Forum:Stubs and Incomplete

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Does a smaller (3-5 sentences) article require an "incomplete" tag if there is no other information that can be added to the article?

Artemaz (talk) 16:24, October 28, 2015 (UTC)

If there is no further info, it gets just a stub, but if it is two sentences on Drizzt Do'Urden, it would get an incomplete... my two cents :)

- Darkwynters (talk) 23:24, October 28, 2015 (UTC)

If there is no more information that can be added, then it is by definitions a complete article, and does not require a stub or incomplete tag. For example, Glorming: I couldn't find any more to say any more about this obscure orc. 999 DR is a complete article, as all we know is the year name.

An {{incomplete}} article is one that is reasonably whole and can stand alone, but is lacking a fair degree of information from the cited sources. For example, Koja: complete from the sources that were within my project and has a little more from others to illustrate his important and give context, but is patently lacking in novel appearances and the rest of the adventure events.

A {{stub}} is the very bares-bones beginning of an article, and lacking in crucial information and context: where a person lived, when they lived (1300s, 1400s, or −1000 DR?), or what they did that was important or why you're writing an article about them. For example, Eredhor: I don't know when or where this person lived or why I'm being told about it.

That's as I understand stubs and incompletes (though I created the latter). Picking stub or incomplete can be a matter of judgement. Wikipdedia has some firmer guidelines.

— BadCatMan (talk) 12:19, October 29, 2015 (UTC)

Gotcha. I've noticed that most of the articles tagged as stubs should actually be incomplete then.

Artemaz (talk) 12:53, October 29, 2015 (UTC)