Category talk:Article stubs

Stubs

Simple question: What constitutes a stub? Here are two opinions:

A page that is missing information under a major heading.

A page that is missing under most headings.

I tend to believe it should be the second one (as the most of our current stub pages are like this). I'm not opposed to the first idea, the only problem is our stubs category covers 12% of all our pages, if we were to add all pages missing a heading (such as battle story) the stub category would become very large. Sylvanelite 00:14, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

I agree with that. The first would be grounds for a stub if it is missing info under several headings. If all we have is info on models, but nothing on media or battle story, I would still call it a stub. It's usually pretty easy to see a stub just based on length anyway.Azimuth727 00:26, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

Are all stubs supposed to have the disclaimer saying it is a stub? In the stub category, Mt. Iselina is listed as a stub yet does not have the disclaimer. --Levells 20:24, July 17, 2010 (UTC)

All stubs automatically get the stub disclaimer if they have the stub tag in them. I think that page was peculiar because Leon35 didn't add the stub tag, instead he added it to the category manually. I don't know why he would do this, yeah, it's wrong. Sylvanelite 09:03, July 20, 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, I'll check it out. Either the stub was broken, or the catogory somehow remained. (Zoids Fanatic 20:26, July 17, 2010 (UTC))

Battle Story, Releases & Media

I've noticed this with several of the articles in the stub catagory- the battle story is plain missing, the seperate releases are headings and in the media section is lacking.

Most of the Zoids here have some sort of battle story bit (be it from prints or the sides of the boxes) but is it really necessary to have an overveiw section and a battle story apearance for lesser known Zoids? That goes for the fusor Zoids too. Like Killer Spiner, I have a pamphlet showing it with a tid-bit of battle story (in Japanese) but it's only two lines worth and translated I'm sure the info isn't that valueable as a section. As part of the overview however, it could be more interesting.

Also, less famous Zoids that have multiple releases can be sort of combined too. For example, Brave Jaguar, there's two empty sections under the Models part. The two sections could be combined sorta like this "Brave Jaguar made its debut as the first Neo Blox Zoid molded in blue, gold, snow white and silver featuring a gold pilot. Later it was re-issued in the Brave Jaguar set with a slight channge of color hue and the addition of CB-01 Metal Hopper. Notably, the box Brave Jaguar Set had a handle, a feture shared with King Gojulas's box. Later the Zoid was a part of the Bite Griffon set with a new, green canopy. Brave Jaguar was also seen in black with white armor in the Valkyrie Ceasar set."

Oh, and a lot of Zoids need thier Hasbro action figure, keychain, art statue, rubber figure, kids meal toy and Gashapon releases mentioned too.

Lastly the media stuff, should we use the info from the trading cards and video games? I.E. the little Legacy sentences from the Zoid's Database, what VS characters say about the Zoids and the bits of information on some of the trading cards.SharkWings 03:53, July 27, 2010 (UTC)