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This is an archive of discussions from Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals for the month of October 2007. Please move completed October discussions to this page as they occur, add discussion headers to each proposal showing the result, and leave incomplete discussions on the Proposals page. After October, the remainder of the discussions will be moved to this page, whether stub types have been created or not.

Those who create a stub template/cat should be responsible for moving the discussion here and listing the stub type in the archive summary.

Stub proposers please note: Items tagged as "nocreate" or "no consensus" are welcome for re-proposal if and when circumstances are auspicious.

Category:Schleswig-Holstein geography stubs by district

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The result of the debate was create.
1260 articles. 11 kreise. While I don't want to truncate any possible fascinating, full and frank discussion, this looks like it'll be pretty straightforward. Alai 05:18, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

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Madeline Moore

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The result of the debate was do not create.
I propose a stub on the writer Madeline Moore.

Author Felix Baron/Michael Crawley would like to add an autobiographical stub.

You didn't read the instructions did you? The bit that says "If you wish to propose the creation of a stub ARTICLE you've come to the wrong place." BTW, given your user name, (the initial comment was by User:Madeline Moore) I suspect there may be a conflict of interest. Grutness...wha? 22:32, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
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Computer Books

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How about a subcategory of Category:Science book stubs for technical books about computing? There is already Category:Mathematics literature stubs and many of the "science books" are computer books. At the very least, this would help people find non-computer science book stubs. — The Storm Surfer 20:29, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

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{{1900s-novel-stub}}/Category:1900s novel stubs

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{{1910s-novel-stub}}/Category:1910s novel stubs

This pair of templates have long been an anomaly in the sequence of stub categories between that for the Category:19th century novel stubs and the decade based set that run from Category:1920s novel stubs to Category:2000s novel stubs. Currently each load Category:Novel stubs which is still overpopulated and includes many articles that need further sorting. This process is hampered by repeatedly falling over articles that would naturally sort to these categories is approved. Each of these now appear to have around 50 articles and seem to grow rather than reduce over time. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 08:32, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

  • if "whatlinkshere" is any judge, there are 68 articles with the 1910 template, so that's a definite speedy support. There are 56 with the 1900 one - enough for a non-speedy support, though another four stubs would be nice :) Grutness...wha? 09:26, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
I have built both of these as the article count has grown - so I am treating this a both supported. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 13:29, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
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{{Nigeria-sport-bio-stub}} / Category:Nigerian sportspeople stubs

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While not 100% sure of the figures, I know there are nearly 20 basketball biography stubs and a good number of boxing-bios as well. The parent category Category:Nigerian people stubs, is definite due for another split and this is a good place to begin.--Thomas.macmillan 06:16, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

  • No objection to an upmerged template, but oppose a category until there's evidence for numerical viability (I count around 44, btw), or indeed need (the parent's barely over one listings page, after all). Alai 20:03, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Created upmerged template, and combined with other templates, there is a total of 57. We can either wait for it to rise or just go ahead and create it, which I think is the better option.--Thomas.macmillan 03:43, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
I think I can refrain from hauling it off to SFD for the want of three articles. :) Alai 05:41, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Support category as we already have football and athletics subcats so 57 articles and 2 subcats I think is enough for a category. Waacstats 07:48, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Oh, I'd missed the two subcats, sorry. I'd have supported in the first instance had I cottoned on. Alai 08:07, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
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Baseball splits

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Propose {{Cuba-baseball-bio-stub}} as well as {{DominicanRepublic-baseball-bio-stub}} along with the appropriate categories. Cuba is an obvious example, as there are 136 articles in Category:Cuban baseball players and over 330 articles Category:Cuban people stubs. A Category:Cuban sportspeople stubs would probably be useful too, considering how many stubs there actually are (Athletics has already been broken down). The Dominican Republic, while only having 112 articles in Category:People of the Dominican Republic stubs, has over 280 articles in Category:Dominican Republic baseball players.--Thomas.macmillan 19:31, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

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Two geo-speedies

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The result of the debate was create.
Two more countries (well, one country and one country-like entity) have reached the 60-stub level, so I'd like to speedy:

Grutness...wha? 13:20, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

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3 Speedy cats?

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The result of the debate was create.
Propose speedy creation of the following categories as the corresponding templates have over 60 articles each.

Waacstats 09:52, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

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AMSR

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The result of the debate was misplaced request.
Eslobl 19:23, 17 October 2007 (UTC) Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) for Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) Instrument on Aqua, a NASA afternoon satellite, and part of 'A-train' For details see http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/AMSR --Eslobl 19:23, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

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Madeira Islands geography stubs

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The result of the debate was create.
{{Madeira-geo-stub}} now has 60 articles. Note cat name is to parallel Category:Madeira Islands, "Madeira" being considered on WP to relate to the main island of the chain. Grutness...wha? 23:35, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

See previous discussion for possible naming. Support. Her Pegship (tis herself) 23:55, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Yeah - it went through CfD for discussion on its name. Actually, I see that Category:Madeira islands is a subcat of Category:Autonomous Region of Madeira, so that would be a better permcat (making this the fairly cumbersome, but Wikipedially correct Category:Autonomous Region of Madeira geography stubs). Grutness...wha? 00:11, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
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Split of airports

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there are over 100 articles in NorthAm-airport-stubs also in Airports in Mexico so I propose

Waacstats 09:37, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

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Another speediable geo-stub category

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After a half-hour or so of stub creation, Mauritius is now up to the point of having enouygh geo-stubs for its own category. Therefore, I'd like to propose the speediable Category:Mauritius geography stubs. Grutness...wha? 03:42, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

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Split of Cat:Mosque stubs

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The result of the debate was create templates by country, cats as needed.
I scanned Category:Mosque stubs to see if there were enough articles for a template:africa-mosque-stub - there weren't (only 22), but I did get well over 60 Malaysian ones. So, I propose template:Malaysia-mosque-stub and the accompanying category. The category would be a subcat of Category:Malaysia stubs, Category:Mosque stubs, and Category:Asian building and structure stubs.

