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This page in a nutshell: Stubs are short. Substubs are really, really short. |
If stubs are the ugly ducklings of Wikipedia, then substubs are the unhatched eggs. They are short information fragments that are undesirable to stay as they are for an extended period of time, since they provide little to no context to their contents. Dealing with them is a part of the everyday maintenance on Wikipedia.
In the past, these substubs were marked with the {{substub}} template. Since this collided with the general methods of stub sorting and the number of articles marked as substubs (justified as well as erroneous) got more and more out of hand, the use of that template was deprecated, and in the end the template and associated category were deleted in May 2005 (see Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/Deleted/May 2005#Template:Substub and Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 May 10#Category:Substubs). For the present methods of dealing with substubs, see one of the options at #How to fix a substub.
Before its deletion, the template message was:
Substubs are simply a type of stub.
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An aeroplane (or airplane) is a machine that flies through the air. It was created by the Wright brothers in 1903. It is able to fly because the wing shape creates greater air pressure under the wing than above it. Today, the Boeing 747 line of airplanes has revolutionized commercial air travel and mass transit, making inter-continental flights not only possible but commonplace. |
Aeroplanes (or Airplanes) are flying machines with wings. |
A computer in the modern sense of the word is a machine that computes information electronically. They nowadays use transistors and microchips to process data. They normally use the binary number system, which is composed of ones and zeros. |
A computer processes information with a mouse. It is in binary. |
Power Rangers: SPD is a new Power Rangers season coming in 2005. | |
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle | Anthony J. Drexel Biddle ( 1876 - 1948) was the man the play and film The Happiest Millionaire was based upon. |
Well one day Rockefeller decided Colorado was awesome so He made an oil refinery there. | |
Dryers' first invented the ice cream cone using less dense cream and more milk by products producing a low calorie LITE-CONE. |
There are a number of things that can be done to a substub to either improve it, move it somewhere more useful, or delete it entirely:
This page has been closed down by
community consensus, and is retained only for
historical reference. If you wish to restart discussion on the status of this page, seek community input at a forum such as the village pump. |
This page in a nutshell: Stubs are short. Substubs are really, really short. |
If stubs are the ugly ducklings of Wikipedia, then substubs are the unhatched eggs. They are short information fragments that are undesirable to stay as they are for an extended period of time, since they provide little to no context to their contents. Dealing with them is a part of the everyday maintenance on Wikipedia.
In the past, these substubs were marked with the {{substub}} template. Since this collided with the general methods of stub sorting and the number of articles marked as substubs (justified as well as erroneous) got more and more out of hand, the use of that template was deprecated, and in the end the template and associated category were deleted in May 2005 (see Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/Deleted/May 2005#Template:Substub and Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 May 10#Category:Substubs). For the present methods of dealing with substubs, see one of the options at #How to fix a substub.
Before its deletion, the template message was:
Substubs are simply a type of stub.
Stub | Substub |
---|---|
An aeroplane (or airplane) is a machine that flies through the air. It was created by the Wright brothers in 1903. It is able to fly because the wing shape creates greater air pressure under the wing than above it. Today, the Boeing 747 line of airplanes has revolutionized commercial air travel and mass transit, making inter-continental flights not only possible but commonplace. |
Aeroplanes (or Airplanes) are flying machines with wings. |
A computer in the modern sense of the word is a machine that computes information electronically. They nowadays use transistors and microchips to process data. They normally use the binary number system, which is composed of ones and zeros. |
A computer processes information with a mouse. It is in binary. |
Power Rangers: SPD is a new Power Rangers season coming in 2005. | |
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle | Anthony J. Drexel Biddle ( 1876 - 1948) was the man the play and film The Happiest Millionaire was based upon. |
Well one day Rockefeller decided Colorado was awesome so He made an oil refinery there. | |
Dryers' first invented the ice cream cone using less dense cream and more milk by products producing a low calorie LITE-CONE. |
There are a number of things that can be done to a substub to either improve it, move it somewhere more useful, or delete it entirely: