Help:Stub Removal

The templates used to create the genus and species pages contain Stub notices and a few categories that signify what remains to be done before the Stub can be removed.

Removing Categories
When you are in edit mode for a genus page marked with a stub you will see the following categories included at the very bottom of the editable portion of the page:

Each of these categories should be removed once the appropriate content has been placed on the page, as explained below. To remove a category simply delete the text and the accompanying double set of nested brackets.

Overview
The overview refers to the first paragraph of text that is found at the top of the page, above the Table of Contents. A description of what this covers is found at the Genus Page Headings page (the first paragraph) and this Species Page Headings page (as stated in the third paragraph from the top).

Once this overview is added to the page this category should be removed.

Images
In this images context refers to a set of automontage images that are placed in the taxabox. An example is given on the Species Page Headings page (as stated in the second paragraph from the top).

Once this set of images is added to the page this category should be removed but also be aware of the following:

If there are no automontage images available for a species, the Needs Images category should be removed and this new category added to the list:

Body Text
This refers to the text that is found between the Overview and the end of the editable portion of the page. This is a judgment call that depends upon a variety of factors, such as: is the species only known from types, is all the literature relevant to this species cited and summarized (provided there is not a huge number of papers), are the contributions in this section only a small part of what might be known about this species, etc.

Once this body of text is added to the page this category should be removed but also be aware of the following:

If the species is only known from types and all of the information from those specimens has been included on the page, the Body Text category should be removed and this new category added to the list:

If there have been more than the types collected but little is know about the biology of the species, the Body Text category should be removed and this new category added to the list:

Removing the STUB
Here is the Stub notice as it appears on a page:

In edit mode the Stub is a simple combination of nested curly brackets, text and a semicolon:

Once all three of the categories mentioned in the text above (need overview, need images and need body text) are removed from a page the Stub notice should be removed too. The Stub is taken out by removing the Stub reference, including the curly brackets, in edit mode and then saving the changes.