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This is an archive of discussions from Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals for the month of October 2008. Please move completed October discussions to this page as they are closed, 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.

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

Upmerge templates for Category:Asian building and structure stubs

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The result of the debate was create upmerged templates, and categories as they become numerically viable.
Create the following templates and upmerge. Sooner or later it will need to be done given that buildings and structure are a very general category and it gives us a standard framework to build upon. It would also reveal the disproportion of stubs for certain countries and a move towards a more even coverage of Asian buildingsBlofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 10:24, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

  • Strong support, and speedy: much better than continental template. One or two of these might argue for being double-upmerged into Europe also (though doubtless the UN geoscheme has them all in one or the other). Alai (talk) 15:42, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes I've been to Cyprus and have always considered it Europe but these days they seem to label Turkey and Cyprus under Asia. Georgia is pretty much border line I think Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 20:05, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Cyprus hadn't occurred to me; I was thinking in terms of Azerbaijan, Armenia, possibly Georgia, and I vaguely recall at least one definition the Europe/Asia border has it running through one of the CARs (confusingly enough). But if we stick with the UN, that's good enough for me. Alai (talk) 22:15, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

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speedy Category:Austrian actor stubs

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The result of the debate was create.

Template has over 60 articles. Waacstats (talk) 17:25, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

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{{Svalbard-geo-stub}} and Cat:Svalbard geography stubs

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I count 115 Svalbard geography stubs, so it is about time it got its own template and cat. The nineteen counties of Norway each have their own cat, but Svalbard is not part of any county, instead being a overseas territory, and has seen a recent explosion in short geography-related articles. Arsenikk (talk) 13:42, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

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Split of Switzerland-geo-stub

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The result of the debate was create.
Category:Switzerland geography stubs has about 1100 articles - propose canton-specific templates, with categories speedied for any passing the 60 mark. We already have about half of them - the others would be:

Grutness...wha? 23:27, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Support - greatly needed The Bald One White cat 11:47, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Support templates, and any viable categories. By-canton categorisation (and infoboxing) seems to be relatively poor, though there's some undersorting to existing types. Manual re-sorting may be required, though if many of these are on large landforms, that may require a lot of multi-stubbing. If we need to upmerge to regions, I'd recommend using the NUTS-2 ones. Alai (talk) 18:38, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

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Split of Category:Russia geography stubs

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Previously Russian geography stubs have been sorted by way of Federal District, however the time has come that they should be split into Federal subject categories and stubs. Those which need creation are:


--Russavia Dialogue Stalk me 04:24, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure that all of them are viable to be split from the regional categories. Are you certain all of the oblasts have over 60 geography stubs in them? I mean this is easily possible of course but I know a lot of content is missing for some oblasts in terms of rural settlements and rivers. I'd support the creation and sorting of the templates and then upmerge the oblasts which are not viable to have their own categories yet. Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 09:56, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
  • There's nowhere near enough stubs for these to all be viable, and none of the regional categories is close to being oversized yet. The largest has only 588 stubs, and contains the stubs for 18 oblasts - quick calculation shows there's no way that they will all reach 60 stubs - and it's doubtful whether any of them would. And another of the regions has fewer than 200 stubs. I definitedly oppose any new categories at present (except in cases where there are clearly 60 stubs), and don't really see the need yet for any of the templates, though i suppose they wouldn't hurt too much. Two of the names on your list needed altering to match stub naming standards, BTW - I've altered the Yamalo-Nenets and KhantyMansi ones on your list to meet stub standards. Grutness...wha? 00:25, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Support upmerged stub templates for all: if we don't need them now, it's starting to look foreseeable for us to need them sometime soon. Oppose any categories that wouldn't hit 60. If any of the regional cats pass 800 before the oblasts become numerically viable, let's pool brains again to see if there are other sensible sub-regional categories to "lump" to. Alai (talk) 02:02, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Support creation. If any of these fall short of the required sixty stubs, I will personally create some stubs to cover for the shortage :) It is easier to switch to organizing the stubs by the federal subject now, when the total number of stubs is around the minimum, than it is later, when the number of stubs is going to be in the hundreds if not thousands. As for the statement doubting that any of these needed stub types would ever reach the minimum, please consider that with over 1,000 cities/towns, over 1,500 urban-type settlements, and with almost 1,900 districts in Russia, such doubt seems kind of strange (and note that I am not even counting numerous rivers, mountains, or rural localities, many of which will eventually have stubs/articles of their own).—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 13:56, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
    • It's not a matter of some of them falling below 60, but rather, almost all of them inevitably doing so. Creating templates now and upmerging them avoids the difficulty you mention of re-sorting (if and) when there are thousands. Alai (talk) 14:24, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
      • Upmerging always get's me. So what you are saying is that we create templates for all of them now and continue to categorise by Federal District, and then create Federal Subject categories for them once they reach 60? --Russavia Dialogue Stalk me 14:38, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
        • Exactly right. The templates can be made, but categorising articles in the current categories. It will be easy enough to check which ones reach 60 (using the "what links hear" link in the toolbox) - once they do, there should be no problem with new categories for them. Grutness...wha? 22:39, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Support. The sorting by federal district is not only impractical now, it has been very artificial from the very beginning. The federal districts of Russia are not the constituent units of the Russian Federation. They are more akin to Standard Federal Regions of the U.S. Colchicum (talk) 15:13, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

