Slider:Stub and disambiguation message example

Between the lines it is shown how the stub, substub and disambiguation messages look, depending on your CSS settings for #stub, #substub and #disambig (in the class boilerplate and the html element div):

Template:Stub with the contents

<div class="boilerplate metadata" id="stub" align=left> ''This article is a [[Wikipedia:Perfect stub article|stub]]. You can [[Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub|help]] by [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=edit}} adding to it].'' </div> [[Category:Stub]]

shows up as

This article is a stub. You can help by adding to it.

Template:Substub with the contents

<div class="boilerplate metadata" id="stub"><table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: transparent;"><tr><td>[[Image:Wiki_letter_w.png|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 [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=edit}} expanding it].''</td></tr></table></div> [[Category:Substubs]]

shows up as

This article is a substub, the first step on the way to becoming a full article. You can help by expanding it.

Template:Disambig with the contents

<div class="notice metadata" id="disambig">''This is a [[Wikipedia:disambiguation|disambiguation]] page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.''</div>[[Category:Disambiguation]]

shows up as

This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.

Use e.g.

#stub { display: none; }

#stub { font-size: 60%; color: #808080; }

in your CSS (either one in page User:username/skin.css or a local page specified in your browser).

When setting a color, the colors of links may be as usual, depending on priority settings.

If you do not need to read the message, a very small font size, like 10%, still allows you to

see that there is a message;
see the link titles in the hover box and the link targets in the status bar, and use the links;
copy the text.

If you set the color of the text to the background color, you still see the links (if the setting for their color has a higher priority), use the links and copy the text, and still read the full text by selecting it.

If the links are also in the background color, you can also still use the links, copy the text, and read the text by selecting it.

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Slider:Stub and disambiguation message example

Stub categories

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