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As always, a stub is wholly or ''almost'' entirely missing some of these details. It's not something that is just missing a few of these details. | As always, a stub is wholly or ''almost'' entirely missing some of these details. It's not something that is just missing a few of these details. | ||
====Merchandise==== | ====Merchandise==== | ||
An article about a line of merchandise should explain what the merchandise is and give an accounting of the various specific products within that range. Any article which is ''just'' a listing of the items (unless the article's title is prefaced with the words '''List of''' or '''Gallery of''') is a stub. Likewise an article which just has a few sentences that characterize the product is also a stub. An article need not list ''every single'' product in th range, nor must it give all the details in the range to be a full article. But it must at least attempt to give both a general range description ''and'' provide specific examples. | |||
Things that are important to develop a full merchandise article include, but are not limited to: | |||
*History of the range. When did it start? When did it end? | |||
*The physical characteristics of the members of that range. What are their dimensions? What materials were they made out of? If printed, how many pages did they typically contain? If audio or video, what was their general runtime and format? | |||
*Intended age range of the product's consumers. | |||
*Relation to other ranges. How does the range under discussion compare to others? Is it a "young person's version", as with [[Quick Reads]] versus the [[New Series Adventures]]? Is it for more mature audiences, as with the [[Virgin New Adventure]] range versus the [[Target novelisation]]s? | |||
*Country of origin. While most ''Doctor Who'' products have been historically British, this is no longer the case. It would be important to the any of the [[IDW Publishing]] comic ranges to note their American origin, for instance. | |||
*Any evidence of the relative commercial success of the range. | |||
Note that an article doesn't have to answer ''all'' these questions to avoid being classed as a stub. But a proper article will attempt to give a sort of context for the range that a stub lacks. | |||
====Terminology and concepts==== | ====Terminology and concepts==== | ||
