k:Can people try to add the entries they post here to the bottom of the main list on the main contest page too in the style given there, for the master list please? It's just it's taking quite a while to do them all myself and judge the articles too! Thanks!
This is the main entry page for the Destubathon. All entries are to be submitted here between 0:00 UTC+0 on 15th October and 23:59 UTC+0 on 27th November. If the page gets too large though we'll find a way to address that as the contest proceeds. Remember before submitting entries that there should be no unsourced claims and that it's readable prose which counts, not overall article kb size, exclude references, infoboxes and tables when measuring and just copy the text on the screen and measure it! I've put up a tool in the Measuring tool section which you can all program in to make it easier to measure on that so look out for it and program it! Remember too that it is whoever wins the most destubs for the most countries who will be crowned the contest winner, but there are larger prizes for other aspects like independent Good Article work too. Best of luck and happy editing!
Geography stubs can be found in Category:Africa geography stubs and sub categories by country. Wildlife (or fauna) stub-lists have been prepared for a number of countries, but for the remainder finding wildlife stubs is a little trickier given that many are found in multiple countries and they aren't stub categorized by country, but there are so many stubs that finding one shouldn't be too difficult. Category:Fauna of Africa by region and Category:Flora of Africa by region subcategories and finding specific African nations from Category:Endemic fauna by country and Category:Endemic flora by country should be a good place to start and find articles. The idea is that you can find any stub and improve it, and then elect one country for it to represent, even if found in a dozen or more countries. As long as the article states that that it is found in that country or categorized as such.
This is a Destubathon, so missing articles in general are not permitted, so as to retain a focus on fleshing out existing entries. However, a number of African countries have very few women bio stubs in relation to men. The amount of women bios is often shockingly low, well under 10%, so it would affect the contest for countries which have less than half a dozen. As a result new minimum 1.5 kb readable prose entries for women biographies and topics will be permitted. No stubs though please, as the goal of this is reducing them overall! You can view a missing list of African women bios here.
If interested in working on women articles for this though, try to work on both destubbing existing articles and creating missing articles if you can, as it is a destubbing contest after all and the goal is to reduce the overall stub count by the end!
If you're not entering the contest or feel like creating some new articles on anything you want other than women bios, those will be permitted on the list at the bottom of the main page, but not on this page and won't count towards the contest credits. But some editors might spot some really notable missing articles and feel like contributing. Try to ensure that no new stubs are created though, as this is a Desubathon after all! Only start class entries over 1.5 kb.
You can check your entries using this tool before submitting here. The article readable prose, excluding sources and lists will have to be strictly minimum 1.5 kb (1500 bytes) to comply with the contest. Stubs expanded and new articles for women must all be minimum that once you've finished the article.
What would make it easier on this is if everybody programs their common.js in their preferences to contain:
Go into your preferences, click on the "Appearances" tab
Where it says "Shared CSS/JavaScript for all skins:", click "custom javascript
Paste the command given above into that and save.
Now approach an article and look in the tools section on the left. You should see "Page size". Click that for each article and you'll quickly get a reading without having to paste text all of the time and look externally.
Look out for where it says, for example: "Prose size (text only): 1684 B (289 words) "readable prose size" ". That's what we're looking for on this, that has to read over 1500 B when finished.
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Algeria stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Desert lark 2781B [8] This one is dubious. When I tried to save it after I had worked on it for half an hour or so, I found it had meanwhile been destubbed by Quetzal1964, so I blended my version in, not wanting to completely waste my effort. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:57, 16 November 2016 (UTC) You can both have it.Y Thanks. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 14:29, 17 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Angola stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Benin stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Benin at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, destubbing by LauraHale. Prose size: 2530 B (391 words) "readable prose size". Start size: Prose size (text only): 1204 B (184 words) "readable prose size". Probably as comprehensive as it gets given they had one athlete. Might be a short potential GA for anyone looking for easy ones. Y
Benin at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, destubbing by LauraHale. Prose size (text only): 1646 B (266 words) "readable prose size". Again, one athlete on the team so this could be a simple GA for some one given the lack of depth required. Y
@Ssriram mt: There's a lot of copied/superflous text. There's a typo on northern throughout. For a region in the southwest you've still talked about the north of the country which isn't really acceptable. Can you try to edit them a bit to remove some of the generic text and write more unique information about each department for each article. ♦ Dr. Blofeld19:03, 25 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Marginally but ideally there there still be more original prose for each article. One contestant complained about another copying text earlier in the contest. I'll pass these was the minimum requirement is 1.5 kb I'd rather it was that with the copied text to a minimum than 3 and largely the same.♦ Dr. Blofeld12:56, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Botswana stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Burkina Faso stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Eye of the Storm (2015 film) From less than 300 to 1555. I don't know if it was a core stub or not. I just improved it. Can someone explain to me which pages get me more "points" this destubathon is confusing for me. GrecoRomanNut 5:08, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
@GrecoRomanNut: It's not a point system but simple article count one. If you want to "win" for Burkina Faso you'd need to produce more articles that the others. Y
Delwende From less than 500 to over 1700. Please verify. -too short at 1081 bytes of readable prose
Dr. Blofeld Haha! I accidentally deleted the award section, along with some other info that had made it verifiable. Anyway, thank you soooooo much for verifying my latest articles, it means alot. GrecoRomanNut (talk) 21:00, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Burundi stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Cameroon stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Synodontis batensoda expanded to 2036 bytes. Currently listed as Nile catfish, I can't find any reference that calls it that common name, I've requested a page move to the scientific name over the redirect.Y You sure you don't want to list this for Niger Neil916, that hasn't an entry yet :-)♦ Dr. Blofeld10:14, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Afo-A-Kom, was long enough before, but needed inline references, copy-editing and clean-up. @Jeff the quiet: needs a lot of citations on that one♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:12, 19 November 2016 (UTC) Dr, I don't have the source that those bits may have come from, so I'll never quite get it up to your destub threshold. I'll add the article on Misaje below in place of Afo-A-Kom on your main list. Jeff the quiet (talk) 05:38, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Cape Verde stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
@Dthomsen8: Facts and figures all need sourcing and verifying, no unsourced claims on this. Refs 2 and 6 need formatting. Needs a little more and improvement in sourcing.♦ Dr. Blofeld09:34, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Barolo shearwater destubbed to 2021 B (310 words) "readable prose size" was 2021 B (310 words) "readable prose size" but not referenced properly and still marked as a stub
Glenn Pires[50] 2026 to 2770 characters (was previously completely uncited (and a BLP!), and pretty much a copyvio. Re-wrote the entire thing and added cites, plus a minor expansion) (core)Y
Finacon I know this is completely the bare minimum, but I am behind schedule. So please verify this and I will definitely add more prose. I am just trying to destub as many articles as possible, then go back and make them perfect. GrecoRomanNut (talk) 04:48, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Central African Republic stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Chad stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Comoros stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Republic of the Congo stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Djibouti stubs and sub categories and find one independently. If tackling an article on the core list, remember to embolden the article here and state "core stub". List your "destubbed" articles under your user name in a subsection below. If you can, try to give a diff of the article expansion work you've done and final readable prose count using the measuring tool. If it's a new article on a woman, state the final readable prose count, as entries all have to be over 1.5kb (1500 characters) to comply with the contest.
