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

[magician113]

Hey there, brand newbie to fanlore--aware of its existence but not much beyond that. This shout-out looks like fun. I've looked at the Examples Wanted list and see a couple I'd like to work on, but no obvious info on how to do it. Do I have to have an account? Is there a template?

Also, one of the entries is incorrect, specifically which episodes the character appeared in, as well as the info on him could use beefing up. Is it acceptable to correct errors or is that a faux pas?

If you'd rather answer through email, I'm merlin dot 113 at hotmail dot com

Thanks.

[aethel]

Hi, there!

You need an account to edit Fanlore. Once you login, go to the page you want to edit, and you should see an EDIT link in the upper right hand corner. There's an editing tutorial here.

Be aware that for spam reasons, new users are prevented from creating new pages for the first 4 hours after they sign up.

Please correct anything you see that is incorrect! As for beefing up character info, we go back and forth a lot on how much is too much canon info. The focus of the site is on fan activity, rather than canon details, but some canon details end up inspiring a lot of fan activity and need to be explained. If in doubt, you can post a question on the talk page accompanying the article in question. (Click on the DISCUSSION link.)

[magician113]

Thanks for the quick response. You are awesome.