Forum:Expand template

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There are a number of articles on the site, most notably 13 Bannerman Road, which are labeled as stubs, but have a good deal more content than I would associate with a stub article.

On Wikipedia, these articles are labeled with the Expand tag. When I went to put this tag on the Bannerman article, it was redlinked -- the site didn't recognize it.

Do we use the expand tag? And if not, should we?--[email protected] 02:52, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't see why there should be two tags which have similar purpose (just one is more so). I mean, if the page has a stub or a expand tag it would still need more content.

Of course, this just makes me wonder why we have both a Clean Up and Gone to Pot Template. -<Azes13 03:27, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

The main reason that occurs to me is that it helps us to prioritize what pages need to be added to. By having a separate section for stubs and expand articles, we can see what barely has any content and needs updating to be of any use, and what has a good bit of information, but could do with more.

A simple way of looking at it, I suppose, is this: What is the purpose of having the Stub Template, and would that purpose be better served/utilized by having a separate Expand template?--TheOmnius 03:39, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure if this is true for all the editors here, but I've never prioritized for which pages I add to or clean up. If there's a page which I can improve, I will try to improve it, be it a page with the Cleanup tag or the Gone to Pot tag. Even if a page needs a lot of work, if I can't improve, I won't improve it.

And the stub template is used to tell people that the page needs more information. An expand template would be used to tell people that the page needs a bit more information. Much the same, really. -<Azes13 14:29, 19 January 2009 (UTC)