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Welcome to the Stub Improvement WikiProject! Our goal here is to get stubs built up into useful, well-sourced articles. Of all Wikipedia articles, 33.974% are currently stubs, approximately 2,300,000 articles.
A stub is any article that has only basic information while omitting important aspects of the topic. There is no exact size that defines a stub, but most articles under 250–300 words will be considered stubs. Articles with more than 500 words are almost never stubs. Stubs are often tagged with a stub template at the bottom of the article; when the article is expanded, this template should be removed. Articles may also be classified as stubs on talk page banners, and these banners should be updated as well.
Participating is simple:
rm stub; Wikipedia:Database reports/Long stubs; Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub improvement; [[WP:STIM|you can help!]]
For Stub-class articles, here is a PetScan example to create a smaller group of articles from a large category.
Since the Stub class is set on the article's Talk page, review each article for a missing stub tag (to add) if needed; or if the article is improved, remove the stub tag and upgrade to class "Start" or higher.
This WikiProject does not use a WikiProject banner, as stubs are already designated through stub templates, and those are maintained at WikiProject Stub sorting. But we do have userboxes that you can place on your user page:
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