# Any suggestions on best ways to flag a topic as incomplete? **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Building\ **Created:** [2014年九月29日 18:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-suggestions-on-best-ways-to-flag-a-topic-as-incomplete/20601 "2014-09-29T18:50:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\ **Post date:** [2014年九月29日 18:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-suggestions-on-best-ways-to-flag-a-topic-as-incomplete/20601/1 "2014-09-29T18:50:05Z")
We are using our discourse also as a wiki for collaboratively sharing information. I would like to be able to publicly flag a topic as incomplete - a work in progress - so everyone can see the topics that need attention and contribute to them. Something akin to the wikipedia “stub”. I wonder if others have already solved this problem or if there is a plugin to handle this use case. Otherwise the long handed route is to add a prefix to titles or a keyword in the body of the message that can be searched. Anyone have better ideas? > **[Wikipedia:Stub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Stub)** > > A stub is an article that is deemed too short and incomplete to provide in-depth encyclopedic coverage of a subject. Of all the Wikipedia articles, 32.2% are currently stubs, approximately 2,300,000 articles as of May 2026. > This page provides a general guide for dealing with stubs: the first section, Basic information, contains information that is recommended for most users; and the second section, Creating stub types, contains more specialized material. > Existing stub categories can be found ... ---
**Author:** ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)\ **Post date:** [2014年九月29日 18:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-suggestions-on-best-ways-to-flag-a-topic-as-incomplete/20601/2 "2014-09-29T18:53:38Z")
Sounds like your current approach is pretty good. You could also try using categories to your advantage or employing the Tagger plugin. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [2018年八月9日 06:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-suggestions-on-best-ways-to-flag-a-topic-as-incomplete/20601/3 "2018-08-09T06:55:56Z")
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\ **Post date:** [2018年八月9日 08:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-suggestions-on-best-ways-to-flag-a-topic-as-incomplete/20601/4 "2018-08-09T08:06:39Z")
Might as well close the loop here @tobiaseigen what ended up happening here? ---
**Author:** ![Stranik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stranik/32/85638_2.png) [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)\ **Post date:** [2018年八月9日 10:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-suggestions-on-best-ways-to-flag-a-topic-as-incomplete/20601/5 "2018-08-09T10:34:59Z")
This is actually a good idea, perhaps for special cases,for a small number of sites that use a more “strict” form . We can of course manually through editing to place any text, highlight it in any special way. Or try to implement this idea with an insert. We can manually insert a link on a previously created topic, where we will describe all of it. Lots of implementation. ---
**Author:** ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\ **Post date:** [2018年八月9日 15:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-suggestions-on-best-ways-to-flag-a-topic-as-incomplete/20601/6 "2018-08-09T15:17:16Z")
> [@sam](#): > > what ended up happening here? Nothing happened, as far as I know. I’d still like to have the ability to indicate which topics are wiki “stubs” that are a work in progress and shouldn’t be relied on yet/need work. We have been building up a knowledge base on our discourse, with a category and sub-categories that are all set to create wiki topics by default. We also have a kb admin tag that contains tags that can only be used if kb is also used. Among those is a draft tag that we use to keep an eye on topics that need work. @angus and I have been talking about creating a knowledge base plugin. Maybe this could be included as a feature of that plugin? ---
**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\ **Post date:** [2018年八月9日 23:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-suggestions-on-best-ways-to-flag-a-topic-as-incomplete/20601/7 "2018-08-09T23:07:41Z")
What about tagging the work in progress with a stub tag? A trivial plugin could apply the tag automatically to short topics