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	Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub : Stub article Wikipedia:Index > Find or fix a stub A stub on Wikipedia is a very short article, generally of one paragraph or less. For some reason Most Wikipedians hate stubs. Considering that large articles are difficult if you want a potted history of a subject perhaps stubs should be better respected... as long articles may not necessarily be better articles, of course all articles started off as stub. The software can automatically mark short entries if you set the Threshold for stub display higher than 0. This makes it easy to find or fix a stub. See Special:Preferences. If you can't think of anything better to do, you can: search for stub articles and then list them here, better yet – fix one by adding more detail, or go through this list and remove links to articles that are no longer very short. (A tip: clicking on the "What links here" link will show all stub articles linked to this page, inclusive of ones that have not been included on this page's list.) See also: Wikipedia:The perfect stub article. Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention Wikipedia:Utilities for other helpful pages

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This list generally follows the following format:

Letter

Persons (by family name), groups of persons, and companies

Places and times

Things, ideas, and not-yet-categorized stubs

A

Person: ACCU -- Ahulane -- Sture Allén -- Annar -- Andhaka -- Virginia Apgar -- Aramis -- Athos (fictional character) -- Atl -- Awha -- absentee landlord (original meaning) -- AICPA -- Anishinabe -- Ayumi Hamasaki

Place: Athens, Georgia

Thing: accelerator (computing) -- acetoacetic acid -- achondroplasia -- achromatopsia -- active site -- Alitalia -- allegro -- American Quarter Horse -- Annual -- Aramaic language -- Arecaceae -- analytic geometry -- Answering machine -- arctic fox -- animal shell -- adposition -- artificial organ -- Agricultural engineering -- Arab states -- Alal -- Anaire -- Asakku

B

Person: Steve Ballmer -- Barney & Friends -- Michael Barrymore -- Ludwig von Bertalanffy -- Friedrich Bessel -- Hakim Bey -- Charles E. Blake -- Blue Oyster Cult -- Terry Bradshaw -- Bernard Bresslaw -- Bert Bolin -- Connie Booth -- Christian Bohr -- Ramon Baldorioty de Castro

Place: Bo Hai -- Bodhi -- Boxing Day -- Brasilia -- Bruges -- Barbican Estate

Thing: Baud rate -- birth defect -- Bongo -- Bridge piercing -- Business continuity planning -- links from Timeline of Buddhism -- Bowen ratio - Babyasystem -- bushmaster -- Barcan formula -- Bine - Birthmark

C

Person: Cabaguil -- Cacoch -- Camel (band) -- Campus Watch -- Bryan Caplan -- Mike Caro -- John Carroll -- Hayden Christensen -- Chrysler -- Chris Claremont -- Johnny Clegg (musician) -- listing of noted Confucianists -- Chris Cornell -- Raul Castro - Colossus (superhero) -- Culture (band) -- Crinacus

Place: Cairo -- Calleva Atrebatum -- John Carroll University -- The City -- Crete -- Cumberland Games and Diversions

Thing: Cabbage Patch Kids -- calx -- CAM -- CAO -- catecholamine -- cement -- Chapter 11 -- chemical composition -- The Club --Cobra_(snake) -- code fork -- communications channel -- Comparative Historical -- confinement -- Copperhead (possible disambig) -- Corycian Cave -- counterfeiting -- Cracker (TV series) -- creation -- cyst -- cytoskeleton

D

Person: William Davenant -- Buddy DeSylva -- Annie Dillard -- Disciples of Christ -- Dou Xian -- Duellona -- Dutch Reformed Church -- Don Rosa -- Marcus Daly -- Andrew Davies -- The Dictators -- Bob Denver -- Geraint Wyn Davies

Place: Debrecen -- Dublin, Christ Church Cathedral

Thing: Dell Inspiron -- demethylation -- Denazification -- Deputy Prime Minister of Canada -- diffeomorphism -- Dispatch -- disposable income -- Document Editor -- Double Zeta Gundam -- Drama -- Durand line -- Displaced person -- Dead Man (movie) -- Decarboxylation -- Deputy -- Dwarfism -- Dreaming -- US Drug Enforcement Administration -- Drunkard's walk -- Distributed memory -- Deinotherium (it's a prehistoric proto-elephant) -- Doujinishi (fan comic)

E

Person: End-user

Place: Elizabethan era

Thing: Earth: Final Conflict -- East Slavic languages -- Epigram -- Error correction -- Espionage Act -- Ebenaceae -- Eel ladder -- Erlenbach

F

Person: Pompeu Fabra -- freedman -- Brad Fitzpatrick -- Stephen Foster -- FASB -- Bruno Fuligni