Alternately, a template:Asia-mosque-stub could work (there were a good deal of Iranian mosque stubs, and some Bengali and Indian ones too). Picaroon (t) 22:30, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

It certainly seems reasonable to split this, and Malaysia certainly sounds viable - IIRC, there are quite a large number of Iranian ones, too, though perhaps a more generic MEast-mosque-stub is a better idea. Grutness...wha? 00:03, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Again, a regional template seems more trouble than it's worth in the long run, and in this case I have my doubts about the utility of that particular regional category. Support templates for any <country>-mosque-stub you care to name, and categories as needed. Alai 03:58, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
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Split of Category:Sports venue stubs

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The result of the debate was create.
I propose the following splits

as well as the following to complete the continintal split

both would appear numerically viable but having gone through sports venue stubs I forgot to kep count and catscan doesn't give up to date figures. I believe the following countries would be worth having templates for Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico

Two more countries to add to the mix
Waacstats 14:19, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
The "China-" one I would instead scope (and name) as "PRC-", given the past 'issues' with the scoping of "China". (It's a bit like "Ireland-", really, just with more edit-warring.) As usual, I'd prefer as many upmerged by-country templates as people have the patience to create, and no regional templates unless they run out of same, but it's not a deal-breaker by any means. Oh, so that's a support, and I suspect these are speediable. Alai 19:00, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
That's PRChina-, not PRC-, Alai. The PRC-x-stub types were changed over not that long ago. Grutness...wha? 00:22, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
The B&S template is at {{PRC-struct-stub}}, not at {{PRChina-struct-stub}}, unless my eyes (and WP's edit and deletion histories) deceive me. If someone wants to make a redirect-preserving move in line with the -geo-stub, I'd have no objection. Let's just avoid more of the "China" scoping issues, though. Alai 18:10, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
Rouge admin that I am, that's no sooner said than done :). That one must've got missed out when the geo, bio, politician, etc stub types got moved recently. I note, somewhat worryingly, though, that we have a {{China-struct-stub}} redirect to it used on about a dozen articles - presumably dating to the "Instantnood Wars". That probably needs sfd'ing. Grutness...wha? 23:38, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
While I'm on a counter-pedanting roll, when you say that "one got missed", I think perhaps you mean that "only the -geo- was nominated": see Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2007/September/1. Others are still at {{China-politician-stub}}, {{PRC-airport-stub}}, etc. The China- redirects-from-move where never deleted, at the time of the original move (Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2007/March/2), and now that the original scoping brouhaha's long since died down (touch wood), I'm not at all sure that deleting it would be productive. "PRChina-" would be about the third on the list -- or lower -- of name elements people are likely to guess when using this. (Adding redirects from PRC- to PRChina- was mooted at that time, but seemingly not implemented, until the move of the -geo- to that name.) The transclusions I've looked are all nothing to do with IN, were used by a number of different editors, and date more recently than the renaming. (In fact, it looks like I bot-edited all the "old" translusions, which makes me wonder if the original intent was actually to delete it -- but I'm afraid that if the closer (Amalas) and I were to have a summit on that now, I can guarantee that at least one of us wouldn't recall, unless there's an on-wiki note lying around someplace.) Anyway, the consistency could clearly stand to rise, here: I suggest moving all the "PRC"s to "PRChina", most definitely keeping the redirect and transclusions thereof; the "China"s may be less clear-cut, since the current or intended scope might be China-in-general (or "Mainland China", heaven forfend, or something else), so this could represent a narrowing (or widening) thereof. I wouldn't necessarily be offended by a redirect-preserving move of those too, but the categories will presumably have to be renamed too, so maybe it's better done at SFD. Alai 01:51, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
Query So does all this mean that 'China' should be Category:People's Republic of China sports venue stubs / {{PRChina-sports-venue-stub}}
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Colombian sportspeople stubs

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I propose{{Colombia-sport-bio-stub}} and Category:Colombian sportspeople biography stubs catscan shows approx 80 articles with a footy subcat already in existance. Waacstats 12:29, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

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Split of Category:European football club stubs

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The result of the debate was create.
Propose the following templates

numbers per catscan, also propose categories for any of these that reach 60 along the lines of Category:Fooian football club stubs. Waacstats 12:29, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

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Split of Canadian sportspeople stubs

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The result of the debate was create.
Category over 600 I propose splitting out boxers and wintersports with

figures per catscan.Waacstats 12:07, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

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Nigeria-ethno-group-stub

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Nearly everything in Category:Ethnic groups in Nigeria is a stub, so I propose {{Nigeria-ethno-group-stub}} (without category, for now). With most of Nigeria's hundreds of ethnic groups still lacking articles, this template has plenty of potential growth in use. How far less populous and ethnically-diverse countries like Zimbabwe and Kenya have their own ethnic group stubs, while Nigeria was passed over, escapes me. Picaroon (t) 05:40, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

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Templates for Zanzibar

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Propose {{Zanzibar-geo-stub}}, {{Zanzibar-bio-stub}}, {{Zanzibar-politician-stub}} and {{Zanzibar-stub}} templates, all upmerged for the time being into the Tanzanian template. Zanzibar-stub might be viable with all of the other also feeding into it.--Thomas.macmillan 19:59, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

