Talk:Swing Riots

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[edit] Swing Riots

Can you elaborate why the Swing Riots article was flagged as a stub? Regards Oldfarm 12:34, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

To be very honest with you: I can't explain why Swing Riots is considered a stub. As a participant in the WikiProject Stub sorting, I regularly move articles from Category:Stubs to relevant stub categories. Because I come across so many articles, I don't really have the time to assess the stub tags as such. I only remove stub tags when it's very obvious that the article is not a stub. In other cases, I rely on other users. If they consider an article a stub, and it's not obvious that it's not a stub, I simply follow their judgement. In the case of Swing Riots, User:Talrias was the first to add the stub tag, which was swiftly removed by User:Sn0wflake. That was reverted by Talrias the next day. About 15 minutes after that revert, I came across the article, via Category:Stubs. I simply changed the stub tag to the appropriate tag, which was {{UK-hist-stub}}. Now that I've read the article, I think the {{expansion}} tag is a bit more appropriate than the {{stub}} tag. Aecis ^praatpaal 23:18, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Sure, a stub is basically a brief description of the event, at most a few paragraphs long. It typically doesn't have any sections (such as analysis of why the event happened, build up to the event, and consequences). Swing Riots is a long stub, but it by no means could be considered a full article. Talrias (t | e | c) 14:41, 7 November 2005 (UTC)