The STUB greenhouse is the most needed place of all, it has over 22,000 articles and half of them are ever fixed. We need more help in this greenhouse! Please chip in =D To find articles you know about go in the categories, pick your favorite or most know-about category, and on the side there will show articles that need further editing. Most of them are STUB! And guess what? It still says you worked in the greenhouse.
I would love to help, but I don’t have much knowledge about most topics. I just help with cleanup and copyedits and making articles the best. Still, I’m going to see what I can do.
I have given advice for that: “To find articles you know about go in the wikiHow categories, pick your favorite or most know-about category, and on the side there will show articles that need further editing. Most of them are STUB”
Alright. Ill check that now instead of picture patrolling.
Anna
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I think expanding stubs is a great way to get into deep editing and can result in some awesome articles! It’s worth keeping in mind as you go that these articles are marked as stubs because they’re currently probably not helpful enough for readers; they might be new and not detailed enough, or they might be older articles that used to meet our standards but don’t anymore. So the best way to go is probably to focus on topics you *really* know well and
are prepared to research in depth to provide sources and references. Adding a couple of sentences to a stub often doesn’t make it much more helpful and generally won’t warrant removal of the stub tag – it’s different from copyediting or cleaning up in that way, like @Darkfrost
said. Many of these articles need big bold expansions before they’re ready for readers. If you’re game to give a stub a lotof editing and research love to help it thrive, go for it, but it’d be best to aim for something really substantial before any tag removal. Aim high – go for real depth and get it to RS quality or more before you remove the tag!
older articles that used to meet our standards but don’t anymore - x 2
Some people start articles lazily. Don’t you think so?
+1 That’s one thing why STUB is so packed. If you find an article you know about and it has a STUB you might be able to make it RS quality. Doing at least 2 articles is enough and I’d like to mention that you can give articles a little editing while you use the tool.
Haha
They may not know about the topic they chose which is bad
