I made a run through the stubs today. In doing so it became obvious me that the vast majority of stubs are either armour pages or locations, with weapons coming in a distant third.
I've never done much with locations pages, and don't have any plans to start now.
I've been working on armour pages though, and the sheer number of them that are marked as stubs (with likely many more not marked but still needing lots of work) got me to thinking about the way I've been filling in armour pages, and the fact that it's not very speedy.
So far I've been trying to do everything in one pass, which takes a long time. I recall from enemies pages that it went a lot faster to do the infoboxes and drops in separate passes.
So I think I'm gonna adopt that approach to the armour pages. Since I'm guessing that sources of an armour piece are more interesting to readers than what the armour looks like, I'm gonna focus on sources first and finishing off infoboxes and adding the Appearance section later on.
In terms of marking pages as stubs, my current thinking is that if an armour page has sources listed, it's not a stub. Category:Incomplete is the way I plan to mark pages which are complete enough to not be stubs, but which are still lacking some sections (Appearance for example) or information.
Another advantage of not messing with the Appearance section now is that it's easier for me to jump around. Adding the Appearance section sort of makes me work on armour in roughly the order it appears in the game, in order to get the image files named correctly. I think starting on the end-game armours instead would be more useful for readers of the wiki.
I know I don't need anyone's approval for how and what I choose to work on. I also know that sometimes folks ask "why?" when other editors shift working methods. So consider this my pre-answer to that not-yet-asked question.