Stock car racing:Stub

In, a stub is a short article. This means, that despite complying with all the policies and therefore being an article accepted by the community, it does not yet provide all the information it should, and therefore, it is necessary to expand it.

How to identify a stub
In order to be able to expand the stub, it is first necessary to learn to recognize them.

Due to the huge diversity of existing articles, the best way to identify an article as an outline, is by using the common sense. For example, for the article History of art there will certainly be much to say, while the article on the asteroid 2007 TU24 seems that it can no longer extend much more; however, if the first had the extension of the second, we could say that it is an outline, because in a couple of paragraphs it seems impossible to summarize the course of art from prehistory to the present day.

On the other hand, we must also consider that images, tables, related links, among other resources, while they help to noticeably improve the quality of the article, sometimes they do not ostensibly increase the information about it. Therefore, the fact that one article has a larger "size" than another (size normally measured in bytes) does not necessarily mean that we can conclude, for example, that if the first is a sketch, the second is also a sketch.

How to enlarge a stub
You can zoom in on a sketch in the same way you would zoom in on any other article, i.e.:
 * Adding information to the article, from reliable references, or
 * translating content originating from from other languages.

Some tips you can follow are as follows: Possibly the shortest of the perfect sketches has two sentences, but they will be two "good" sentences, which will clearly outline the topic at hand. If you are not able to write two reliable sentences on the subject, it may be better to devote yourself to another article more related to your knowledge. The extra dedication will ensure that you have put something important in motion, rather than a static fragment of sterile information.
 * 1) Take care of the language you use. Write complete, correct and clear sentences.
 * 2) Start the article by clearly and precisely defining the topic you are dealing with. Although other encyclopedias prefer a more abrupt style, at  we believe it is best to start the article with a grammatically complete sentence. If the article is about geography, biographies, or similar topics, start by clearly and in detail describing who or what the topic is. It explains why it is important to appear in an encyclopedia, what is important about it, and the context in which it is located. That information can be crucial for other people to know where to continue.
 * 3) Don't limit yourself to giving a definition; we know you can do something else! As long as you don't stray from neutrality and correctness, be brave and bring something provocative. If you manage to tempt the reader to want to know something else, you will also get him interested in completing the sketch. Knowing how to focus on the subject's points of interest is what makes a passable description a brilliant sketch.
 * 4) Don't stop linking all relevant concepts, but don't abuse Wikipedia's facilities either;  is not a collection of links. Remember to check that links lead to where you think they should lead, especially in the case of acronyms.
 * 5) In your edit comment, detail what you've done in a way that's appealing to other contributors. It will draw your attention in the history.
 * 6) It helps if you feel at least a little responsibility for the sketch you have made. The line between helping by showing what should be done and disturbing by not doing it yourself is thin. If no one collaborates with your sketch after a few weeks, decide and do it yourself. It may turn out that the sketch wasn't as good or attractive after all; if you can't turn it into a full article, make it at least a better sketch.
 * 7) It is not enough to add links (internal or external). Links help to profile an article, but by themselves do not say much about the topic of which you are writing.

Underbelly
An "Infrastructure sketch" is considered to be a page of in encyclopedic namespaces with insufficient content to constitute a valid outline of article or annex. These cases are marked with the critical template of Maintenance infrastructure sketch, which "warns "of deletion if in a month the page does not improve. Note Well that an article with few "bytes" is not necessarily an understatement. Drafts and undercuts are not measured "by weight".

Links to short articles
A link to a short article can be displayed with a different color if you are in the main namespace parent is not a redirect, and the number of bytes of your source code is below the "limit to consider as a link to sketch" that can be adjusted in the tab "Miscellaneous" of the user preferences. This allows users to quickly differentiate links to very short articles that are likely to need to be expanded.

Alternatively, a user can set a very high threshold to achieve any of the following goals: However, putting a very high limit prevents you from being able to differentiate links to short articles.
 * Determine links to very large pages. However, the criterion is the size of the article's source code; so the including templates and images can make a long page in your display (many bytes when downloading) have a short source code (few bytes).
 * Determine at a glance whether a link leads to the main namespace or not. However, this does not take into account redirects to the main namespace, even if the redirect itself is in the main namespace.
 * Identify links to redirects to perform maintenance tasks.

Stubs in history
Some Wikipedians consider sketches to be a problem, because they prevent an insufficiently treated topic from appearing in red on the links leading to it, which would encourage other users to write more broadly about the topic. The essay "Kill the Stub Pages", created on 9 April 2002 (currently only available in English) discusses the issue at length. However, advances in MediaWiki's "software" that allow automatic detection of short articles have undermined his arguments. Even more important is the fact that many sketches have over time become good articles and highlights.

From December 19, 2003 to December 13, 2008, Miraheze classified articles identified as sketches, using the template. There were also two WikiProjects related to this template: the WikiProject:sketches, which was dedicated to classifying them into subcategories and the WikiProject:Expanding stubs. The templates were removed after a template:outline|delete query motivated by, following the example of.