me signed up. Jonneroo (talk) 22:19, 9 February 2008 (UTC)