Fanlore Challenge: Stub September

[smarieru]

Stub September is a challenge for Fanlore editors and gardeners to pick a stub and expand on it. A stub is an article on Fanlore that is under-developed and missing important information. Right now, there are nearly 1800 existing pages on Fanlore that are already identified as stubs. You're invited to use the list and the index at the top of the page to find a page where you know something more and edit the page to add your new information. It's as simple as that.

In addition to the identified stubs, there are also pages that are missing specific examples to define or illustrate the page topic. This category, examples wanted, is much shorter and needs more specific information. If you know any examples, please just add them to the page.

In other words, Stub September is a good month to add more information to existing Fanlore articles. Have fun and good luck!

ETA: Feel free to post links to the articles you work on, whether it is updating a stub yourself or reviewing a stub and upgrading it to the examples wanted template. Comment here and let your editing colleagues know what you've been doing. We all want to share the experience when we're improving on Fanlore.

Comments

[espresso_addict]

It is difficult isn't it? There's always the feeling that by leaving the tag on, others might come by and help, but with so many at the moment, it's probably best reserved for the very shortest articles. A bunch I filled in were just the infobox with no text at all...

I recall a discussion elsewhere about creating a tag for articles that aren't stubs, don't need examples, but are definitely missing things -- the more I poke around the stubs, the more I think it could be useful.

[tiyire]

I remember that discussion! I was hoping to continue it once we can make it more public and involve more people. (Hopefully soon, we just want to make sure first that we can handle feedback & moderation.)

[espresso_addict]

Yes, I definitely think it's best to wait until the wider contributor base has a chance to join in. And fingers crossed -- we can really do with somewhere to have cross-wiki discussions.

[aethel]

That reminds me. I started a draft notice for this:

http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:Expand_section