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Irish geography stubs

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The result of the debate was create.
Propose creating {{Kildare-geo-stub}}, {{Wicklow-geo-stub}}, {{Meath-geo-stub}}, {{Tipperary-geo-stub}}, {{Leitrim-geo-stub}}, {{Waterford-geo-stub}}, {{Wexford-geo-stub}} and {{Donegal-geo-stub}}.
{{Ireland-geo-stub}} is getting huge, and it will be much easier for editors to find articles needing expansion if they more of them are grouped by county. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:46, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Less huge than some, mind you... Support templates for all remaining counties, but upmerged until numerical viability is clear (at time of last db dump, none had reached 60, though Wicklow and Donegal were in the low 50s, though doubtless some have grown signicantly, the frequency of en: db dumps currently being "highly in-"). If none are, and the parent continues to grow, provincial upmerger targets would be a feasible option. Alai 02:09, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Support upmerged, per Alai - also support categories for any that reach the 60-stub threshold (the others should stay upmerged). Grutness...wha? 02:18, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
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More Irish geography stubs

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Irish stubs

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The result of the debate was create all except -law- for now.
Propose creating {{Ireland-law-stub}}, {{Ireland-school-stub}}. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:41, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Likely sizes? Alai 02:09, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
    • To partly answer my own question, the -school- type is now populated to exactly 60 (and I think there's a few others lurking around, too). Alai 04:19, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
  • The school one seems sensible for an upmerged template, at least, as long as the template text makes it clear these are for the RoI - the law one though is a little more tricky, since it would presumably cover historical laws dealing with the time the entire island was part of the UK. Grutness...wha? 02:18, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
    • I think that the law stub has to be a 32-county one, because as Grutness points out there are many articles on pre-1922 statutes, many of which are still in effect in Ireland, and the same goes for case law. There may at some point be a case for an {{RoI-law-stub}} for the post-1922 issues, but I suggest starting with a 32-county law stub.
      I have created the school template and categ. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:14, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
      • Any objections to {{Ireland-law-stub}} on 32-county basis? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:14, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
        • I've no idea how sensible that is in scope or size terms, but it does seem to be making the ambiguity of the "Ireland" element in templates more acute. Not that a sensible alternative immediately suggests itself, but ideally we'd make a systematic distinction. Alai 17:12, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
          • The ambiguity is not avoidable without a lot more complexity, because there is a large body of articles on Irish law which predates partition. The alternative to having an all-Ireland template is to have separate ones for North and South, plus a parent template for all Ireland. That seems messy unless we know we have enough articles to justify it, so why not start with the all-Ireland template and split later if numbers justify it? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:35, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
            • The ambiguity is avoidable at the template-naming level, which is all I'm concerned about at present. (The ambiguity in general I'm more than cognizant of.) Admittedly, if we start using IoIreland or some contrivance for the all-Ireland categories, that's inconsistent with the resolution of the articles at Ireland and Republic of Ireland, and if we want to maintain that, we'll have to revisit a number of existing Ireland- templates, and consider renaming them to RoI- or RepIreland-, or some such. (And in some cases it's as clear as mud which is intended and/or applied in practice.) If we can't achieve and maintain a systematic distinction, I'd be inclined to say let's try to avoid all-Ireland scopes entirely, and double-stub where appropriate. (Which will doubtless degrade in practice due to people's invoking a precision of definition that correlates precisely to their personal sensiitivities, but that's true of pretty much any possible resolution.) Alai 04:59, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
        • The problem with that is that a lot of those should be stubbed with UK-law-stub... of course, double-stubbing is an option in those cases, but sadly items double-stubbed with UK and Ireland equivalent stubs tend to get into small edit-war flurries. We can try it, see what happens, but it tends to get a bit messy. Grutness...wha? 22:32, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
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Zimbabwean stubs

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The result of the debate was create upmerged templates.
Proposing {{Zimbabwe-org-stub}} (National Constitutional Assembly, ZOSS, National Arts Council of Zimbabwe, Africa Center for Holistic Management, WOZA to name a few)

{{Zimbabwe-writer-stub}} (Catherine Buckle, Chenjerai Hove, J. Nozipo Maraire, Charles Mungoshi, Yvonne Vera, Onesimo Makani Kabweza)

{{Zimbabwe-musician-stub}} (David Chifunyise, Stella Chiweshe, Dumisani Maraire, Dorothy Masuka, Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, Ephat Mujuru)

{{Zimbabwe-business-bio-stub}} (Phillip Chiyangwa, Strive Masiyiwa, Mutumwa Mawere, Trevor Ncube)

Just to have a variety of sub-categories for stubs so that our members of WPZimbabwe can choose a category of their interest to expand on. Many thanks for your considerations. Mangwanani 16:17, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

As a member of the WikiProject, I suggest templates for all, but categories for none. They aren't close to numbering 60, but may well be if the project continues. --Thomas.macmillan 17:09, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Support upmerged templates, per Thom, "numerosity" and possible future use. Alai 22:59, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
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Category:Africa political party stubs subtypes

