Wikipedia:Stub

This page documents an English Wikipedia editing guideline. Editors should generally follow it, though exceptions may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on this guideline's talk page.

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This page in a nutshell: An article too short and incomplete to provide more than rudimentary information about a subject should be marked as a stub by adding an appropriate stub template to the end of the article. Anyone can edit a stub article, or remove a stub template from an article which is no longer a stub.

A stub is an article deemed too short and incomplete to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject. As of 2025, almost half of Wikipedia's articles could be considered stubs.

This page provides a general guide for dealing with stubs: the first section, Basic information, contains information that is recommended for most users; and the second section, Creating stub types, contains more specialized material.

Existing stub categories can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types, as maintained by the WikiProject Stub improvement collaborative.