Edge of Darkness Wiki:Stub

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A stub is defined as a very short article of one paragraph or less. Generally, stub articles are short, vague sentences (or even a single sentence) that fail to cover all but the extreme basics of a subject.

Stubs can be useful as placeholders - if you are in the process of researching a topic or are writing a longer article for inclusion in the wiki, it can be a good idea to start with a short article. However, stubs are also sometimes left in the database, and thus are of very little use to those who read them.

• Before creating a stub article, you should ask yourself if this stub might be useful to anyone. Sometimes it is better to have no article at all than to have one that completely fails to describe even the basic facts about a subject.
• When creating a stub article, please add a stub message to show other contributors that this article needs to be expanded. This procedure is explained below.
• After creating a stub article, don't just leave the article in the database. Try to return after a while to expand the article if no one else did in the meantime.