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All About All:Shortpages

These are the shortest pages in the English Wikipedia as of September 9, 2005. Your help is needed to fix various problems that cause them to end up here.

Listing criteria

Pages excluded from the current run:

• Pages with redirect syntax
• Pages outside the Article, Portal, Wikipedia, and Help namespaces.
• Pages with "{{copyvio"
• Pages with {{rfd}}
• Pages with {{deletedpage}} or {{deletedarticle}}
• Pages with {{disambig}}

Pages that used to be excluded:

• Disambiguation pages
• Functional redirects. Any redirects showing up below are in need of repair.
• Pages with {{copyvio}} or {{copyvio1}}
• Topics with a larger number of short pages:
  • /Mythology/
  • /Lists of people by name/

How to deal with pages on this list

The articles listed here should be either expanded, deleted, or turned into a redirect to another article. Unless you are going to write a complete article from scratch, you will also need to make sure the article is properly tagged for attention from other editors. See Wikipedia:Deletion policy for a chart that shows what kind of text falls into what category, and what tag to add. See WP:VFD for more complete instructions on how to nominate a page for deletion. You may also want to check if the page meets the Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion.

• Links displayed in red are for articles that have already been deleted. Please remove any you happen to see from this list.
• Short lists should be expanded, of course. All incomplete lists should be tagged as such. See Wikipedia:Incomplete lists for tags and advice.

Stubs

Stubs are listed separately, for your convenience. If you find an article tagged with {{stub}}, please change it to the appropriate topic-specific one from Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types. Because the stubs listed here are so short, they are in the most need of attention. Help expand them! For advice, see Wikipedia:Guide to improving articles. You may also wish to see Wikipedia:Stub or Wikipedia:Article size for advice.

When fixed

After you've given an article some attention (hopefully making it long enough not to get re-listed here on the next run), please remove its listing from this page. This will help prevent duplication of effort.

How to update

See /How to update

Suggested improvements

• Show how many articles link to each of these to give some indication of how worthwhile it is expanding them. - TB 09:36, Jun 9, 2004 (UTC)

Related lists

• /Mythology/
• /Lists of people by name/
• /Short pages1/ - first 500 articles from Special:Shortpages
• /Short pages2/ - second 500 articles from Special:Shortpages
• /Short pages3/ - third 500 articles from Special:Shortpages
• /Short pages4/ - fourth 500 articles from Special:Shortpages

List (no stubs)

(Stubs are listed separately, below.)

List (pages with text "stub}}")