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A stub on Wikipedia is a very short article, generally of one paragraph or less. Most Wikipedians hate stubs, which is undeserved. Many articles start off as stubs, and grow into more complete articles over time. Indeed, a long, rambling article may address a subject less thoroughly than a short, direct one. Quantity does not equal quality. In general, though, stubs usually fail to treat any but the most trivial subject completely.

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

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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

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• Person:

• Place:

• Thing: 311 (band)

A

• Person: Afghan National Museum -- Ahulane -- Alexander Campbell (Restoration movement) -- Sture Allén -- Annar -- Andhaka -- Virginia Apgar -- Aramis -- Karl Arnold -- Artaxerxes III --Artificial respiration -- Athos (fictional character) -- Atl -- Awha -- Anishinabe -- Ayumi Hamasaki -- An Jung-geun

• Place: Athens, Georgia

• Thing: accelerator (computing) -- acetoacetic acid -- achondroplasia -- American Quarter Horse -- Annual -- anthracene -- Arecaceae -- Arecales -- Answering machine -- adposition -- artificial organ -- Agricultural engineering -- Alal -- Anaire -- Asakku -- Amnon -- A Plus

B

• Person: Bad Company -- Steve Ballmer -- Barney & Friends -- Michael Barrymore -- Ostap Bender -- Ludwig von Bertalanffy -- Friedrich Bessel -- Hakim Bey -- Black Orchid -- Charles E. Blake -- William Blackstone -- Blue Oyster Cult -- Bert Bolin -- Connie Booth -- Christian Bohr -- Ramon Baldorioty de Castro -- Bonnie Burnard -- Rob Bourdon -- Brahmagupta] -- Bernard Bresslaw -- Boz Burrell

• Place: Baekje -- Barnstaple -- Bodhi -- Brasilia -- Bruges -- Balmoral -- Bellingham railway station -- Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park -- Buenos Aires province -- Bobbejaanland

• Thing: Baud rate -- birth defect -- Bongo -- Bridge piercing -- Business continuity planning -- links from Timeline of Buddhism -- Bowen ratio - Babyasystem -- bushmaster -- Barcan formula -- Bine - Birthmark -- Banca d'Italia -- Battle of Dairen -- Blackpool F.C. -- Bunker -- Breach of contract

C

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

• Place: Calleva Atrebatum -- John Carroll University -- Chinese University of Hong Kong -- The City -- Crete -- Cumberland Games and Diversions

• Thing: calx -- CAM -- camphor -- CAO -- catecholamine -- cement -- Chautauqua Institution -- chemical composition -- Chemical waste -- The Club -- Coast -- Cobra_(snake) -- code fork -- communications channel -- Comparative Historical -- compos mentis -- confinement -- Constant bit rate -- Conveyancing -- Copperhead (possible disambig) -- Corycian Cave -- cyst -- cytoskeleton -- Caucus -- Certification -- Chieftain -- Christendom -- Clan -- Common ash -- Confusion -- Constitution of Norway -- Commercial law -- Civil Code of Quebec -- Constitution of Chile -- Cytoplasm

D

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

• Place: Debrecen -- Dublin, Christ Church Cathedral

• Thing: Dell Inspiron -- demethylation -- Denazification -- Dentistry -- diffeomorphism -- Dispatch -- disposable income -- Document Editor -- Double Zeta Gundam -- Drama -- Dungeon Crawl -- Durand line -- Displaced person -- Dead Man (movie) -- Decarboxylation -- Deputy -- Dwarfism -- Dreaming -- Drunkard's walk -- Distributed memory -- Deinotherium (it's a prehistoric proto-elephant)

E

• Person: End-user -- Gnassigbe Eyadema

• Place: Elizabethan era -- East Fortune

• Thing: Earth: Final Conflict -- East Slavic languages -- Emperor dragonfly -- Epigram -- Espionage Act -- Ebenaceae -- Eel ladder -- Erlenbach -- Egyptian mythology

F

• Person: Pompeu Fabra -- Free (band) -- freedman -- Brad Fitzpatrick -- Bruno Fuligni

• Place: Five Points, Manhattan -- Forbidden_Forest

• Thing: Fanon -- Faroese language -- fieldwork -- Flavonoid -- Foramen magnum -- Fosters Lager -- fungibility -- Freedom Press -- Falas

G

• Person: Gaelic League -- Hugo de Garis --GASB -- April Glaspie -- gnome -- Good ol' boy network -- Tom Guay

• Place: Gaeltacht -- Groton, Connecticut -- Gera -- Gravenhurst, Ontario -- Grand Central Station

• Thing: gamebird -- geochemistry -- geometric distribution -- geopolitics -- Girly girl -- GoldenEye (movie) -- golden retriever -- Goldfinger -- gorilla -- Greek architecture -- Greek statue -- Green River -- Growing Pains -- Gnat -- Guzalu -- Gaulish -- Gaumata -- Grand Alliance

H

• Person: Harivanshrai Bachchan -- John Howard (actor) -- Roman Herzog -- Theodor Heuss -- hetman -- hole (band) -- Haji Bashar -- Johns Hopkins -- Hladgunnr -- Hata Tsutomu

