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A stub is a very short article, often a paragraph or less, containing an insufficient amount of information. You can help Bulbapedia by finding stubs and editing them, adding more information, and thereby expanding them. As Bulbapedia is a collaborative encyclopedia, any user can contribute to any article. | A stub is a very short article, often a paragraph or less, containing an insufficient amount of information. You can help Bulbapedia by finding stubs and editing them, adding more information, and thereby expanding them. As Bulbapedia is a collaborative encyclopedia, any user can contribute to any article. | ||
The page you were previously visiting is a stub. You can help Bulbapedia grow by clicking the "back" button on your browser and then expanding that page. | The page you were previously visiting is probably a stub. You can help Bulbapedia grow by clicking the "back" button on your browser and then expanding that page. | ||
If you create an article that is a stub, please put this at the end of the article: '''<nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki>'''. Doing so will display this message: | If you create an article that is a stub, please put this at the end of the article: '''<nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki>'''. Doing so will display this message: | ||
{{stub}} | {{stub}} | ||
If you saw that message on the article, but the article is developed well beyond stub status, please feel free to remove the tag. If the article is much longer than a stub but still incomplete, rather than marking it as a stub, please add this template to the start of the article: <nowiki>{{incomplete}}</nowiki> | |||
There are different stub messages and categories for different types of articles: | There are different stub messages and categories for different types of articles: | ||