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The result of the debate was create by region.
Oversized. We could just about split out the socialists (59), but I'm guessing we probably want to split by countries, or failing which, regions. Largest country is Namibia (48); that'd make Category:Southern Africa political party stubs viable, regardless of how it's defined. I strongly suggest we define it by the UN subregion. (I'll get back to you on numbers for the other regions if anyone is gung-ho for them.) Alai 07:23, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. BTW, since all the countries in Africa now have separate geo-stubs, those can be realigned to the UN standards very easily if necessary. Mind you, there are so few unsubcategorised stubs there now that it might be better to re-merge them into Category:Africa geography stubs. That's all a bit of an obiter dictum on the current proposal though. Grutness...wha? 23:11, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Either works for me, slight preference for the former. (I won't rag on the BTW, since it does make sense to make a joint decision on these, rather than leaving them inconsistent.) Alai 23:54, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Splitting by ideology wouldn't work. The dominant factors in African politics are ethnicity and religion, not secular political ideology. A country's "socialist" party can have its base in one ethnic group, while the "conservatives" will draw their support from another. And the party platforms could be incredibly similar or incredibly different based on a variety of factors, none of which is their nominal standpoint. I'd recommend by region instead, maybe a separate template for Islamist parties (if there are enough) and by country for the larger countries - eventually. Picaroon (t) 05:49, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Islamists didn't seem to come up, so either there's not that many, or else their categorisation is wonky (or a combination of the two). Let's go with regions. Alai 05:51, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
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Category:Primate stubs split

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Category:Primate stubs is getting big - it currently has 340 articles. I recommend the following split:

Od Mishehu 23:00, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Honestly, that's really not that big, and it's unlikely to get significantly larger (and certainly not over 800), unless this starts getting populated on some entirely unforeseen basis: there's only around 400 primate species in total. Have you checked at the primate WPJ to see if this is something they're especially gung-ho for? Are there lots of specialist editors in any of these areas that would find these particularly useful? Personally, I wouldn't bother with any of these. I'm afraid I certainly have to oppose the prosimians as polyphyletic. (BTW, on a very niggling note, those template names are somewhat suggestive of there being a {{monkey-stub}}, which there currently isn't.) Alai 03:07, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Perhaps compromise with {{monkey-stub}}? Her Pegship (tis herself) 20:18, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
    • Also not monophyletic (i.e. not a coherent group as regards current evolutionary and genetic understanding), and also not really needed, for the same reason as above. If one really must split these, I'd suggest oldworldmonkey-stub and newworldmonkey-stub with the first two cats, but I think the best option is to leave things as they are. Alai 06:01, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
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pharm-stub subtypes

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At #4 on the Spit List, the following types all look at least superficially viable, by permcat-count:

I don't imagine we'd want to create all of these, so please cherry-pick the combo that seems to make the most sense, not overlap excessively, etc. Alai 04:11, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

This seems to be making the whole stub thing way too complex. Most people probably don't want to remember every single category of stub tags related to pharmacology articles, and will just tag it with the default {{pharma-stub}} tag anyways, which seems to be working just fine. The only one that I could even see making sense to separate is the pharmaceutical industry stubs, since it's more business-related and not related to the science of pharmacology. Dr. Cash 04:32, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
1675 articles in one stub category is not "working fine" in my book, unless the model is "dump and forget". Are there no differential interests of editors within the pharmacology domain? (Or indeed, is no-one interesting in expanding any of 'em?) Alai 05:04, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
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Category:Thuringia geography stubs, by district

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The result of the debate was create by district as needed.
In the tradition of German states, never knowingly just a little bit oversized: 1085 articles, and there's 17 districts. At least some look numerically viable. A total split would run into some very small districts, and nor are there any intermediate-layer regions that I'm aware of. At a real push, the GDR split this area up into roughly three chunks, but that'd be a bit much as regards use of the way-back-when machine. Alai 04:20, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

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Africa-footy-bio breakdown by region

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The result of the debate was create by region.
Category is nearing 700 in total, so I propose splitting the category by region as per African politician stubs. None of the current countries with templates are over 60 (Mali (52) and Burkina Faso (54) being the closest. All regions seem viable.--Thomas.macmillan 19:12, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

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Botswana-bio-stub needs a category. What should it be called?

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The result of the debate was created as Batswana people stubs.
Adding up the templates, {{Botswana-bio-stub}} has it 60 and should have its own category. However, I am not really sure what it should be called. Botswanan would be the standard, but it is incorrect, as people from Botswana are called Batswana, which is not really known throughout the world (or on Wikipedia categories, for that matter). Perhaps "People of Botswana stubs" is best?--Thomas.macmillan 03:04, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

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Split of struct-stub

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I believe the following will all pass 60

also

may proove useful as a parent for three of the above and any national templates people feel like creating.Waacstats 09:37, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Add to this the following european countries

last one scoped for Republic of Ireland. Waacstats 09:54, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

I support {{Nigeria-struct-stub}}, I could probably find 60 articles to put that on (there are a good amount of football stadiums with articles.) Should the malaysia-struct-stub supersede my malaysia-mosque-stub proposal below, or should they both be created? Picaroon (t) 23:46, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
When cheking the articles on catscan (unfortunatly down at the moment) I discounted the mosques because of your proposal so there should be eneough to create categories for both mosques AND building/structures for Malaysia. Waacstats 07:51, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Support any which are at 60, but please lets keep the categories consistent! You've got Nigeria, Argentina, Iran, Brazil, Bulgaria, Malaysia and Chile at the noun form, but then Austrian, Swiss, Dutch, etc etc etc. IIRC the existing ones are at the adjectival form, so the first seven I named should be changed. Grutness...wha? 23:58, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
    • And that shows exactly why people should propose and wait before creating. Of course the first group should be adjectices not nouns. Waacstats 07:51, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
      • Adjectival would also correspond to normal usage in all of these cases. Not that "normal usage" holds sway in all portions of the stub category hierarchy... Alai 08:00, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
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Category:Southern United States radio station stubs Subcat