Place: Five Points, Manhattan

Thing: Faroese language -- Fosters Lager -- fungible -- Freedom Press -- Falas

G

Person: Gaelic League -- Hugo de Garis --GASB -- girlfriend -- April Glaspie -- gnome -- Good ol' boy network -- Amy Grant -- Tom Guay

Place: Gaeltacht -- Groton, Connecticut -- Gujarat -- Gera -- Gravenhurst, Ontario

Thing: Genotype -- geometric distribution -- Girly girl -- gorilla -- Greek architecture -- Greek statue -- Green River -- Growing Pains -- Gnat -- Guzalu

H

Person: Henry the Young King -- Harivanshrai Bachchan -- John Howard (actor) -- hetman -- hole (band) -- Haji Bashar -- Johns Hopkins -- Winfield Scott Hancock -- Hladgunnr -- Hata Tsutomu

Place: hypothetical planet

Thing: Hellblazer -- herbivore -- Hereditary -- History of US immigration -- hotel -- hnefatafl -- Humanism --Hydrocephalus -- hip -- Hydroxylysine -- hype (information technology) -- Hanbi

I

Person: International Resources Group -- Isten -- Inter-Services Intelligence -- International Resources Group -- Ishmael -- Iman

Place: IIT Madras -- IIT Bombay -- IIT Kanpur -- Iron Age

Thing: Ideas of reference - Idril -- IEEE 802.6 -- Imaginary county -- The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother -- Industrialisation --- Informal economy -- Information technology (particularly pathetic stubs) -- Infusion -- Internet Information Server -- Interzone magazine -- Intuition -- Inventory -- It's all Relative (just a def.) -- Irish fiddling (hardly even counts as a stub)

J

Person: Joachim Nestor Hohenzollern -- Donald Johanson -- Duane Johnson -- Judgment notwithstanding verdict

Place: Jiankang

Thing: Jazz-rock fusion -- Johns Hopkins Hospital -- Jesus Freak (accuracy?)

K

Person: Willem Hendrik Keesom -- K'in -- Leleti Khumalo -- Tracy Kidder

Place: Karnataka -- Khamis Mushait -- Kajang

Thing: Kavalactone -- kimchi -- King Rat -- kunstlerroman -- Knots: (Midshipman's hitch, Timber hitch, Sailor's hitch, Pile hitch, Poldo tackle, Packer's knot, Corned beef knot, Alpine butterfly loop, Alpine butterfly bend) -- Kusanagi -- kawaii

L

Person: Celia Larkin -- Norman Lear -- League for Programming Freedom -- Albert Lebrun -- James Lind -- Lityerses-- Jack Longland -- Erich Ludendorff -- Loretta Lynn

Place:

Thing: Labor (economics) -- Lady's Slipper -- Lawsuit -- Lead styphnate -- Lewis acid -- lost work -- Ludic -- Luganda -- Lupus Erythematosus -- Luteinizing hormone -- Lyrics -- Lex -- Lexx -- LUCA -- Lamashtu -- Lauraceae

M

Person: Chris Marker -- John Mauchly -- Matsushita -- Andy McCoy -- Daniel McFadden -- Melissa -- Metztli -- Miami tribe -- Luca Miti -- John Monash -- Talia Monet -- Medica Mondiale -- Thurston Moore

Place: Modern Japan -- Mora, Sweden -- Mount McKinley -- Mount Vernon (plantation) -- Lake Mithrim

Thing: Mandible -- Mario Kart Super Circuit -- Maxilla -- Mayan mythology links to some 150-odd stubs -- Maze generation algorithm -- MeatballWiki -- Metal detector -- Metabolism -- Millinery -- Millipede (game) -- Mongoose -- monkey -- Monterey Jack -- Mora (linguistics) -- more (UNIX command) -- mores (sociology) -- The Morning Star (British newspaper) -- Movie camera -- Multi-user -- Muckraking -- Mura languages -- Microsoft Passport -- MLDonkey -- The Mummy (1932 movie) -- The Mummy (1959 movie) -- The Mummy (1999 movie)

N

Person: Nacon -- Napalm Death -- Edwin Newmann -- Nick Nolte -- Oliver North -- New Yorker

Place: National Zoo -- Nice

Thing: name -- Nell -- Nilo-Saharan languages -- Nobility -- Non-lethal -- Nothing -- Nucleoside -- NURBS -- Neural tube -- Ninurta

O

Person: Rockne S. O'Bannon -- Johnny O'Keefe -- Ottoman Empire -- Bill Ouchi

Place:

Thing: omnivores -- operand -- Operation Rolling Thunder -- Outcome-based Education -- Oil painting -- Oni -- Offshore construction

