Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/Early/cleanup/stubsensor/20060810

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 the fourth stub cleanup project by Triddle. 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 that it does not belong on. 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.

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 unstubifing, 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.

Where to help

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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100% completed as of January 19, 2007

Volunteers

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

• Thanks for helping everyone. I look forward to reading any ideas or comments you have. Triddle 00:20, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
• SynergeticMaggot (talk · contribs · count)
• Revragnarok (talk · contribs · count) - getting sick of Arrondissement of... links. See my stub talk page for AWB setting...
• Draicone (talk · contribs · count) - I have a 3300 link AWB disambig run to go, but then I'd be happy to help
• Danthemankhan 17:33, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
• Depressedrobot - Yea sure i'll help
• Canadianshoper 22:09, 22 August 2006 (UTC) - Back
• Ill get to work on Section '19'. It's my precioussssss... =) L Trezise 20:26, 26 August 2006 (UTC) EDIT: Complete!!! L Trezise 22:58, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
• Apparent Logic Count me in. Apparent Logic 15:39, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Did a section tonight . . . Sehr Gut 04:58, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
• Ksbrown 17:53, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
• Did a section, and think I will be back. This was fun! VikÞor | Talk 05:07, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
• Did one secton tonight.It feels great to help Wikipedia.As soon as i have time im gonna come back and do some more sections.Thanks Success666 19:39, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
• There's just soo many. I'll be back. —Ron2 01:03, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
• I'll do as much as I can to clean this up. Sr13 01:58, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
• I claim Section '10'. --FivePointCalvinist (My Friends Call me 'Cal') 23:13, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
• Currently doing a section, I'll be doing more! Musicaljelly 06:32, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
• surf and work at the same time, this is fun Jeepday 03:20, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
• This is a great way to help out. You get to do something useful, possibly help the articles in other ways, and visit articles you wouldn't really. And there's a great sense of accomplishment. Get the word out about this project! shoy 04:51, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
• Iotha 04:48, 16 December 2006 (UTC) - I'll do what I can.
• Rubikfreak - I've done 3 sections.
• Gnj^{Talk|Contribs} 14:42, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
• Did a couple of sections and expecting to do even more --Snowolf 02:02, 14 January 2007 (UTC)