Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub

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A stub on Wikipedia is a very short article, generally of one paragraph or less. Most people hate stubs, even though they are a probably a necessary evil: many excellent Wikipedia articles started out as stubs.

The software can automatically mark short entries if you set the Threshold for stub display higher than 0. This makes it easy to find or fix a stub. See Special:Preferences. If you can't think of anything better to do, you can:

• search for stub articles and then list them here,
• better yet – fix one by adding more detail, or
• go through this list and remove links to articles that are no longer very short.

(A tip: clicking on the "What links here" link will show all stub articles linked to this page, inclusive of ones that have not been included on this page's list.)

See also:

• Wikipedia:The perfect stub article.
• Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs
• Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention
• Wikipedia:Utilities for other helpful pages

If you create a stub, add this text to encourage other users to destubify the article:

'' This article is a [[Wikipedia:The perfect stub article|stub]]. You can help Wikipedia by [[Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub|fixing it]].''

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Feel free to add any you find or create, or delete the ones that have been fixed.

This list generally follows the following format:

Letter

• Persons (by family name), groups of persons, and companies

• Places and times

• Things, ideas, and not-yet-categorized stubs

#

• Person:

• Place:

• Thing:

A

• Person: Ahulane -- Sture Allén -- Annar -- Andhaka -- Aramis -- Athos (fictional character) -- Atl -- Awha -- absentee landlord (original meaning) -- AICPA -- Anishinabe

• Place: Athens, Georgia -- Alamo

• Thing: accelerator (computing) -- acetoacetic acid -- achondroplasia -- active site -- air conditioning -- Alitalia -- allegro -- American Quarter Horse -- Annual -- Aramaic language -- Arecaceae -- analytic geometry -- arctic fox -- animal shell -- adposition -- artificial organ -- Agricultural engineering -- Arab states

B

• Person: Steve Ballmer -- Barney & Friends -- Michael Barrymore -- Ludwig von Bertalanffy -- Friedrich Bessel -- Hakim Bey -- Charles E. Blake -- Blue Oyster Cult -- Terry Bradshaw -- Bernard Bresslaw -- Bert Bolin -- Connie Booth -- Christian Bohr

• Place: Bo Hai -- Bodhi -- Boxing Day -- Brasilia -- Bruges -- Barbican Estate

• Thing: Baud rate -- beauty -- birth defect -- Bongo -- Bridge piercing -- Business continuity planning -- links from Timeline of Buddhism -- Bowen ratio - Babyasystem -- bushmaster

C

• Person: Cabaguil -- Cacoch -- Camel (band) -- Campus Watch -- Bryan Caplan -- Mike Caro -- John Carroll -- Hayden Christensen -- Chrysler -- Chris Claremont -- Johnny Clegg (musician) -- listing of noted Confucianists -- Chris Cornell -- Raul Castro - Colossus (superhero) -- Culture (band) -- Crinacus

• Place: Cairo -- Calleva Atrebatum -- John Carroll University -- The City -- Crete -- Cumberland Games and Diversions -- Crosby Township, Hamilton County, Ohio

• Thing: Cabbage Patch Kids -- calx -- CAO -- catecholamine -- cement -- central nervous system -- Chapter 11 -- chemical composition -- Civet -- The Club --Cobra_(snake) -- communications channel -- Comparative Historical -- confinement -- Copperhead (possible disambig) -- Corycian Cave -- counterfeiting -- Cracker (TV series) -- creation -- cyst -- cytoskeleton

D

• Person: William Davenant -- Buddy DeSylva -- Annie Dillard -- Disciples of Christ -- Dou Xian -- Duellona -- Dutch Reformed Church -- Don Rosa -- Marcus Daly -- Andrew Davies -- The Dictators

• Place: Debrecen -- Dublin, Christ Church Cathedral

• Thing: Dell Inspiron -- demethylation -- Denazification -- diffeomorphism -- Dispatch -- disposable income -- Document Editor -- Drama -- Durand line -- Displaced person -- Dead Man (movie) -- Decarboxylation -- Decoration - Deputy -- Dwarfism -- US Drug Enforcement Administration -- Drunkard's walk -- Distributed memory -- Deinotherium (it's a prehistoric proto-elephant)