• Place: Hong Kong Baptist University -- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology -- hypothetical planet -- Hamburg, New York

• Thing:Hellblazer -- herbivore -- Hereditary -- History of US immigration -- Humanism --Hydrocephalus -- hip -- Hydroxylysine -- hype (information technology) -- Hanbi -- His and Her Circumstances

I

Person

-- International Resources Group -- Isten -- Inter-Services Intelligence -- International Resources Group -- Ishmael -- Iman

Place

-- IIT Madras -- IIT Bombay -- IIT Kanpur -- Iron Age

Thing

-- Ideas of reference -- Idril -- IEEE 802.15 -- IEEE 802.16 -- IEEE 802.6 -- Imaginary county -- The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother -- Industrialisation -- Informal economy -- Information technology (particularly pathetic stubs) -- Infusion -- Internet Information Server -- Interzone magazine -- Intuition -- Inventory -- It's all Relative (just a def.) -- Irish fiddling -- Indian English -- Introspector -- IRRI -- In Search of the Miraculous

J

• Person:Joachim Nestor Hohenzollern -- Donald Johanson -- Duane Johnson -- Jollibee -- Judgment notwithstanding verdict -- Justin Pierce -- Joey Smallwood

• Place:Jerusalem's Old City Walls -- Jiankang

• Thing:Jazz-rock fusion -- Johns Hopkins Hospital -- Jesus Freak (accuracy?) -- Journaling

K

• Person: Willem Hendrik Keesom -- K'in -- Leleti Khumalo -- Tracy Kidder -- Oskar Klein -- David Koresh

• Place: Karnataka -- Khamis Mushait -- Kajang -- Kwai Chung

• Thing: Kavalactone -- 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) -- Kaizen -- Kusanagi -- kawaii -- Kateretes -- Keykode -- Kh -- Khornerstone -- KL0 -- KL1 -- KLOC -- KL-ONE -- KMODEL -- KOMPILER -- KRL -- KUB -- Kanon

L

• Person: Lagadha -- Celia Larkin -- Norman Lear -- League for Programming Freedom -- Albert Lebrun -- James Lind -- Lityerses-- Jack Longland -- Heinrich Lübke -- Luis De Torres -- Loretta Lynn

• Place: Lingnan University -- The Lizard -- London Zoo

• Thing: Labor (economics) -- Lady Jane (movie) -- Lady's Slipper -- Lawsuit -- Lead styphnate -- Left-handed -- Lewis acid -- List of female composers -- lost work -- Ludic -- Luganda -- Lupus Erythematosus -- Luteinizing hormone -- Lyrics -- LUCA -- Lamashtu -- Lauraceae -- Loding -- Loess -- Lombok -- Lugier -- Lhop/Doya

M

• Person: Cameron Mackintosh -- John Mauchly -- Fazel Ahmed Manawi -- Matsushita -- Andy McCoy -- Daniel McFadden -- Melissa -- Metztli -- Miami tribe -- Bubber Miley -- Luca Miti-- Zazie Evi Moechel -- John Monash -- Talia Monet -- Medica Mondiale -- Thurston Moore -- Peter Dodds McCormick

• Place: Matamata, New Zealand -- Mesoproterozoic, Modern Japan -- Mora, Sweden -- Mount McKinley -- Mount Vernon (plantation) -- Lake Mithrim

• Thing: Magnavox -- Mallela -- Mandible -- Mario Kart Super Circuit -- Marvel Comics - Maxilla -- Mayan mythology links to some 150-odd stubs -- Maze generation algorithm -- MeatballWiki -- Metal detector -- Metabolism -- Millinery -- Millipede (game) -- Mongoose -- monkey -- Monterey Jack -- Mora (linguistics) -- mores (sociology) -- The Morning Star (British newspaper) -- Movie camera -- Multi-user -- Mura languages -- Microsoft Passport -- MLDonkey -- The Mummy (1932 movie) -- The Mummy (1959 movie) -- The Mummy (1999 movie) -- Mondino -- Mooney

N

• Person: Nacon -- Edwin Newmann -- Oliver North -- New Yorker

• Place: National Zoo

• Thing: Nell -- Nikita -- Nilo-Saharan languages -- Non-lethal -- Nothing -- Nucleoside -- Neural tube -- Ninurta -- Netwar -- New Jersey Institute of Technology -- New York Court of Appeals

O

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

• Place: Orange, France

• Thing: omnivores -- operand -- Operation Rolling Thunder -- Oil painting -- Okinawan language -- Oni -- Offshore construction -- OpenLDAP -- Operation Valiant Strike -- OSGi -- Outland

P

• Person: Brock Peters -- Marcel Petiot -- Laurence J. Peter -- Arthur Phillip -- Pitchshifter (band) -- Roy J. Plunkett -- Porthos -- Dilys Powell -- Richard Pryor

• Place: Paleoproterozoic -- Isle of Portland -- Portoro Buono -- Polokwane -- Pushkin (town)

