Help:Stub
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It is night. You are hungry, so you rise from bed and walk in the darkness. You accidentally bang your toe against the wall. You say:
- "Ow! I stubbed my toe!"
That stub was no fun. But a stub at Wikibooks is relatively harmless. At Wikibooks, stubs are short, apparently incomplete modules.
Typically, a stub appears because someone creates a new chapter or module of a book which is missing most of the intended content. Stubs tend to only contain a brief description or a suggestion of what the content should be. An incomplete table of contents is also a stub. (If the module only contains nonsense, then it can be marked for speedy deletion.)
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You can use {{stub}} to mark any stub. When one section of a module is a stub, then you can use {{sectstub}}.
The {{incomplete}} marker does not add the page to any category. Some users prefer this to the stub marker.
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Notes:
- the green background is not a requirement for these templates.
- Template:Specific_book_stub is a meta-template for book stubs; you can see an example in use at Template:Haskell stub
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| {{Calculus Stub}} |
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| {{Circuit Theory Stub}} | This section of the Circuit Theory wikibook is a stub. You can help by expanding this section.
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| {{Communication Systems Stub}} | This section of the Communication Systems book is a stub. You can help by expanding this section. |
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| {{Embedded Systems/Stub}} | The Stub page of the Embedded Systems wikibook is a stub. You can help by expanding this section. |
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| {{Signals and Systems Stub}} | This page of the Signals and Systems wikibook is a stub. You can help by expanding this section. |
| {{Use the Source/stub}} |
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| {{Wmog-stub}} |
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[edit] History
- This project page was adapted 30 November 2005 from Wiktionary:Wiktionary:Find or fix a stub and Wikicities:c:Gameinfo:GameinfoWiki:Stub, used under the GNU Free Documentation License.Well this is boring..........