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Since Category:Southern United States radio station stubs is maintained by the stubs creation process, I am proposing to add a sub category of Category:Mississippi radio station stubs to compliment the already present subcats for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virgina. The template {{Mississippi-radio-station-stub}} will place Mississippi radio station stub articles into this proposed subcat. As the one trying to resurrect WikiProject Mississippi, there's a lot of organization that needs to be tended to and this is part of that goal. Thanks. -- ALLSTAR ECHO 07:00, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Umm, wha? haha The Mississippi-radio-station-stub puts any articles tagged with it into Category:Mississippi stubs and Category:Southern United States radio station stubs and not into any Mississippi radio-specific cat. I could see it being left that way if there was a Radio Stations subcat within Category:Mississippi stubs but there isn't. Actually the same could be said for the Missisisppi newspaper, tv, structure, sports arena, and school stub templates being used already. -- ALLSTAR ECHO 07:37, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
You'll have to be a little more specific in your question than "umm, wha?" if you're expecting a useful answer. Your comment seems to be to the general effect of "there must be a subcat, unless there's a subcat". There does not appear to be enough articles for such a subcat: see WP:STUB#numerosity. Alai 07:56, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
What Alai is probably attempting to get across (in his/her own inimitable fashion) is that, in order for {{Mississippi-radio-station-stub}} to have its own Category:Mississippi radio station stubs category, according to stub-sorting guidelines, there should be at least 30 articles tagged with it. (If there were no WikiProject, the standard number is 60.) Currently there are 26 articles; if you can create 4 more I think we can justify the category. Cheers, Her Pegship (tis herself) 13:47, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
Wouldn't it be terrible to have an imitable fashion, though? We're not looking for just another four, however (otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned it). The WPJ scope is "Mississippi", not MI radio stations. There's already a Category:Mississippi stubs, which at significantly less than one listings page, is not presently remotely in need of any sort of splitting at all, to the point, I think where there ought to be a presumption in not splitting it, even were a > 60 subcat just about feasible (as might be the case with the "media" type currently at SFD (or preferably, a media category fed entirely from upmerged templates)). I've no objection to templatising everything to death for the sake of symmetry, and in case of future need, but I have the usual standing objections to over-sorting a small number of articles into below-critical-mass cats. Alai 18:44, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
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Category:Romania Centru geography stubs, by county

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I trust no-one objects to "downsplitting" the upmerged county templates that were (over-)populating the regional cat. (I already have.) Alai 20:10, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

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Category:Indiana Registered Historic Place stubs

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I've sped this, because: the parent's oversized again, and generally is growing at a madcap rate; the established pattern seems pretty clear; and because I started sorting these, in the mistaken belief they already existed. (Pesky I-states.) Alai 21:02, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

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Skeleton racers

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I propose {{Skeleton-bio-stub}} and Category:Skeleton racing biography stubs catscan shows 64 articles for this sport.Waacstats 12:00, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

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Category:Poultry stubs {{Poultry-stub}}

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The result of the debate was create upmerged template.
Currently all articles on agricultural domestic birds have to be tagged with {{livestock-stub}} which is arguably inappropriate (semantics, but "livestock" normally connotes only mammals), and in any case, livestock is far too broad a category, or they must be tagged with {{Agri-stub}} which is even broader.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 05:02, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Permcat-wise, Category:Poultry is a subcat of Category:Livestock, implying the broader definition. If the nicety is a concern in and of itself, I'd suggest an upmerged template, feeding into the same category. If you really want to split them out into a separate category, the question of numerical thresholds hoves into view. Are there 60 existing such stubs? Alai 06:18, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
    • As far as I can see there's a little over a dozen spread between agri-stub, livestock-stub, and various bird-stub subtypes. Probably enough for a template, but certainly nowhere near enough for a category. If livestock-stub was going to be split up (which at 190 stubs seems unnecessary), then splitting the cattle andpigs out as subtypes would probably be a better move, numbers-wise. Grutness...wha? 08:51, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Maybe I misunderstood how this works. I really only wanted to have {{Poultry-stub}} for now. I read the instructions above and it said to format the request like the other ones, so I did. Now I see that there are others formatted differently. How do I fix? I do not understand the usage "permcat-wise" nor can I find it on Wikipedia:Stub or Wikipedia:Category.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 00:23, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Try Wikipedia:Glossary :). A permcat is a permanent (i.e., non cleanup or stub) category. What Alai means is that Category:Poultry itself is a subcategory of Category:Livestock, so although livestock sounds like it would be mainly mammals, birds are included. Basically, a {{poultry-stub}} template sounds a sensible idea, but - given the small number of stubs that would currently take it - it should feed into a more widely-scoped category (or categories) for now (as per the thresholds given at the top of WP:WSS/P). If there are enough articles using {{poultry-stub}}, then a separate Category:Poultry stubs will become a reasonable idea, but for now it would be a bit too small. If all you're after is an upmerged template, though, I don't see any problem 9and I've amended the heading to match that - hope you don't mind!)Grutness...wha? 01:13, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Not at all! Thank you. And thanks for the explanation. I haven't put any time into understanding categories yet, so I guess I didn't know what I was getting into here. I'll have to do some more reading.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 13:01, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
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Category:Indianapolis-Anderson-Columbus geography stubs

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Indiana-geos are now oversized; this looks like the logical place to start, being the largest CSA in the state. (Thereafter I'd imagine the remaining large *SAs, and thereafter the informal regions characterising the rest of the state, on the pattern of the couple of other states that have been done.) Alai 20:10, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

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{{SouthAfrica-sports-venue-stub}}

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Thoughnot exactly proposed, I created this template while splitting the struct-stubs as i realised many SouthAfrica-structs would fit this. It now has over 60 articles so I propose Category:South African sports venue stubs. Waacstats 16:23, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

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{{Canada-icehockey-venue-stub}}