E

• Person: End-user

• Place: Elizabethan era

• Thing: Earth: Final Conflict -- East Slavic languages -- Elvish language -- Endocytosis -- Epigram -- Error correction -- Espionage Act -- Executable

F

• Person: Pompeu Fabra -- freedman -- Brad Fitzpatrick -- Stephen Foster -- First Fandom -- FASB -- Bruno Fuligni

• Place: Five Points, Manhattan

• Thing: Faroese language -- Fosters Lager -- fsck -- fungible -- Freedom Press

G

• Person: Gaelic League -- GASB -- girlfriend -- April Glaspie -- gnome -- Good ol' boy network -- Amy Grant

• Place: Gaeltacht -- Groton, Connecticut -- Gujarat

• Thing: Genotype -- geometric distribution -- Girly girl -- gorilla -- Greek architecture -- Green River -- Growing Pains -- Gnat

H

• Person: Henry the Young King -- Harivanshrai Bachchan -- John Howard (actor) -- hetman -- hole (band) -- Haji Bashar -- Johns Hopkins -- Winfield Scott Hancock

• Place: hypothetical planet

• Thing: Hellblazer -- herbivore -- Hereditary -- History of Austria -- History of US immigration -- hotel -- hnefatafl -- Humanism --Hydrocephalus -- hip -- Hydroxylysine -- hype (information technology)

I

• Person: International Resources Group -- Isten -- Inter-Services Intelligence -- International Resources Group -- Ishmael -- Iman

• Place: IIT Madras -- IIT Bombay -- IIT Kanpur -- Iron Age

• Thing: The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother -- Industrialisation --- Informal economy -- Information technology (particularly pathetic stubs) -- Infusion -- Intuition -- Internet Information Server -- Interzone magazine -- Inventory

J

• Person: Joachim Nestor Hohenzollern -- Donald Johanson -- Duane Johnson -- Judgment notwithstanding verdict

• Place: Jiankang

• Thing: Jazz-rock fusion -- Johns Hopkins Hospital

K

• Person: Willem Hendrik Keesom -- K'in -- Leleti Khumalo -- Tracy Kidder

• Place: Karnataka -- Khamis Mushait -- Kajang

• Thing: kimchi -- King Rat -- kunstlerroman -- Knots: (Midshipman's hitch, Timber hitch, Sailor's hitch, Pile hitch, Poldo tackle, Packer's knot, Corned beef knot, Alpine butterfly loop, Alpine butterfly bend)

L

• Person: Celia Larkin -- Norman Lear -- League for Programming Freedom -- Albert Lebrun -- James Lind -- Jack Longland -- Loretta Lynn Lityerses

• Place: Lisbon

• Thing: Labor (economics) -- Lawsuit -- Lewis acid -- lost work -- Ludic -- Luganda -- Lupus Erythematosus -- Lyrics -- Lex -- Lexx -- LUCA

M

• Person: Chris Marker -- John Mauchly -- Matsushita -- Daniel McFadden -- Melissa -- Metztli -- Miami tribe -- Luca Miti -- Talia Monet -- Andy McCoy -- Medica Mondiale -- Thurston Moore

• Place: Mora, Sweden -- Mount McKinley -- Mount Vernon (plantation)

• Thing: Mario Kart Super Circuit -- Mass media -- Maze generation algorithm -- MeatballWiki -- medieval music -- Metal detector -- Metabolism -- Metric time -- Millinery -- Millipede (game) -- Mongoose -- monkey -- Mora (linguistics) -- more (UNIX command) -- mores (sociology) -- Movie camera -- Multi-user -- Muckraking -- Mura languages -- Microsoft Passport --

N

• Person: Nacon -- Napalm Death -- Edwin Newmann -- Nick Nolte -- Oliver North -- New Yorker

• Place: National Zoo -- Nice

• Thing: name -- Nell -- Nilo-Saharan languages -- Nobility -- Nothing -- Nucleoside -- NURBS -- Neural tube

O

• Person: Rockne S. O'Bannon -- Johnny O'Keefe -- Ottoman Empire -- Bill Ouchi

• Place:

• Thing: omnivores -- operand -- Outcome-based Education -- Oil painting -- Oni

P

• Person: Pet Shop Boys -- Laurence J. Peter -- Pitchshifter (band) -- Roy J. Plunkett -- Porthos -- Dilys Powell -- Richard Pryor

• Place:

• Thing: Pacemaker -- pangolin -- panicle -- Parchment -- Pathogen -- petuntse -- Phenotype -- Phocidae (earless seals) -- Pholidota -- Physical anthropology -- pinnate -- Poetry (a lot of links to stub articles here) -- Polish war myths -- Polytechnic -- Pomacanthidae -- Posthuman -- Potlatch -- PowerDVD -- Printing -- Prom -- Profit -- Psychological pain -- psychotherapy -- punishment

Q

• Person: Seabury Quinn

• Place: Queenstown, New Zealand

• Thing: Quick-and-dirty

R

• Person: Rabbi Akiva -- Yitzhak Rabin -- Jacob Radcliff -- Ravi -- David Ricardo -- Emperor Rokujo of Japan -- Nellie Tayloe Ross -- Ahmed Ressam -- Romano Prodi

• Place:

• Thing: RC5 encryption algorithm -- Rhyme -- Rhythm -- rogue-o-matic -- Continental Rationalism -- Retailer -- Rapira programming language -- Reverse osmosis (Biology) -- Rise of the Robots -- Ridolfi Plot -- Recalcitrant seed -- Ruble

S

• Person: Sai Baba -- Saint Michael -- Saint Stephen -- Léopold Senghor -- William H. Seward -- Sex worker -- Alan Sillitoe -- Long John Silver -- Sors -- Stephen Bourne -- Sun Quan -- Loretta Swit -- Devon Sawa -- Sangoma -- Prunella Scales -- Son Goku

• Place: Sabine -- Saigon -- Serengeti National Park -- South African Republic

• Thing: sampler -- Sandhi -- scatology -- Scots Gaelic language -- seaweed -- Secular humanism -- seismology -- sesame seed -- sestina -- Severe Combined Immunodeficiency -- sky -- Sleepless in Seattle -- social psychology -- socionics -- somatic cell -- sore throat -- spectralism -- spine (anatomy) -- storm -- suffering -- sugoroku -- Sum of Logic -- Suture -- Symbian OS

T

• Person: Talocan -- The Offspring -- Tohil -- Tomboy -- Patrick Troughton -- Jun Tsuji -- Barbara W. Tuchman -- Transmeta -- Teacher -- Franjo Tudjman -- Takashi Miike (Japanese filmmaker) -- The transplants

• Place: Teheran, Iran -- Thane -- Tourist attraction -- Transjordan -- Tristan da Cunha

• Thing: Tango -- tell -- testa -- Tetum -- Thalamus -- That Hideous Strength -- Thatching -- Thermometer -- Thimerosol -- The Three Musketeers -- Time management -- Times New Roman -- Tisane -- Tolerance -- toy -- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus -- Transactivation -- Transportation on the Glorioso Islands -- Transportes Aereos Portugueses -- trial by jury -- Triennial Act of 1641 -- tuft

U

• Person: urban outdoorsman -- Ute -- Universal Music -- United Nations Foundation

• Place: Ulverston -- University of Massachusetts Boston

• Thing: UTFSM -- UNO

V

• Person: Jacint Verdaguer Vomit Pigs

• Place: Vedea -- Visby

• Thing: VIA -- Velotaxi -- vodka

W

• Person: Caspar Weinberger -- Wholesaler -- Ken Wilber -- Tim Wirth -- Ron Wyden

• Place: West Angeles Cathedral -- Wildland -- Workington

• Thing: Wahhabism -- Warhol worm -- Wedding -- Webzine -- The Wild Thornberrys -- WinDVD -- Workaround -- world peace

X

• Person:

• Place:

• Thing:

Y

• Person: Yanka Dyagileva

• Place: Yalta -- Ydalir

• Thing: yak -- Yew -- Youth culture

Z

• Person: zealot -- Renée Zellweger -- Zacarias Moussaoui

• Place:

• Thing: Zarzuela