• Thing: - P-adic analysis -- panicle -- Parchment -- Pathogen -- Patrimony of affectation -- Peasants' War -- penny loafers -- Perfect Blue -- petuntse-- Physical anthropology -- Pickering nuclear power plant -- Poetry (a lot of links to stub articles here) -- Pollen -- Polyethylene terephthalate -- Polytechnic -- Pomacanthidae -- Posthuman -- Potlatch -- PowerDVD -- Printing -- Prom -- Profit -- punishment -- Portland Admiralty Roach -- Portland Independent Top Whitbed -- Paphlagonia -- Phytopathology -- Picullus -- Patrilocality -- Pericardium -- Pizza Haven -- Prill -- Puck (magazine) -- Pasteurellosis -- Political sociology

Q

• Person: Seabury Quinn

• Place: Queenstown, New Zealand

• Thing: Quick-and-dirty

R

• Person: Rothschild family -- Yitzhak Rabin -- Jacob Radcliff -- Mick Ralphs -- Ravi -- David Ricardo -- Emperor Rokujo of Japan -- Nellie Tayloe Ross -- Ahmed Ressam -- Romano Prodi -- Elihu Root -- Sen no Rikyu

• Place:

• Thing: Rajasaurus Narmadensis -- Rhyme -- Rhythm -- rockumentary -- rogue-o-matic -- Continental Rationalism -- Rapira programming language -- Rise of the Robots -- Ridolfi Plot -- Recalcitrant seed -- Ruble -- Rabisu -- Root -- Root (linguistics) -- Rosaviakosmos -- Rules of evidence -- Rusalka -- Rival Schools

S

• Person: Sai Baba -- Saint Michael -- Walter Scheel -- Saint Stephen -- Léopold Senghor -- William H. Seward -- Session -- Sex worker -- Long John Silver -- Sors -- Statler & Waldorf -- Stephen Bourne -- Sun Quan -- Loretta Swit -- Devon Sawa -- Sangoma -- Prunella Scales -- Bob Smith -- Samuel Skinner -- Saint Wenceslas

• Place: Sabine -- Saudi Arabia -- Serengeti National Park -- South African Republic -- Sea of Rhun -- Swords -- Sydney Greenstreet

• Thing: Sabbat (neopaganism) -- sampler -- Sandhi -- scatology -- Scots Gaelic language -- seaweed -- Secular humanism -- seismology -- sesame seed -- sestina -- Severe Combined Immunodeficiency -- sexual harassment -- Shas -- Shedu -- Sleepless in Seattle -- Slug -- sky -- social psychology -- socionics -- somatic cell -- Sophont -- Sorcerer -- sore throat -- Southern California Surf -- spectralism -- spine (anatomy) -- storm -- styrofoam -- Standing stone -- Studio orchestra -- Sugoroku -- Sukhavati -- Sum of Logic -- Suture -- Sweetbread -- Symbian OS

T

• Person: Tohil -- Patrick Troughton -- Jun Tsuji -- Barbara W. Tuchman -- Transmeta -- Teacher -- Franjo Tudjman -- The Transplants -- The Fast and the Furious -- The P.T.L. Klub -- The Rangers -- The Renegades -- The Snowmen -- The Sunrays -- Rob Theakston -- Liv_Tyler

• Place: Talocan -- Tanzania -- Tehran -- Tourist attraction -- Transjordan -- Tristan da Cunha --Trentino-South Tyrol

• Thing: -- tally mark -- tell -- testa -- Tetum -- Thalamus -- That Hideous Strength -- Thatching -- Thermometer -- Thermopylae -- Thimerosal -- The Three Musketeers -- Time management -- Times New Roman -- Tolerance -- toy -- Transactivation -- Transportes Aereos Portugueses -- Triennial Act of 1641 -- tuft -- Turn-based gaming -- Tusk -- Thorondor -- The School of Night -- two hundred fifty-five

U

• Person: Ute -- Universal Music -- United Nations Foundation -- Leon Uris

• Place: University of Hong Kong -- Ulverston -- University of Massachusetts Boston -- Ural River

• Thing: United States Postal Service -- UTFSM -- US television news -- Urban sociology

V

• Person: Luther Vandross -- Jacint Verdaguer -- Vomit Pigs

• Place: Vanaheim -- Vedea -- Viriat -- Visby

• Thing: VIA -- Velotaxi -- Verdandi -- vodka -- vowel shift

W

• Person: Otto Wallach -- Mary Jane Watson -- Caspar Weinberger -- Richard von Weizsäcker -- Wholesaler -- Ken Wilber -- Tim Wirth -- Ron Wyden -- Bill Wilson

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

• Thing: Webzine -- Warhol worm -- The Wild Thornberrys -- WinDVD -- Workaround -- world peace -- Women's Land Army

X

• Person:

• Place:

• Thing: X2 -- XFree86 -- XWin

Y

• Person: Yanka Dyagileva -- Yoshimichi Hara -- Yehiel DeNur

• Place: Yalta -- Ydalir

• Thing: Yajnavalkya -- YMHA -- Youth culture

Z

• Person:

• Place:

• Thing: Zarzuela