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Specific sorting of American films

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I know the convention at WP:Films is to stub sort by genre, but myself and other editors i know like to work through years in film. I don't think the sheer number of American films is a reason not to organize it. What for instance if I wanted to work through American films of 1941?. How would I know which are stubs, I;d have to plough through them all and check each one. Given that US subjects however many thousands of articles we have are stub tagged shouldn't this be the same for US films too? Why are they exempt from US tagging? I know that many people would probably see this proposal as too extreme but I think it is a valid one given the considerable improvmeent needed on many notable American films and would be a very useful tool to organizing exactly what needs improving and working towards a situation where we can actively work at getting them all up to start class. As an example {{2007-US-film-stub}}. Naturally a bot would be used. If some years don't hit 60, which I would find highly unlikely for later years then they could always be upmerged e.g Category:1900s United States film stubs. I propose the following:
The Bald One White cat 10:55, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

  • Support + Comment I know when I've been working on films from 1930-1940 in the past, of the 200+ articles per category, most of them have been American films (as you'd expect). I think this is a good idea to identify the stubs per year, as per Blofield's rationale. A question though - most of these will alread be stubbed by genre (1930s-drama-film, etc) - what is the policy on how many stubs an article should have? I've seen some articles in the past with 3 or 4 stub tags, and to me that just looks messy (I don't know how other editors feel on this). If these stubs were created, what would happen to existing stubs on the articles? Lugnuts (talk) 14:37, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Yep anything over three stub categories begins to look awful and cluttered. Basically I think there should be one genre stub cat {1930s-drama-film-stub} and one country template e.g {1933-US-film-stub}. Occasionally the film may clearly be in another genre so it may need 3 but gneerally I think it is possible to have two stub templates per article. In terms of organization and content building I know it would be a very useful tool and may even encourage editor to work at devleoping the years and also the lists The Bald One White cat 14:47, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Strong feeling of despair and hopelessness. This is a proposal to split a category that does not currently need to be split, on an axis totally at odds with the basis it's currently organised. With no rationale as to why it it's at all likely to be in any way more useful. Suppose you didn't want to work on all the films of 1941. Who exactly does, anyway? This would inevitably give rise to both more multi-stubbing clutter, and to inconsistency in tagging between those that only get a by-year tag, those that only get a by-genre tag, and those that get both. As I recall, the original point of splitting by country was on the basis that various countries had their own distinct, indigenous film industries, characterised by a particular film industry. So why did we end up with Category:British film stubs? That seems to me to be a poorly thought-out notion entirely. The distinction between a "British" and an "American" film is often entirely inobvious, if not to say pretty subjective. (Nationality of the cast, the director, the crew, the location, or the money?) Come to that, why is the category at Category:British films when the main article is at cinema of the United Kingdom? Given the size of the UK-film- type, it may be a little late to try to get rid of it, but adding a US- type would be throwing good effort after bad. Alai (talk) 23:56, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
In your opinion yes, not fact. Equally how are you do know the film work group wouldn't find it useful as a way to develop the articles? You and a number of others persist that genre categories are of vital importance, but basically you are assuming that editors would be more interested in working through e.g "2000s drama film stubs" which includes films not only from the United States but just about everywhere else China, Philippines, Thailand, Brazil, Mali etc. Do you think it is more common for editors to want to work on films from every country in one stub category which are often barely related in terms of cinema, language and style? Or is having stub categories for US films which is completely in keeping with other US-stub sorting on wikipedia, which many more are interested in and focus almost purely on would be an absurd idea as a tool for the film project?? As for your justification that it is invalid because there is often an overlap between American and British film, you must surely know that there is in every way a strong overlapping in production between Italian and French films, and spanish and argentine films yet we have a decent country structure in place for each of these. The Bald One White cat 09:42, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
