Project:Creating a Stub

Ahoy!

In the interest of making sure stubbed articles are about identifiable subjects, I just wanted to note some things that should be in each article. It would be very imprudent to make any rules or anything yet, so that's not my intention. My main concern is making sure that the topics are easily identifiable to other editors and able to be found without using a search engine at the time they're created.

If you're creating a stub to an item on the archive:

 * Include a IAItem link to the item somewhere in the article.
 * Include a basic description of the item, possibly copy/pasted from the item's description or About tab.
 * The title of the article will often be the name of the item. If it's not, you should probably include the name of the item in the article.
 * If it's a collection, please include one of these categories at the bottom:
 * Category:Collections of texts
 * Category:Collections of audio
 * Category:Collections of movies
 * Category:Collections of data
 * Category:Collections of software
 * Category:Collections of image
 * Category:Collections of web


 * If it's an individual item or about a kind of item, but not a collection, please include one of these categories at the bottom:
 * Category:Texts
 * Category:Audio
 * Category:Movies
 * Category:Data
 * Category:Software
 * Category:Image
 * Category:Web

If you're creating a stub for an Internet Archive project:

 * Same general idea for an item applies: please provide a direct link to what you're talking about, if it exists.
 * I've been using two headings for linking out. For me, "External links" is external links to places to find the project online, and "Articles" is links to articles about that thing. Ideally, links in "Articles" would be converted into  tags at some point in the future, whereas "External links" would remain forever regardless.
 * Please include Category:Internet Archive projects at the bottom.