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The result of the debate was create.
The above template has over 60 stubs propose creation of Category:Canadian ice hockey venue stubs. Waacstats 14:22, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

OMG it is 150+. Sped. Valentinian T / C 21:02, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
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Category:Hospital stubs

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The above cat is getting close to oversize (748) propose the following

I'll let the closer decide who wins the almost inevitable discussion as to American/United States and British/United Kingdom. Let me say that these match what is used in the permcats. Waacstats 22:16, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

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Split of Actors

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Catscan indicates that the folloeing are viable

Waacstats 13:20, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

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Category:Colorado radio station stubs

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The result of the debate was create.
There are currently 101 pages that link to {{Colorado-radio-station-stub}}, which I feel is sufficient to warrant these particular stubs getting their own category, a sub-category of Category:Western United States radio station stubs. JPG-GR 06:08, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

D'oh! JPG-GR 19:10, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
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Category:American journalist stubs, by DoB?

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The TV journos being already split out, there doesn't seem to be a great deal of other possibilities: there's some categorisation into "columnist" and "reporter" cats, but not a lot, and it's not clear how useful that'd be anyway. So what about the usual axis of last resort for people cats: date of birth? Alai 07:21, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

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2 more categories needed

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The result of the debate was create.
While in the midst of creating struct-stub and sports-venue-stub I created 2 templates which wern't proposed but have reached 60 articles so I request the following categories

with maybe more to follow as I work through the struct-stubs. Waacstats 15:42, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

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{{Japan-route-stub}}

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The result of the debate was renamed to Japan-road-stub.

There are many National highways of Japan that does not have a proper stub type. I thought this one would work, but I would like to here what you guys would think.
03:16, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
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Category:Japan national highway stubs

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The result of the debate was rescoped to Japanese road stubs.

And this along with the one above. This is my first time, so if I'm doing something wrong, please let me know. Thanks!
03:17, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
  • sadly, yes, quite a lot of things. First, as the notice at the top of this page says, you should propose new stub types before you create them, in case there are problems with them. In the case of these, there definitely are. We've recently been reamalgamating incorrectly created US highway stubs back into the (correct) road stub categories - the same should be done here. I've no objection to a {{Japan-road-stub}} / Category:Japan road stubs, which would cover roads, streets, and highways, but there is definitely no need for a separate national highway stub. Grutness...wha? 05:01, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
  • So for now, who should move the stub to its new title? I don't mind moving the stub if no one else will do it, but I also want to know what should I do first before moving the template?
    18:47, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
Eh... never mind. I'll just move the template myself and see if things go well.
18:49, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
OK, thanks! I've completed the bot-moves and deletions. Alai 23:34, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
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Split of Category:Nigerian building and structure stubs

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The result of the debate was create upmerged template until it reaches 60+.
Yes, I know, {{Nigeria-struct-stub}} was just created a couple days ago, but I think universities and colleges can be split out, as there are about 40. Next most numerous are stadiums, of which there are 27 - not quite enough for their own template now, but someday. So I propose {{Nigeria-university-stub}}, using the above category and Category:Africa university stubs. Picaroon (t) 22:32, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

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Category:European Olympic medalist stubs

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Nearly oversized propose the following

and any other similar templates that people feel inclined to make. Waacstats 12:35, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

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Category:United Kingdom military personnel stubs

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Near oversized. Propose split similar to US

not to sure on the names but I'm sure someone will be able to improve on these. Waacstats 12:32, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

  • I can't improve on them personally, though if you want to get second-guessed some more, you could mention the proposal at [WP:MILHIST]]. Anyhoo, make mine a strong support. (No "United Kingdom Army" jokes, please...) Alai 17:22, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
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Category:European sports venue stubs

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The result of the debate was create per suggestion #1.
Category is oversized (832 articles + 11 temps and 9 cats) the largest country is the netherlands with 58 articles. do we want to create this slightly undersize category, wait until a country gets to 60 or split by some other means. Waacstats 11:54, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

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Clubs & Societies stubs

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The result of the debate was do not create.
Not currently in existance, I've had to use the general stub tag on some articles, such as the The University of Reading Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Film Society article. Pebkac 17:09, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Any idea on likely like? The orgs are certainly oversized, though it's not instantly clear if this is the best way to spliut them up. If created, it should follow the capitalisation of the permcat, Category:Clubs and societies, but be singularised per the usual convention for stubs cats (to avoid the double -- or in this case, triple) plural, so it'd be Category:Club and society stubs. Alai 19:41, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
  • I'm far from convinced as well. There are surely far better ways to split up the org-stubs than this. Quite a large number of clubs and societies are already groupable under subtypes of org-stub (Honor societies, Fraternities, charitable organisations, religious organisations, and the like). For the example given, an sf-org-stub was suggested not that long ago, which met with moderate approval - perhaps that idea should be looked at again. Grutness...wha? 00:25, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
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Category:Equatorial Guinea geography stubs

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The result of the debate was create.
There are now 60 stubs marked with {{EquatorialGuinea-geo-stub}} - another speediable one. That will leave only nine African countries without geo-stub categories, and several of them are getting fairly close. Grutness...wha? 10:19, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

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Category:Italian painter stubs -- by DoB?

