Encyclopedia:Stub

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A stub on in the Hidden Frontier Encyclopedia is a very short article, generally of one paragraph or less. Most stub articles fail to cover all but the extreme basics of a subject. Stubs are useful as placeholders, for those contributors who are in the process of researching a topic or are writing a longer article for inclusion in the wiki. However, stubs are also sometimes left in the database, and thus are of very little use to those who read them.

(Note that stubs should not be confused with very brief articles; sometimes, there's only a little bit of information available on a subject and it only warrants two or three sentences.)

The MediaWiki software can automatically mark short articles for you. In your preferences, set the Threshold for stub display to a number higher than zero. (A recommended number is 200 bytes.)

More information on how you can help fix stubs is available here.

Stub alert!

If you create a stub, add one, or more as appropriate, of these codes at the bottom of your page to encourage other users to destubify the article. A full list is available at this list of stub templates.

{{stub}}

Which will appear as:

{{stub-production}}

Which will appear as:

{{ODYstub}}

Which will appear as: