Wikipedia:Permastub

Most trees will eventually grow from saplings into large trees. But bonsai trees, like this 400-year-old Japanese white pine, will always stay tiny.

A permastub is an article that is currently a stub and has no reasonable prospect for expansion. There can be many reasons for this. These include:

  • The article is a finished article, in no need of improvement.
  • There is little verifiable information to be found on the subject.
  • The page barely passes notability requirements such as GNG, as a result of either lack of sources or notability in general.
  • All or most aspects of the subject are already covered in other articles.
  • There is not much to say about the subject.
  • The article is about a subject that was briefly notable, but no longer receives any coverage.
  • The subject is about or is notable for a single event, after which there will never likely be any future coverage.

It is important to note that permastubs are articles that either cannot be expanded or have little potential. A stub – even a stub on what you see as a trivial topic – is not a permastub if there is verifiable and encyclopedic information that can be added to it. The importance of a topic is not a factor in how much can be written about it – we have featured articles on things that are obscure and strange.