Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31069347-20171207013900

I am quite confused on what is an article stub actually is and why they are added to certain articles, honestly, it seems that there really is no set definition on the Wiki.

The category page defines it as " Articles that are not nearly long enough and require major expansion."

So what counts as "Not long enough?" and what is "Major Expansion" as in, major expansion of what? At first, I assumed that "Not Long Enough" meant that the article was literally not long enough, but this is evidently false, as pages of all different lengths are tagged like this

Pages tagged with the "article stub" category include:

1. Short Articles like Abyssal Fleet and The Devastator

2. Medium Articles like Sae Niijima

3. Long Articles like Ivy Pepper and Shadow the Hedgehog

it's even more confusing when Head Lined Articles like It (Stephen King) are shorter than the long articles listed as mere Stubs.

Maybe one could argue that the headlined articles are more complete, but I fail to see how if you compare them

If we compare It and Shadow the Hedgehog we see that:

1. Both have a short introduction at the top of the article and an image showing the basic character as well as infoboxes

2. Both have sections explaining the role of the characters in their respected media and sections to briefly talk about appearances in other media

3. both have a section talking about Powers and Abilities

4. Both have sections for Gallery, Quotes, Trivia

Not much else is different aside from minor differences such as It having a video in the article and it's own gallery page

In conclusion, I fail to see why certain articles are named as Stubs by admins, I am confused at what defines a stub, I also apologize if I'm missing something obvious

I hope this can be cleared up

-Shadowchaos 