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Category:Schleswig-Holstein geography stubs by district
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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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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)
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)
- Sounds plausible. Any idea of likely size? Would it by any chance with the horrendously-sized Category:Computer stubs? Put me down for an upmerged template at the very least. Alai 05:14, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
- Cattersect shows 22 articles in both Category:Science book stubs and Category:Computer books and 20 articles in both Category:Science book stubs and Category:Computer science books. There's a far smaller overlap with Category:Computer stubs or Category:Computer science stubs. So there's definitely enough for a template, though a category may still be some way away. Support upmerged template for now, though. Grutness...wha? 09:35, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
- Oo, new toy. Looks like you're right about the present location of these, though I think you're missing the (other) subcats of Category:Computer books: I count 54 from that tree in total. So viability looks fairly likely, given even a smattering from elsewhere, or at least close. (Though I don't guarantee there are any elsewhere: everything in Category:Computer stubs seems to be double-tagged, and I could find nothing at all in Category:Software stubs...) Alai 05:50, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
- I found 'em: there was a bunch lurking in the non-fiction books, which is doubly-handy since those had become oversized (yet again) too. It's a done deal, 84 in there at present. Alai 01:47, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
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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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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)
- 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)
- I think I can refrain from hauling it off to SFD for the want of three articles. :) Alai 05:41, 8 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)
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)
- Sounds very logical. Support. Alai 22:45, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
- Support. nb A cuba-sport-bio-stub would be viable with or without the baseball-bios I did a quick count and got at least 70 marked as stubs with about 36 being boxers so suggest an upmerged {{Cuba-boxing-bio-stub}} as well (though this may need a seperate proposal). Waacstats 09:29, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
- Nah, I think it barely needs that one: support such an upmerged template. Alai 22:58, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
- Support. nb A cuba-sport-bio-stub would be viable with or without the baseball-bios I did a quick count and got at least 70 marked as stubs with about 36 being boxers so suggest an upmerged {{Cuba-boxing-bio-stub}} as well (though this may need a seperate proposal). Waacstats 09:29, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Two geo-speedies
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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)
- And I think you oughta. Alai 14:46, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
- in that case... done. Grutness...wha? 00:32, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
3 Speedy cats?
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Propose speedy creation of the following categories as the corresponding templates have over 60 articles each.
- Category:Pennsylvania sports venue stubs (64)
- Category:Ohio sports venue stubs (69)
- Category:North Carolina sports venue stubs (61)
Waacstats 09:52, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
- Most certainly. Alai 09:56, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
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)
- Huh? What's that got to do with stub types? Grutness...wha? 00:18, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
Madeira Islands geography stubs
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{{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)
Split of airports
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there are over 100 articles in NorthAm-airport-stubs also in Airports in Mexico so I propose
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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)
Split of Category:Sports venue stubs
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I propose the following splits
- Category:Canadian sports venue stubs / {{Canada-sports-venue-stub}} & {{Canada-icehockey-venue-stub}} (+80)
- Category:Australian sports venue stubs / {{Australia-sports-venue-stub}} (+80)
as well as the following to complete the continintal split
- Category:Central American sports venue stubs / {{CentralAm-sports-venue-stub}}
- Category:Caribbean sports venue stubs / {{Caribbean-sports-venue-stub}}
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
- Category:Chinese sports venue stubs / {{China-sports-venue-stub}} (78)inc Macao and HK
- Category:Korean sports venue stubs / {{Korea-sports-venue-stub}} (74 South + 6 North)
- 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)
- 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 "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)
- Query So does all this mean that 'China' should be Category:People's Republic of China sports venue stubs / {{PRChina-sports-venue-stub}}
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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Propose the following templates
- {{Ukraine-footyclub-stub}} (59)
- {{Serbia-footyclub-stub}} (51)
- {{Greece-footyclub-stub}} (46)
- {{Bulgaria-footyclub-stub}} (31)
- {{Poland-footyclub-stub}} (30)
{{Portugal-footyclub-stub}}(30)
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) Template:Sfd bottom
Split of Canadian sportspeople stubs
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Category over 600 I propose splitting out boxers and wintersports with
- {{Canada-boxing-bio-stub}} Category:Canadian boxing biography stubs (60)
- {{Canada-wintersport-bio-stub}} Category:Canadian winter sports biography stubs (79)
figures per catscan.Waacstats 12:07, 14 October 2007 (UTC) Template:Sfd bottom
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)
- So, double-upmerged to Category:African ethnic group stubs and Category:Nigeria stubs? I don't see why not. I don't see why it couldn't be speedied, in fact. Alai 05:54, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
- I've created the template. If I notice it has reached sixty transclusions, shall I switch over to its own category? Picaroon (t) 03:55, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
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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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)
- OK, will create the templates on that basis. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 08:50, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
More Irish geography stubs
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- We have now have stub templates for half of the 26 counties, and I am busy dispersing {{Ireland-geo-stub}} articles as appropriate. However, this got me thinking again, and it seems to be unhelpful to editors for some of the counties to have stub templates, but not others. Editors are more likely to use the by-county templates if they don't have to remember a list of which counties don't have them. So I propose creating templates for the following list, with categories only if they reach 60: {{Carlow-geo-stub}}, {{Cavan-geo-stub}}, {{Clare-geo-stub}}, {{Kilkenny-geo-stub}}, {{Laois-geo-stub}}, {{Limerick-geo-stub}}, {{Longford-geo-stub}}, {{Louth-geo-stub}}, {{Monaghan-geo-stub}}, {{Offaly-geo-stub}}, {{Roscommon-geo-stub}}, {{Sligo-geo-stub}} and {{Westmeath-geo-stub}}. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:59, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
- I proposed exactly that under the earlier heading. Alai 17:13, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry, I misread your comment at the time as just support for the listed templates. Have now created all the latest batch, so we have one for each of the 26 counties. I am now busy dispersing {{Ireland-geo-stub}}. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:09, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
- No problem. I'll see what's bot-populable (albeit my offline data's horribly old by this point, so it certainly won't get anything like 'em all). Alai 19:33, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry, I misread your comment at the time as just support for the listed templates. Have now created all the latest batch, so we have one for each of the 26 counties. I am now busy dispersing {{Ireland-geo-stub}}. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:09, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
- I proposed exactly that under the earlier heading. Alai 17:13, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
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 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 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)
- 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)
- Any objections to {{Ireland-law-stub}} on 32-county basis? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:14, 13 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.
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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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)
Category:Primate stubs split
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The result of the debate was no consensus.
Category:Primate stubs is getting big - it currently has 340 articles. I recommend the following split:
- {{oldworld-monkey-stub}}/Category:Old World monkey stubs - 84
- {{newworld-monkey-stub}}/Category:New World monkey stubs - 116
- {{prosimian-stub}}/Category:Prosimian stubs - 73
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)