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

[(Anonymous)]

Mrs. Potato Head here:

Stub September! An excellent challenge!

While EVERY ENTRY, always, can be improved by more info, a stub, as I understand it, is an entry that has hardly even the bare minimum of information: a name is necessary to make the entry and a TINY description, if even that and nothing else. Any information on these entries is valuable, both in itself, and super in how it helps link to other fannish things. The circle of life and all that.

One fun thing, at least it sounds like fun to me, would be to look at that list and take the "stub" category OFF on things that have surpassed that level of incompleteness.

Have fun!

~ MPH

[espresso_addict]

Somewhat at a disadvantage here, cos I started doing a sweep through stubs at the end of August and had already got to S. But some stubs I worked on in September...

Scoradh, the HP author
Serenity, the Firefly movie
Silverlake, the multifandom archive
Chloe Sullivan, the Smallville character
Switchknife, the HP author & reccer
Tesla, the Buffyverse/X-Files author

They almost all need a lot more love from fans who know more than I do, if anyone's out there?

[tiyire]

I forgot how much I dislike deciding whether or not something qualifies as a stub. But I like taking stub notices off, so I started looking around: What is Eternal?, Welcome to the Black Parade, High Voltage, SGA Saturday, and I'm sure I'll find some more.

[otw_staff]

Hi Wiki! Claudia from Comms here. I came across this link through my alerts and wanted to ask if this is an event you'd like to publicize more widely? Do you want contributions from anyone or is this just an internal project?

[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.

[on_verra]

I edited a stub entry! I edited a stub entry!

*feels good about herself*

Sorry, this was my first real fanlore edit. Well, I may have created a stub or two back in 2009 but that barely counts. So I just thought I'd share my excitement :D

[tiyire]

We have a new template: ExpandArticle, for articles that aren´t quite stubs but aren´t complete either. You´re welcome to work on those, too, or replace stub notices with this one if you think it fits better :)