  • I must admit I agree with Alai - this sounds like it will simply complicate matters. And things are more complicated than even he suggests, since the "by nation" split is often a confusion of "by nation" and "by language". I think this may need considerable thought. Grutness...wha? 01:09, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Strong feeling of despair and hopelessness????? . In that case if thats your attitude thats the last time I ever list a stub proposal here. The Bald One White cat 09:31, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Whoabackupthereabit. It was a valid suggestion for a split, and it was also a valid rationale why it wouldn't be the best idea. I appreciate that the "strong feeling of despair" line may not have been the most appropriate, but we all get feelings like that about stub splits every now and again and sometimes they come out (I know I'm one of the first to say things that others can take the wrong way - it happened recently at SFD). Please let's just assess the options and try to find a good way of splitting things. Both of you are important stub workers, so no talk of stalking off, huh? Grutness...wha? 11:40, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Haven't thought this through completly but how about splitting the American films out of the current genre/decade categories so we would have something along the lines of {{2000s-US-drama-film-stub}} - Category:2000s American drama film stubs etc. I'm sure that in the same way that the people working through Category:Drama film stubs may not know much about say spanish films, those working through a Category:1900s United States film stubs may not know much about horror films. Waacstats (talk) 13:06, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
That would be an excellent idea I think and would solve my concern about the generalisation. Naturally we wouldn't want to have that category split too much but making American films more distinct from them would be a good move The Bald One White cat 13:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

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{{Norway-politician-1740s-stub}} and {{Norway-politician-1750s-stub}}

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The result of the debate was create.
The thing is, while there are not 60 stubs of Norwegian politicians born in the 1740s or 1750s, this is meant to be categorized in the large Category:Norwegian politician, 18th century birth stubs. Categorizing here, and not in the vague Category:Norwegian politician stubs, would be good. Punkmorten (talk) 08:48, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

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{{Korea-writer-stub}}

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The result of the debate was create.
The Bald One White cat 15:23, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

I'll upmerge this now. The Bald One White cat 11:47, 12 October 2008 (UTC) Template:Sfd bottom

Category:Central American writer stubs

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The result of the debate was create.
The Bald One White cat 21:47, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

There are many missing articles from spanish wiki which I have and will be adding further so that seems like a logical idea. Upmerge the ones that don't qualify? The Bald One White cat 18:48, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Proposals:

Could somebody offer a stub count and which need upmerging, me has to go to beddy boys. Cheers The Bald One White cat 22:02, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

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{{Nepal-school-stub}}

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Template upmerged

Create as upmerged template for {{Asia-school-stub}} and {{Nepal-stub}}. Most of the 26 articles in Category:Schools in Nepal are stubs. -- Eastmain (talk) 16:38, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

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Split of Category:Romania geography stubs

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The result of the debate was create.
We already have templates for all(?) the counties upmerged to regional cats. Someone has been busy and the following are all viable on the basis of those templates.