P

Person: Marcel Petiot -- Pet Shop Boys -- Laurence J. Peter -- Arthur Phillip -- Pitchshifter (band) -- Roy J. Plunkett -- Porthos -- Dilys Powell -- Richard Pryor

Place: Isle of Portland -- Portoro Buono

Thing: Pacemaker -- pangolin -- panicle -- Parchment -- Pathogen -- petuntse -- Phenotype -- Phocidae (earless seals) -- Pholidota -- Physical anthropology -- pinnate -- Poetry (a lot of links to stub articles here) -- Polish war myths -- Polytechnic -- Pomacanthidae -- Posthuman -- Potlatch -- PowerDVD -- Printing -- Prom -- Profit -- Psychological pain -- psychotherapy -- punishment -- Portland Admiralty Roach -- Portland Independent Top Whitbed -- Paphlagonia -- Phytopathology -- Picullus

Q

Person: Seabury Quinn

Place: Queenstown, New Zealand

Thing: Quick-and-dirty

R

Person: Rabbi Akiva -- Yitzhak Rabin -- Jacob Radcliff -- Ravi -- David Ricardo -- Emperor Rokujo of Japan -- Nellie Tayloe Ross -- Ahmed Ressam -- Romano Prodi -- Sen no Rikyu

Place:

Thing: Rap Metal[?] -- RC5 encryption algorithm -- Rhyme -- Rhythm -- rockumentary -- rogue-o-matic -- Continental Rationalism -- Retailer -- Rapira programming language -- Reverse osmosis (Biology) -- Rise of the Robots -- Ridolfi Plot -- Recalcitrant seed -- Ruble -- Rabisu -- Rosaviakosmos -- Rusalka

S

Person: Sai Baba -- Saint Michael -- Saint Stephen -- Léopold Senghor -- William H. Seward -- Sex worker -- Alan Sillitoe -- Long John Silver -- Sors -- Stephen Bourne -- Sun Quan -- Loretta Swit -- Devon Sawa -- Sangoma -- Prunella Scales -- Son Goku -- Bob Smith -- Samuel Skinner

Place: Sabine -- Saigon -- Serengeti National Park -- South African Republic -- Sea of Rhun[?] -- Swords -- Sydney Greenstreet

Thing: sampler -- Sandhi -- scatology -- Scots Gaelic language -- seaweed -- Secular humanism -- seismology -- sesame seed -- sestina -- Severe Combined Immunodeficiency -- sky -- Sleepless in Seattle -- social psychology -- socionics -- somatic cell -- sore throat -- spectralism -- spine (anatomy) -- storm -- suffering -- sugoroku -- Sum of Logic -- Suture -- Symbian OS -- Slug -- Shedu -- Sorcerer

T

Person: Talocan -- The Offspring -- Tohil -- Tomboy -- Patrick Troughton -- Jun Tsuji -- Barbara W. Tuchman -- Transmeta -- Teacher -- Franjo Tudjman -- Takashi Miike (Japanese filmmaker) -- The Transplants

Place: Teheran, Iran -- Thane -- Tourist attraction -- Transjordan -- Tristan da Cunha

Thing: Tango -- tally mark -- tell -- testa -- Tetum -- Thalamus -- That Hideous Strength -- Thatching -- Thermometer -- Thimerosol -- The Three Musketeers -- Time management -- Times New Roman -- Tisane -- Tolerance -- toy -- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus -- Transactivation -- Translation (biology) -- Transportation on the Glorioso Islands -- Transportes Aereos Portugueses -- trial by jury -- Triennial Act of 1641 -- tuft -- Turn-based Gaming -- Thorondor

U

Person: urban outdoorsman -- Ute -- Universal Music -- United Nations Foundation

Place: Ulverston -- University of Massachusetts Boston -- Ural River

Thing: UNO (game) -- UTFSM

V

Person: Luther Vandross -- Jacint Verdaguer -- Vomit Pigs

Place: Vanaheim -- Vedea -- Visby

Thing: VIA -- Velotaxi -- vodka

W

Person: Otto Wallach -- Caspar Weinberger -- Wholesaler -- Ken Wilber -- Tim Wirth -- Ron Wyden -- Bill Wilson

Place: Waikato -- Waikato river -- West Angeles Cathedral -- Wildland -- Workington

Thing: Webzine -- Warhol worm -- The Wild Thornberrys -- WinDVD -- Workaround -- world peace -- Women's Land Army

Y

Person: Yanka Dyagileva

Place: Yalta -- Ydalir

Thing: yak -- YMHA -- Youth culture

Z

Person: Zacarias Moussaoui

Place:

Thing: Zarzuela

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