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" id="stub">
''This article is a stub. You can help [[Ireland]] [[Ireland Information Guide | Information Guide]] by clicking on the "edit" tab above, and expanding it. Go to the home page of [[Ireland Information Guide]] for more details on "how to edit a page".
</div>
shows up as:
This article is a stub. You can help Ireland Information Guide by clicking on the "edit" tab above, and expanding it. Go to the home page of Ireland Information Guide for more details on "how to edit a page".
Template:Substub with the contents <div class="boilerplate" id="substub"> ''This article is a [[Wikipedia:Substub|substub]], the first step on the way to becoming a [[Wikipedia:Your first article|full article]]. You can '''[[Wikipedia:Tutorial|help]]''' Wikipedia by '''[{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=edit}} expanding it]'''.'' </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 Wikipedia by expanding it (http://www.irelandinformationguide.com/Ireland_Information_Guide:Stub_and_disambiguation_message_example?action=edit).
Template:Disambig with the contents
<font class="boilerplate" id="disambig">''This is a [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation|disambiguation]] page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.''</font>[[Category:Disambiguation]]
shows up as:
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
Use e.g.
#stub { display: none; }
or
#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:
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.
See also m:User Styles, web colors.
As this page also demonstrates, even if you do not have the message displayed, you can still see the category indication (currently substub and disambiguation).