Waacstats (talk) 11:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

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{{Singapore-struct-stub}} and {{SouthKorea-struct-stub}}

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The result of the debate was create Singapore type.
Much needed. Would also take many out of the geography stubs cat. How we are missing one for singapore I have no idea The Bald One White cat 21:59, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

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{{Norway-gov-stub}} and Cat:Norwegian government stubs

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The result of the debate was create.
I count ca 70 stubs for government agencies, ministries, affairs etc in Category:Norway stubs, so should be speediable per S2. Arsenikk (talk) 20:46, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

There certainly seem to be a few, though my knowledge of Norwegian is not good enough to know at a glance whether there are 60, and Category:Norway stubs isn't crammed full (seems to be a bit of undersorting, too). A template's a good idea, and if there are indeed 60 then I've no objection to a category either. Grutness...wha? 22:38, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Follow-up on the undersorting- I've gone through A-J the lot sorting any that could have gone in subcats - and the main cat's down from 460 to 430 375. Grutness...wha? 23:22, 6 October 2008 (UTC), updated 00:23, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

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{{Infosec-stub}}

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The result of the debate was do not create.
There are a great number of information security related articles which need care to knit them together and flesh them out. Currently, the articles are spread across financial/economic, business, risk analysis/management, and other topics. One of threads that binds these together is information security which is often under-represented as in the following articles. These are not all stubs, but the parts relevant to information security may be considered stubs in some cases. Single loss expectancy, Risk assessment (I've begun to add infosec information to the article), Risk management, Information assurance, Information security, Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Vulnerability (computing), Exploit (computer security), Computer security, Computer insecurity. Thanks. DavidBailey (talk) 15:11, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

  • Perhaps this should be scoped more as "computer security"; there is already a {{crypto-stub}} but I imagine there are lots of other sub-cats to be considered. Her Pegship (tis herself) 20:58, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
    • Information security is actually a broader topic than computer security. It encompasses things like communications systems and networks, security awareness training, and even things such as physical building security. The problem is that there are many more specific-type stubs, such as cryptography, but nothing that encompasses this broader discipline. As a result, there is no cohesive information security sections within relevant articles. Basically, the information security aspects of relevant articles are being overlooked, or added only disjointedly and intermittently. DavidBailey (talk) 15:55, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
  • What would be the permcat for this type? The closest I could find was Category:Information sensitivity, which I believe is not the same thing. Also, if it's portions of articles which need further development on information security, it's {{sectstub}} you need. I can try to get a count for you if you can nail down where I should look. Thanks - Her Pegship (tis herself) 18:25, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
    • Or {{expand-section}}, as it's canonically called these days. I share all the above concerns: one person's broader topic is another's more loosely-defined one, I fear, and this could cut across existing types in a way that might not be helpful for other editors coming at the same topics from different disciplinary scopings. Likewise, 'numerosity' could be a concern. Perhaps a talk-page template would be a better way to go. (Is there a Wikiproject/Task Force/Work Group to cover this area?) Alai (talk) 21:47, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
      • Well, it's not just expanding the section, it's that there isn't one, regarding information security, in a lot of these articles. I was wondering if a Wikiproject would be the way to go instead of a stub tag, but I'm less familiar with the administration and operation of those. In my efforts to locate a Wikiproject regarding information security, I came up empty. Under Computing, the closest would be "Computer Science". Under Information Science, there really isn't anything related. DavidBailey (talk) 10:18, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
        • If push comes to shove, you can always create an empty section, and add {{expand-section}}... Though if the article is otherwise-complete looking, that might be a little jarring, but it seems preferable to labelling the whole article a stub, if it isn't. Alai (talk) 00:59, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
      • However, I did find a proposal for Computer and Information Security taskforce that looks promising. I'll redirect my efforts there. DavidBailey (talk) 10:23, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

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Category:Analytical chemistry stubs

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The result of the debate was create.
Proposed for speedy create - There's already a template. The category got upmerged into physical chemistry stubs 2 years ago, presumably for lack of entries... There are currently 67 stubs for this category, after a not-really-complete sorting process, and several people to actively work on sorting & improving the articles. The category would focus and accelerate that. -- Jaeger5432 | Talk 16:34, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Recreated under WikiProject Chemistry as {{analytical-chem-stub}}, with category and hierachy. Physchim62 (talk) 22:04, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

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Specific sorting of American films

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The result of the debate was do not create.

