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? 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:São Tomé and Príncipe 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.
Batepá massacre[18]Y I removed two unsourced claims and the stub/tags, otherwise fine, just remember to source every paragraph endeing and remove the tags! Excellent article choice!
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Senegal 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.
@Matt294069: It's readable prose which counts, not overall byte count including tables and refs etc. The readable prose has to be over 1.5kb. It's currently 904 and the history is entirely unsourced. Remember no unsourced claims on this! ♦ Dr. Blofeld07:22, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Seychelles 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:Sierra Leone 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.
Bagla Hills (912->2185, mainly here). Not 100% sure this is out of the stub category (size isn't everything), so I haven't removed the stub tag or upgraded the project parameter.Y
Henry M. Joko-Smart (core stub, 1325->1711), sourcing, removing unsourced claims, a correction, etc.Y
Kuranko people technically already not a stub as over 1500, so I expanded slightly from 3628 to 4486 bytes, added some refs, and changed talk page class to "start". [55]
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Freetown destubbed from 943 to 1621 bytes [57] Just two cites needed.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:16, 6 November 2016 (UTC) @Dr. Blofeld: I had to remove the territory sentence as I can't find a cite for it; I just assumed that as the area of the diocese is greater than the area of the western area! The other fact is now cited. Just squeaks in at 1507 bytes still, so not back to a stub! — Amakuru (talk) 23:31, 6 November 2016 (UTC)Y[reply]
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Somalia 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.
2011 Mogadishu bombing I didn't really do much to this as IMO it was a mislabeled start article. Gave it a quick read through, dab checked and added four citations to a section without cites, and a few word changes. Happy not to receive credit, but wanted it off the list. FruitMonkey (talk) 09:59, 16 October 2016 (UTC) Y@FruitMonkey: That's well within the rules, there will be entries wrongly classed as stubs, but a little cleanup and removing tags then is a positive thing so accepted! Good job.♦ Dr. Blofeld10:04, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:South Africa 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.
Jonathan Ntutu +5,000ish @FruitMonkey: Looks good! but can you source "Two years later Ntutu sight was deemed to have deteriorated and he was reclassified as a T12 classification athlete. This allowed him to enter his first African Games, as traditionally the T13 sprint was not contested. Held in Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo, Ntutu entered the 2015 African Games competing in the T12 200 metre sprint. He took gold, finishing ahead of countryman and fellow ex-Athlone School pupil Hilton Langenhoven."♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:05, 15 October 2016 (UTC) @Dr. Blofeld: Done. FruitMonkey (talk) 16:01, 15 October 2016 (UTC)Y[reply]
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:South Sudan 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.
Catholic University of South Sudan - A Catholic institution in South Sudan, over 2000 prose characters, and also added more sources. View the before and after results for more information. Y
Jubek State - Important State in South Sudan, over 1600 prose characters, added more sources. View the before and after for comparison. Y
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Sudan 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:Swaziland 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.
House of Assembly of Swaziland (core stub, 1222->1786), mostly finding references Y@Clarityfiend: *mportant articles. I tweaked for a few unsourced claims, which might be readded if sourced. Some sources have dates and others don't, can you make that consistent? Ping me once addressed. Cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:12, 1 November 2016 (UTC) @Dr. Blofeld: Most of the sources don't specify dates. The only way to make it consistent would be to remove one date, which seems counterproductive. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:33, 1 November 2016 (UTC) OK, no worries.♦ Dr. Blofeld11:25, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Tanzania 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.
baglafecht weaver destubbed from 447B to 1723B and 282 words of readable prose. Quetzal1964 12:43, 15 October 2016 (UTC) Y OK, though habits and habitat might be merged or fleshed a bit as they look a bit short!
zanj sun squirrel destubbed to 1723 B (292 words) "readable prose size"zanj sun squirrel Y
Pemba scops owl destubbed to 2349 B (421 words) "readable prose size"Y
Usambara eagle-owl destubbed to 1566 B (268 words) "readable prose size"Y
forest batis destubbed to 2191 B (373 words) "readable prose size" Y
dark batis was already c. 1910 B (333 words) "readable prose size" and marked as start but did not have inline citations Y
Iringa Region - top-importance stub - 944B to 3443 B (588 words) [126]@Ask80: Can you reformat the "Socio Economic profile notes" to inline citations all bunching to the "Iringa region socio-economic profile, 20 source. I don't think you need to have that separate in the references, and it would look better neatly done all in just one references section rather than that and notes.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:42, 19 October 2016 (UTC) @Dr. Blofeld: Is it better now - I was not entirely sure what you meant above Ask80 (talk) 20:21, 19 October 2016 (UTC) It's OK now!Y[reply]
Hawa Ghasia - destubbed from 767 B (120 words) to 1827 B (289 words). [128]Y
Penina Muhando - destubbed from 396 B (69 words) to 2372 B (389 words) - [129]Y
Angellah Kairuki - destubbed from 2123 B (353 words) to 2669 B (438 words) (Added citations. Also, found that a large section was copied from another website) [130]Y
@Sputink: For the contest it's stub expansion and GA work only, but you're welcome to add new start class articles to the overall work done on the main page here. I'll move the article there and it will join the challenge at the end of the contest with the others, thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld18:55, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
April Olrich new woman bio, 2315B readable prose (English actress/dancer born in Zanzibar)(also my 40th entry for the Destubathon) -Excellent achievement Penny Richards, I hope Kathleen knows how productive this contest and you've been!!♦ Dr. Blofeld13:47, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Select a core or women stub to "destub" from here or browse Category:Togo 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:Tunisia 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.
A1 motorway (Tunisia)destubbed with "readable prose size" expanded from 140b to 1763b with new history section, sources, wikilinks, and photos
@Econterms: Good effort! But History and Distances, rest areas, and exits sections will need fully sourcing, and there's a paragraph in the lede unsourced which isn't found in the main body. For this there will need to be nothing unsourced, so in some cases deleting material or finding something else to replace it, even if the info is valid may be necessary! See if you can sort that and I'll approve it asap!♦ Dr. Blofeld07:10, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
