Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Historical archive/Substub (section)

==Historical==

In the past, these substubs were marked with the <nowiki>{{</nowiki>substub}} template. Since this collided with the general methods of stub sorting and the number of articles marked as substubs (justified as well as erroneous) got more and more out of hand, the use of that template was deprecated, and in the end the template and associated category were deleted in May 2005 (see [[Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/Deleted/May 2005#Template:Substub]] and [[Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 May 10#Category:Substubs]]). For the present methods of dealing with substubs, see one of the options at [[#How to fix a substub]].

Before its deletion, the template message was:
<div class="boilerplate metadata" id="stub"><table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: transparent;"><tr><td>[[Image:Wiki letter w.svg|25px| ]]</td> <td>''This article is a [[Wikipedia:Substub|substub]], the first step on the way to becoming a [[Wikipedia:Featured article|full article]]. You can [[Wikipedia:Tutorial|help]] by [{{fullurl:FULLPAGENAME|action=edit}} expanding it].''</td></tr></table></div>