I know the convention at WP:Films is to stub sort by genre, but myself and other editors i know like to work through years in film. I don't think the sheer number of American films is a reason not to organize it. What for instance if I wanted to work through American films of 1941?. How would I know which are stubs, I;d have to plough through them all and check each one. Given that US subjects however many thousands of articles we have are stub tagged shouldn't this be the same for US films too? Why are they exempt from US tagging? I know that many people would probably see this proposal as too extreme but I think it is a valid one given the considerable improvmeent needed on many notable American films and would be a very useful tool to organizing exactly what needs improving and working towards a situation where we can actively work at getting them all up to start class. As an example {{2007-US-film-stub}}. Naturally a bot would be used. If some years don't hit 60, which I would find highly unlikely for later years then they could always be upmerged e.g Category:1900s United States film stubs. I propose the following:
The Bald One White cat 10:55, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

  • Support + Comment I know when I've been working on films from 1930-1940 in the past, of the 200+ articles per category, most of them have been American films (as you'd expect). I think this is a good idea to identify the stubs per year, as per Blofield's rationale. A question though - most of these will alread be stubbed by genre (1930s-drama-film, etc) - what is the policy on how many stubs an article should have? I've seen some articles in the past with 3 or 4 stub tags, and to me that just looks messy (I don't know how other editors feel on this). If these stubs were created, what would happen to existing stubs on the articles? Lugnuts (talk) 14:37, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Yep anything over three stub categories begins to look awful and cluttered. Basically I think there should be one genre stub cat {1930s-drama-film-stub} and one country template e.g {1933-US-film-stub}. Occasionally the film may clearly be in another genre so it may need 3 but gneerally I think it is possible to have two stub templates per article. In terms of organization and content building I know it would be a very useful tool and may even encourage editor to work at devleoping the years and also the lists The Bald One White cat 14:47, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Strong feeling of despair and hopelessness. This is a proposal to split a category that does not currently need to be split, on an axis totally at odds with the basis it's currently organised. With no rationale as to why it it's at all likely to be in any way more useful. Suppose you didn't want to work on all the films of 1941. Who exactly does, anyway? This would inevitably give rise to both more multi-stubbing clutter, and to inconsistency in tagging between those that only get a by-year tag, those that only get a by-genre tag, and those that get both. As I recall, the original point of splitting by country was on the basis that various countries had their own distinct, indigenous film industries, characterised by a particular film industry. So why did we end up with Category:British film stubs? That seems to me to be a poorly thought-out notion entirely. The distinction between a "British" and an "American" film is often entirely inobvious, if not to say pretty subjective. (Nationality of the cast, the director, the crew, the location, or the money?) Come to that, why is the category at Category:British films when the main article is at cinema of the United Kingdom? Given the size of the UK-film- type, it may be a little late to try to get rid of it, but adding a US- type would be throwing good effort after bad. Alai (talk) 23:56, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
In your opinion yes, not fact. Equally how are you do know the film work group wouldn't find it useful as a way to develop the articles? You and a number of others persist that genre categories are of vital importance, but basically you are assuming that editors would be more interested in working through e.g "2000s drama film stubs" which includes films not only from the United States but just about everywhere else China, Philippines, Thailand, Brazil, Mali etc. Do you think it is more common for editors to want to work on films from every country in one stub category which are often barely related in terms of cinema, language and style? Or is having stub categories for US films which is completely in keeping with other US-stub sorting on wikipedia, which many more are interested in and focus almost purely on would be an absurd idea as a tool for the film project?? As for your justification that it is invalid because there is often an overlap between American and British film, you must surely know that there is in every way a strong overlapping in production between Italian and French films, and spanish and argentine films yet we have a decent country structure in place for each of these. The Bald One White cat 09:42, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
  • I must admit I agree with Alai - this sounds like it will simply complicate matters. And things are more complicated than even he suggests, since the "by nation" split is often a confusion of "by nation" and "by language". I think this may need considerable thought. Grutness...wha? 01:09, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Strong feeling of despair and hopelessness????? . In that case if thats your attitude thats the last time I ever list a stub proposal here. The Bald One White cat 09:31, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Whoabackupthereabit. It was a valid suggestion for a split, and it was also a valid rationale why it wouldn't be the best idea. I appreciate that the "strong feeling of despair" line may not have been the most appropriate, but we all get feelings like that about stub splits every now and again and sometimes they come out (I know I'm one of the first to say things that others can take the wrong way - it happened recently at SFD). Please let's just assess the options and try to find a good way of splitting things. Both of you are important stub workers, so no talk of stalking off, huh? Grutness...wha? 11:40, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Haven't thought this through completly but how about splitting the American films out of the current genre/decade categories so we would have something along the lines of {{2000s-US-drama-film-stub}} - Category:2000s American drama film stubs etc. I'm sure that in the same way that the people working through Category:Drama film stubs may not know much about say spanish films, those working through a Category:1900s United States film stubs may not know much about horror films. Waacstats (talk) 13:06, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
That would be an excellent idea I think and would solve my concern about the generalisation. Naturally we wouldn't want to have that category split too much but making American films more distinct from them would be a good move The Bald One White cat 13:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