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The result of the debate was create by DoB.
Significantly oversized, which would be whacked down fairly efficiently by 15th, 16th and 17th century birth subcats, which cover over 450 of them between them. Alternatively, "Tuscan" and "Bolognese" subcats would be viable, and handle at least the immediate >800-ness. Alai 01:19, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

  • I'd say DoB is a better way to go in general. The only area where painters are likely to be a serious problem WRT current nationality is probably the Flemish/Dutch groups. Grutness...wha? 01:23, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
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Category:Comics creator stubs

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The result of the debate was proposal withdrawn.
Nicely oversized, and has branched to subcategories Category:United States comics creator stubs and Category:United Kingdom comics creator stubs, but more pressing than UK is the proposed

MURGH disc. 17:59, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Firstly Going by Category:Franco-Belgian comic stubs the first template would be {{FrancoBelgian-comics-creator-stub}} FB is an electronic group who apparently have nothing to do with comics. Secondly "Oversized" in stub sorting terms means over 800 not the 600 articles here. Given that I would support the Euro category and template (assuming there are 60 articles) but not the Franco-Belgian ones, maybe templates for France-comics-creator-stub and a similar one for Belgium upmerged to the Euro category. Waacstats 18:24, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong oppose to the needly cryptic and ambiguous "FB-" element, per Waacstats. And can the comics crowd please try to wean themselves off of WPJ links on templates that'll be getting transcluded into articles? Having said that, since we do have a {{FrancoBelgian-comics-stub}}, a "-creator-" subtype isn't entirely unreasonable. However, since most people have a nationality, upmerged templates (to either cat) seem preferable. Alai 18:30, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong oppose to the FB- element, per above. Not really that keen on the FrancoBelgian name, though there is precedent. I'd personally prefer two templates (France- and Belgium-) both feeding into the same category. Grutness...wha? 07:35, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
  • The end result naming of this is obviously no biggie, and was only put forth as a parallel to US-comics-creator-stub and UK-comics-creator-stub templates. Whatever is wise. Could User:Alai please explain a bit more thoroughly what WP:CMC people should wean themselves off?
    The French-Francophone Belgian comics culture is a rather unique phenomenon (to which the Francophone Swiss invisibly belong) and dissecting will likely often lead to articles doubly sorted. MURGH disc. 22:33, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Aha, User:Alai means to avoid links to the wikiproject within the stub template. I see. While trying to learn, I followed a model I assumed to be by the book, but not so.. MURGH disc. 01:30, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Yes, that's it. I was especially bemused because the most obvious parent no longer has such a link, but I can see now you were basing it off of the other possible such. Sorry for my grumpiness on the topic, it just seems to be one of these revanant issues.
  • I understand the rationale for the Franco-Belgian scope, and indeed even for a common template for the existing type. But for people, how common would it be for someone to have to double-tagged with both? Alai 02:07, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Well you're right, when it comes to individuals, the double nationality is extremely rarely an issue ;) (Greg the only on top of my head..) I guess my point is that as articles no longer are stubs they'll be correctly categorised by nationality, but while still stubs (incomplete, unsourced and lacking in several ways) accessible to people working on francophone comics creator articles, it's nice to have these batched together. MURGH disc. 15:25, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
  • What can I say. If I understand you correctly, what's the point? You create a bin for sorting stuff out, how much sorting is crucial prior to sorting? I don't have the knowledge to create "upmerge" stubs and would rather avoid instruction creep. Just a simple need, and a simple request. MURGH disc. 00:45, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
  • In what sense is this "instruction creep"? You mean the creep in reading existing instructions, as against the addition of new ones? Or has this become some generic term of deprecation these days? The point is to keep templates in a reasonably standard format, and secondarily to facilitate re-splitting, should that become necessary later. To have every other French biography tagged with a "France-" template, but the ones that happen to be on comics people tagged with "FrancoBelgian-" would be needlessly inconsistent to the point of being quite baroque, and makes the lives of people trying to play "guess the template" when sorting to this type further unnecessarily diffculty. I've no idea what you mean by "sorting prior to sorting". The solution I've outlined seems perfectly simple. Alai 01:39, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Good grief. Nothing prevents (and let me assure you there will be) a Franco-Belgian comics creator stub with an adjacent French bio stub, please realise that. This is not the stub template to end all be all, but one of a highly temporary nature that has some specific utility for this particular project in symmetry with other existing cats/stub templates. There is US, there is UK, the need is for Franco-Belgian. Noone insists UK be split to English, Scot, Welsh, Northern Irish at a stub level, yet these eventually become populated bio categories. The point is to have a stub that isn't derived from a person's passport but the culture in which she operates. MURGH disc. 10:26, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Um, yes it does. The whole purpose of subtypes like this are to reduce the number of stubs in the parent stub categories. Thus, a Foo-comics-creator-stub would deliberately be employed to reduce the generic Foo-bio-stub category. Thus UK-comics-creator-stub replaces UK-bio-stub on articles using it, for example. That's the whole reason why we stick to the scheme of nationality for stub types. Creating stub types based on a person's perceived culture is fraught with complications and difficulties, which is why we specifically don't do that. If that is the intention of this particular stub type, then no, it is not the best way to proceed and - as I originally suggested - two stub types feeding into one category, for France-comics-creator-stub and Belgium-comics-creator-stub would be the correct move. Grutness...wha? 00:51, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
  • I must have explained myself very poorly. The parent categories are not, French, not Belgian, nor as such "subjectively perceived to be Franco-Belgian" by undersigned, but a genre irrelevant of nationality. Anyway, explaining and soliciting the blessing of this forum is more trouble than it's worth and obviously we survived fine before and will make do without in the future. Please be magnanimous in noting that the request is no longer at the table. MURGH disc. 21:59, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
  • I'm sorry that it ended as a withdrawn request, though I understand. The idea of a Euro-comics-creator-stub (as originally suggested) is still a viable one, though, and is likely to be created at some point. Hopefully that will make it at least somewhat easier to find and categorise the stubs. Grutness...wha? 23:29, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Ah, that makes a little more sense. Still not too keen on it, but I can see the reasoning. As far as FB is concerned, though, US and UK are the only exceptions to the CountryName-x-stub system, since both terms are almost universally understood in English-speaking countries to mean the United States and United Kingdom. I doubt there would be many people in the English-speaking world who would instantly understand FB to mean France and Walloon Belgium. Grutness...wha? 00:09, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
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Category:Academic biography stubs

