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April 8

Official List of Fields of Study Recognized by Wikipedia

If you take a look at the page below, you'll see that there are two stub notifications. One for statistics, and one for sociology. I was wondering what subjects can be marked this way? Does Wikipedia have a list (official or unofficial) of what various fields of study are considered major enough to be marked at the bottom of an article?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_reconstruction 68.47.79.3 (talk) 01:18, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The stub categories (those for which we have stub templates) are of many kinds. We have People stubs (e,g. the Irish business biography stubs), Geography stubs (e.g. the Tuvalu geography stubs), Transport stubs (e.g. the Category:Diesel locomotive stubs), ..., and also Science stubs (e.g. the Antihypertensive agent stubs). For some science stubs, the topic is not an object of study but a field of study (e.g. the Veterinary medicine stubs). You can find a full list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types.

There being a stub type for some field of study does not in any way constitute a form of recognition for the field itself. It merely signals that there are enough stubby articles on topics within the field to make it worthwhile to flag them so that editors seeking to improve stubby articles on topics in that field can more easily find them. The words "official" and "recognized" are somewhat inapplicable here; the closest is our concept of "notability". If you want to see if a field of study is currently being recognized as being notable, check if we have an article on that field, not whether there are many stubby articles on topics within the field. --Lambiam 06:42, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Can you use emojis on your signatures?

This is just a general question, I want to know if you are able to use emojis on your signatures on Wikipedia. Can you? Metric Supporter 89 (talk) 23:11, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Are you asking if it's possible, or asking if it's appropriate? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:10, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is technically possible, but the resulting look may be different for different users, depending on the platforms they use. However, gary signatures are distracting and should be avoided. --Lambiam 03:23, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That's hard luck on anybody called Gary, Lambiam! --ColinFine (talk) 11:12, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. I mashed up garish and gaudy 😳. The alternative is hard luck on garish, but group accounts are verboten anyway, so that should not be a real issue. --Lambiam 12:12, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]