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When you see a stub article, we hope that you will:
- Mark it as a stub article, if it hasn't already been so designated.
- Start expanding it, so that it is no longer a stub.
Why are there stubs?
- The main reason there are stubs is that a contributor wanted to start an article for later expansion.
- A good reason to start stub articles is, for example, to increase the odds that all the judges in a particular court will have the same category designation, which is very helpful for future organizing.
- Because of this, sometimes a contributor will start a series of stubs on all the judges in a particular court that are nothing more than an introductory sentence and a category.
Mark an article as a stub
In order to indicate that an article is a stub, at a minimum, just type {{stub}} at the beginning or end of the article. However, it can be more helpful for organizing purposes if you indicate which project the article is a stub in, such as {{Alabama stub}} or {{Federal stub}}.
Expand a stub
One of the most helpful things you can do is to expand and improve articles that are currently ranked as stubs. Here are some ideas on how to get started as a writer on Judgepedia.
If you want to learn more about the overall aims and goals of the project that the article is a stub in, please consult this list of projects.
If you believe that an article has been expanded to the point where it no longer qualifies as a stub article, please remove any stub templates from the article.
Stub templates
Different projects on Judgepedia use different stub templates.
Plain stub
If you don't want to say that a stub article belongs to a particular project, you can simply designate it as a stub by typing {{stub}} either at the very beginning or end of the article. That template looks like this:
State stubs
Every state on Judgepedia has its own stub. You can summon them by writing State stub in two curly brackets, i.e. {{Arizona stub}}.
Removing stub designation
If you believe that an article has been expanded to the point where it no longer qualifies as a stub article, please remove any stub templates from the article.
There is no hard-and-fast rule to determine when an article has grown past the stub stage. However, an article would generally no longer be considered a stub if it:
- Has several paragraphs or sections that provide a reasonably informative introduction to the topic of the article
- Has several references, citations or external links
- Includes relevant templates
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