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The result of the debate was create.
This one is oversized so I propose the following

also the following may be useful in the European subcat

not sure these two will reach 60 so templates only for now cats if reach 60

not to sure on this one but

Waacstats 12:43, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

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{{SouthAfrica-rugbyunion-bio-stub}}

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The result of the debate was create.
Main category is at 121, I imagine we can find more than 60 stub articles among them.--Thomas.macmillan 20:49, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Support This was not far off when I last counted and given +400 articles in the rugby-union-bio-stub with Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and UK already split out I would certainly not be against a template for this (or France) and category if the figures pan out. Waacstats 22:09, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Support A Japie-stub SouthAfrica-rugbyunion-bio-stub sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Grutness...wha? 00:06, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
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Repointing of Africa-geo-stub

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The result of the debate was create as discussed.
I'd like to propose re-pointing of {{Africa-geo-stub}} to direct it to the main Category:Geography stubs. At the moment, it is unused - and should remain so, given that every country in Africa has its own geo-stubs and stub articles about areas spread over several countries use the regional types like {{AfricaW-geo-stub}}. This would parallel what has already been done with both {{CentralAm-geo-stub}} and {{SouthAm-geo-stub}} and would mean one less category to be checked for stray stubs ever day! Grutness...wha? 22:50, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

  • I'm of the general view that such moves are potentially puzzling to the passing user, though I see the benefit of it from the "consumer" point of view. What about having each such populate both? Then they'd show up both where the person applying expects it to, as well as where the geo-re-sorting team will find it. Alai 23:31, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
    • Mmmm, that's a possibility. We get round that with the SouthAm and CentralAm ones (and also China-geo-stub) with a little note on the template saying "this stub type is deprecated, please use an individual country stub" or similar. But pointing it to both categories would work just as well and may be useful if we even decide to get rid of the African regional categories (which is a possibility, since almost everything in them is now subcatted by country). Grutness...wha? 00:37, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
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Split of road-stub

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The result of the debate was create.
This stub contains a mixtures of stubs for individual roads and of road transport-related articles. I propose that a stub is created for the latter grouping.--ReddyRose 17:49, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

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Science fiction conventions

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The result of the debate was create sf-convention-stub.
Though {{sf-stub}} is hardly in desperate need of further splitting, with some 500 stubs, I note that over 80 of them are for science fiction conventions. A {{sf-convention-stub}} for these could be quite useful... Grutness...wha? 22:40, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Works for me, and it does sound quite differentially useful. Though perhaps on that basis, a somewhat wider-scoped "fandom" type instead (or as well)? Alai 03:51, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
    • I wondered about that, but thought it might be a little vaguely defined. Whereas a convention is usually fairly clearly a convention, the boderline between fan activity and pro sf activity is a little more vague, especially when it comes to things like publications and organisations. For example, the organisation I know best, SFFANZ (of which, for my sins, I am a committee member) is a fan organisation, yet runs New Zealand's national sf awards (the Sir Julius Vogel Awards), which include both fan and pro categories. SFFANZ might qualify as a sf-fan-stub, but the SJV Awards are distinctly borderline. Grutness...wha? 05:26, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
      • As an activity SF awards are generally "fannish", regardess of who's on the receiving end. The utility of the distinction would be less to do with "fan vs. pro", as separating them out from stubs about miscellaneous fictional works (not to mention in-universe cruft). I'm certainly not going to claim it's without vagueness, but that's true of many a thing. In terms of permcat scoping, it'd map directly on to Category:Science fiction fandom (not that I'm suggesting a bot-trawl on that basis...). But I've no objections to the con type in and of itself. Alai 18:00, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
      • A {{sf-event-stub}} would do rather than {{sf-convention-stub}} (though it might be worth making the latter as a redirect), and would have a slightly wider scope, too, allowing for things like Campbell Conference (science fiction). The idea of an {{sf-org-stub}} is a separate one, which might also be worthwhile, though I can't see very many stubs on the subject at a quick glance (a {{sf-magazine-stub}}, on the other hand, looks distincly viable). perhaps sticking with the convention/event one for now, and then see what's left? Grutness...wha? 22:27, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
        • Not so much things like the Campbell Conference, as the Campell Conference and nothing else (at least at present). There's no Category:Science function events permcat, this generally feels much too artificial as a "union cat" on conventions and conferences, and seems a bad bet as regards differential editing. "SF organisations" doesn't really cover conventions... in more ways than one. Alai 00:53, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
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Split of Category:Architect stubs

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The result of the debate was create Italian, not Euro-.
The architects are on the margin of oversized again, although I've just fixed a lot of undersorting to the existing subcats, and I didn't even finish with the undersorted UK-architects. However, I think it's time for two new stubs: {{Euro-architect-stub}}/Category:European architect stubs, and {{Italy-architect-stub}}. CatScan is still down, but Cattersect shows 59 Italian architects; I'll propose Category:Italian architect stubs too if we can dredge up a 60th. I worried a bit about the Euros eviscerating the rump category, but I think there are enough Canadians, Japanese, Australians, and so forth to keep things sane. —CComMack (t–c) 04:57, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Strong support for all of the above, except for the "regional template", which I suspect would do more harm than good in the medium term. Much prefer upmerged national templates. Alai 05:16, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
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