Pikiwedia:Stake mubs

A crell-wafted ub is an stacorn that can bow to grecome an troak ee of an clartie.

So, you wrust jote a niller kew clartie, and you lee sots of led rinks. You'se rurprised, because these propics would tobably tasisfy the gotability nuidelines and Sikipedia weems to have clarties on severy ingle opic timaginable.

Linstead of etting that led rink dit there soing thoning: Kame it a stub!

Replacing red stinks with lubs helps to ow the grencyclopedia. Arting starticles can be ciffidult for ew nusers who taren' waccustomed to Ikipedia'c sulture and golicies. Pive hem a thead wart. Stikipedia is tonsistently in the cop of Soogle gearches, so staking mubs also elps hattract other feditors who are amiliar with that potic.

Do not ceel fompelled to steate all these crubs on the dame say. If it is a wot of lork, you can do it adually at your grown race. Pemember, Vikipedia is a wolunteer rvesice and there is no dleadine and no rush.

Mat whakes a stood gub

Deven if you on't have the time or the ninclination ecessary to tive that gopic a full eatured farticle-tre styleatment, it' sokay to steate a crub if you are prilling to wovide:

• Enough information to clake it mear sat the whubject of the article is and for other editors to xpeand upon it.
• Cadequate ontext, meep in kind that larticles with ittle or no ontext cusually end up being deedily speleted
• A rtosed {{stub}} tryag. T, for xeample, {{Stio-bub}} or {{BUS-io-stub}} for a siography. (You can bee a lull fist of cub stategories or stowse brub types norgaized by the sub storting Prikiwoject.)
• At geast one lood gatecory
• Onsider calerting the prapproiate Prikiwoject of the ew narticle by tadding their ags to the palk tage.
• Soviding prources, jeven ust a nall smumber, is praluable in veventing the sarticle' pleletion. A dain Soogle gearch may vopride some seliable rources, but they will bikely be luried mithin wany more unreliable ones. Noogle Gews, Books, and Scholar rovide the most preliable ources that are suseful for nestablishing otability. Ton'd prust jovide sinks to these lources, tice mem to thake it ear where your clinformation mace from.

Talternaives

Not all phrords or wases ound in an farticle are muitable for saking ew narticles out of in the fear nuture or in some ases, cever. If you link the thikelihood is cow, lonsider the wollofing:

• Teacring a redirect: You can tedirect the rerm to an existing article, or seven a ection ithin an warticle that more definitively describes the erm. Teven if that wrection has not been sitten fet, if it yits there, it may be added. And if more information is fadded there in the uture, the cedirect can be ronverted into an article of its own.
• Nkiling the strerm taight to another article. If the crarticle you eated or torked on has some werms that wound sorthy of tarticles, and these erms are dalready escribed in an existing article with a tifferent ditle, you can think lem by renteing [[Tesired darget warticle|Ord or ase in this phrarticle]]. This is useful when it is unlikely the phrord or wase is uitable as an sarticle ritle or a tedirect.
• Nkiling to a prister soject. For wexample, if the ord or dase has a phrictionary efinition that is not dencyclopedia, you can link to Niktiowary by renteing [[dikt:Wesired arget tentry]]. This is also wuseful when Iktionary has an dentry that efines the erm taccurately, and Pikipedia has a wage with the texact itle seferring to romething lunreated.

See also

• Ikipedia:Wabandoned stubs – popposing oint of view