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===Real world stub=== | ===Real world stub=== | ||
Real world stubs are the most varied kind of stub, because they can be applied to an article about ''anything'' in the [[category:Real World|real world super-category]], aside from stories. Production personnel, games, companies, merchandise and many other things can be slapped with the real world stub tag, | Real world stubs are the most varied kind of stub, because they can be applied to an article about ''anything'' in the [[category:Real World|real world super-category]], aside from stories. Production personnel, games, companies, merchandise and many other things can be slapped with the real world stub tag, | ||
====People==== | =====People===== | ||
Sadly, most articles about production personnel are currently stubs on this wiki. The vast majority merely give the stories on which a person worked, or might additionally tell the roles an actor played. This is the very minimum a real world personnel article requires to avoid deletion, but is the very ''definition'' of a real world stub. | Sadly, most articles about production personnel are currently stubs on this wiki. The vast majority merely give the stories on which a person worked, or might additionally tell the roles an actor played. This is the very minimum a real world personnel article requires to avoid deletion, but is the very ''definition'' of a real world stub. | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
====Behind-the-scenes jobs and terminology==== | =====Behind-the-scenes jobs and terminology===== | ||
Articles which focus defining [[category:production team titles|behind-the-scenes jobs]] like "[[best boy]]" can also be stubs. These are usually seen as pages which merely give a list of all the people who have held that title. Such pages are actually just lists, not proper articles. A "job" page should endeavor to describe what the job is. Lists of the people holding those jobs are incidental, and often should be spun out into a page, like the as-yet-unwritten, [[List of best boys]]. | Articles which focus defining [[category:production team titles|behind-the-scenes jobs]] like "[[best boy]]" can also be stubs. These are usually seen as pages which merely give a list of all the people who have held that title. Such pages are actually just lists, not proper articles. A "job" page should endeavor to describe what the job is. Lists of the people holding those jobs are incidental, and often should be spun out into a page, like the as-yet-unwritten, [[List of best boys]]. | ||