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Category:Artistic gymnast stubs

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Recently created - already oversized, propose the following splits

all will be over 60. Waacstats (talk) 14:28, 8 October 2008 (UTC) Template:Sfd bottom

Split of Switzerland-geo-stub

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Category:Switzerland geography stubs has about 1100 articles - propose canton-specific templates, with categories speedied for any passing the 60 mark. We already have about half of them - the others would be:

Grutness...wha? 23:27, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Support - greatly needed The Bald One White cat 11:47, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Support templates, and any viable categories. By-canton categorisation (and infoboxing) seems to be relatively poor, though there's some undersorting to existing types. Manual re-sorting may be required, though if many of these are on large landforms, that may require a lot of multi-stubbing. If we need to upmerge to regions, I'd recommend using the NUTS-2 ones. Alai (talk) 18:38, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

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speedy Category:Austrian actor stubs

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Template has over 60 articles. Waacstats (talk) 17:25, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

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{{Svalbard-geo-stub}} and Cat:Svalbard geography stubs

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I count 115 Svalbard geography stubs, so it is about time it got its own template and cat. The nineteen counties of Norway each have their own cat, but Svalbard is not part of any county, instead being a overseas territory, and has seen a recent explosion in short geography-related articles. Arsenikk (talk) 13:42, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

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Category:Moth stubs families

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Parent is oversized. Alai (talk) 01:11, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Support for any sub-taxon which has enough stubs. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:14, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

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{{Earthquake-stub}}

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Owing to confusion at the Canadian WikiProject over what geo-stubs are used for, they seem to have been labelling earthquakes as geo-stubs (since they relate to geography - questionable, since they actually relate more to geology, but still). Given that they are specific events, we generally stub-sort them as history stubs. In order to alleviate this confusion, I'd like to propose {{Earthquake-stub}}, plus separate by-country stubs for earthquakes in several countries/regions where they may be useful, as follows:

All would be upmerged into Category:Earthquake stubs and into the respective history stub categories for now, with separate categories once threshold is met. Category:Earthquake stubs itself would be a subtype of Category:History stubs, Category:Geography stubs, and Category:Tectonics stubs. Grutness...wha? 22:18, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Definately the right step to take Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 23:04, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Agree. Also because Canada has its own geography wikiproject and therefore the Canadian earthquake stub could probably be a subcat of that wikiproject as well. Black Tusk (talk) 02:33, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
    • Stubs aren't subcategories of wikiprojects. In any case, there's almost certainly nowhere near enough articles for a specific category of Canadian earthquake stubs at the moment. Grutness...wha? 04:26, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
      • That's not what ment. What I ment is the Canada WikiProject has subprojects (e.g. Geography, Ontario, Quebec) and if you tag the template or category talk page it automatically brings it into the wikiproject. This is how Canadian and most other country articles, categories, templates etc are. Black Tusk (talk) 04:35, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
        • Project and article tags are distinct. The article may be tagged with {{earthquake-stub}} but added to the Canada geogaphy WikiProject with a talk page template. I understand what you mean, but the point is immaterial for the purposes of defining stub categories and templates. Mindmatrix 04:47, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
        • (after edit conflict, and generally agreeing with Mindmatrix) That's not how stub templates normally are - they don't normally link with WikiProjects like that. WikiProjects have their own assessment templates for talk pages as a separate system to stub templates. There's no harm in a WikiProject adding a link to its main page in a stub category - that's quite usual. But stub templates don't normally categorise articles as "belonging" to a WikiProject in that way. Grutness...wha? 04:52, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Agree for general {{earthquake-stub}}. According to Google, there are 436 articles whose title includes "earthquake" (see this). Neither Canada nor the US merit their own stub type currently (assuming not all of the 40 US earthquake articles are stubs). Not sure about the other two. Mindmatrix 04:47, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Ah don't use google as a judge. A few weeks back I cam across a book on natural disasters in Guatemala and there are well over 500 earthquakes recorded in that book aloneBlofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 15:55, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
    • That's what I ment. Canada is getting more earthquake articles. I created at least 6-7 earthquake articles this month. Black Tusk (talk) 04:52, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
      • Once it has enough for its own stub category, there'd be no problem with one being proposed and presumably speedily created, but it's a fair way off yet (the threshold for separate stub categories is 60). For now, though, iupmerged templates are fine. Grutness...wha? 05:09, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
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Category:American Travel Writer stubs

