User blog:Androgynousweirdo/Article stub audit

I said I wasn't going to do it, but then I realized it may actually be the best use of my time, so... I'm doing a stub audit. :D

Two reasons:


 * 1) When I was trying to get oriented on the wiki, the first thing I wanted to do was help fill out stubs, but it was almost impossible to tell what articles actually needed work and what didn't because almost everything is a stub. So, hopefully this will prevent new Wikia contributors from getting discouraged like I almost did!


 * 1) As I've been writing episode synopses, I've made a number of stub articles to mark things I need to come back and do proper research on. Being able to find those articles more easily, or have other people find them, will be a boon.

Criteria for a stub
I'll be relying pretty heavily on the Wikipedia article about stubs for this. Basically, I'll use two rules of thumb:

Is it short? The general rule of thumb is to cut off stubs at 250 words / 1500 characters. Any longer article that still looks like it needs significant work will be marked for cleanup instead.

Should it be longer? Some things just don't need a lot of explanation, so anything that only shows up in an episode or two / doesn't have much history, I'll consider complete. This is admittedly a much more subjective cutoff, but my goal is not to mark every article that *could* possibly have more information added to it; just to mark articles that clearly have basic things missing.

I have no idea how much work this is going to be. Maybe a lot. Especially if I also decide to do the reverse, and check every non-stub article to see if it needs to be marked as such. Anyway, wish me luck!