What classifies as a stub?

[RenegadeShroom]

I just created an article on Human, but I added only a brief, non-detailed summary of what he did in MB3, and didn't include much information on that at all. Does that make the article a stub, or does the "origin" section save it from that?

[Windrunner he/him]

I'm not the wiki admin, so Joe probably knows better then I. However I would have to guess that it's not quite out of the stub woods yet. If it had a section on Human's role in MB3 then I'd say it was completely done, and didn't need any more information and should no longer be classified as a stub. If it's something that had next to no information anywhere and was impossible to expand that would be one thing. I'm not exactly in the know on wiki policy though, so I'm sure Joe or Chaos has a better idea of what's up.

Edit:

I just gave it a quick cleanup for you, but nice work. I fixed the nobility link and used a template on the reference as well as added it to the Mistborn category.

[Chaos he/him]

Hmmm. This is tricky thing to define what is and isn't a stub. We haven't quite defined explicitly what it is, but mostly, at the moment we just sort of flag it as such when we see it.

I'm trying to think of a working definition. Probably a working definition of a non-stub would be:

1. Reasonably complete or informative: An article that contains most necessary information on the subject.

2. Subheadings: The article at hand has at least two subheadings (ie, any article that is a wall of text is a stub).

I think both conditions go hand-in-hand: if your article doesn't have enough subheadings, you probably didn't delve into the subject deep enough, right?

In the case of the Human article, by this definition (which, mind you, I totally made up right now), it needs a second subheading. It just needs more info about his role in Mistborn 3.

EDIT: By the way, this is a great article. Thank you sooo much for editing

Edited May 3, 2012 by Chaos

[Joe ST he/him]

A rough guide (rule of thumb) would be anything less than 1 page long (no scrollbar) is a stub.

[RenegadeShroom]

Hey, no worries, I'm glad to do it. And cheers for the quick responses and the cleanup of my edits. XD I'll post the MB3 additions as soon as I can, I've got them mostly typed up, although I'm not sure that I've got everything I can on Human. I pretty much just need to find out if there were anymore scenes with him after he went crazy and tried to create another koloss.

Edited May 3, 2012 by InsurrectionistFungus

[Windrunner he/him]

I'm not sure if he and Vin had any scenes together after this point but he did lead the koloss through the Homeland to the Trustwarren and discovered that the Trust was empty of atium. So he presumably survived the Ascension and was changed into a true-breeding koloss by Sazed. I hope that helps.