On 11/30/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Something like (off the top of my head):
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is ... [one-sentence definition]. It is ...
Presumably you mean {{PAGENAME}} will be substituted with the actual name by the time the user sees it. I would suggest using <!-- --> rather than [ ] though. So, they would see something like:
'''Pokemon fan club''' is ... <!-- one-sentence definition -->
==More detail==
Ever seen one of these? I say leave it out. A stub with no sections is plenty for a first go. Maybe just add:
<!-- Add more detail here -->
==References==
[List the sources you used in writing this article]
Not ==Sources== ?
==External links==
Not ==Further reading== ?
This shows people how to give us the useful content for a good stub article without having to know all about editing wikitext and lovely formatting.
You missed two things: Categories and stub templates.
{{stub}} <!-- Go to [[....]] and find a more precise stub template if you can -->
[[Category:Uncategorized]] <!-- Go to [[...]] and find a couple of categories that describe your article. -->
(I would try and make these two bits valid Wikicode at least, even if the user hasn't set them up).
Steve