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Category:American Travel Writer stubs Cruise Confidential is an expose of the cruise industry by the only American to complete a full contract in Carnival Cruise Line's 30 year history. Published by Travelers Tales, written by Brian David Bruns.Annie Aura (talk) 20:39, 13 October 2008 (UTC)--

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Category:South African government stubs

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Category:South Africa stubs is over 500 and could easily by split using a government stub. Between an upmerged {{SouthAfrica-election-stub}} and a stub for government ministries, it is easily viable.--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 18:34, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

That works just as well, I suppose.--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 16:56, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
So, upmerged -gov-, -election- and -pol- templates, then? Alai (talk) 17:02, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
I know poli is the current format, but I would think politics makes more sense. Thoughts?--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 18:41, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Why not keep it at -poli- for consistency, but add a redirect at -politics-? Alai (talk) 19:13, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Also, a {{SouthAfrica-law-stub}} would be useful for upmerging as well.--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 18:50, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Why not, indeed. Alai (talk) 19:13, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

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Category:English cricket biography stubs; by DoB?

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Significantly oversized. We've already split out the internationalists; by county might work, but might involve multi-stubbing, especially for the more recent chaps. Other than that by decade (or century) of birth would seem to be the somewhat traditional thing. Alai (talk) 22:59, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

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Split of Category:Russia geography stubs

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Previously Russian geography stubs have been sorted by way of Federal District, however the time has come that they should be split into Federal subject categories and stubs. Those which need creation are:


--Russavia Dialogue Stalk me 04:24, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure that all of them are viable to be split from the regional categories. Are you certain all of the oblasts have over 60 geography stubs in them? I mean this is easily possible of course but I know a lot of content is missing for some oblasts in terms of rural settlements and rivers. I'd support the creation and sorting of the templates and then upmerge the oblasts which are not viable to have their own categories yet. Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 09:56, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
  • There's nowhere near enough stubs for these to all be viable, and none of the regional categories is close to being oversized yet. The largest has only 588 stubs, and contains the stubs for 18 oblasts - quick calculation shows there's no way that they will all reach 60 stubs - and it's doubtful whether any of them would. And another of the regions has fewer than 200 stubs. I definitedly oppose any new categories at present (except in cases where there are clearly 60 stubs), and don't really see the need yet for any of the templates, though i suppose they wouldn't hurt too much. Two of the names on your list needed altering to match stub naming standards, BTW - I've altered the Yamalo-Nenets and KhantyMansi ones on your list to meet stub standards. Grutness...wha? 00:25, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
    • ...and four others that were misnamed, too... Grutness...wha?
  • Support upmerged stub templates for all: if we don't need them now, it's starting to look foreseeable for us to need them sometime soon. Oppose any categories that wouldn't hit 60. If any of the regional cats pass 800 before the oblasts become numerically viable, let's pool brains again to see if there are other sensible sub-regional categories to "lump" to. Alai (talk) 02:02, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Support creation. If any of these fall short of the required sixty stubs, I will personally create some stubs to cover for the shortage :) It is easier to switch to organizing the stubs by the federal subject now, when the total number of stubs is around the minimum, than it is later, when the number of stubs is going to be in the hundreds if not thousands. As for the statement doubting that any of these needed stub types would ever reach the minimum, please consider that with over 1,000 cities/towns, over 1,500 urban-type settlements, and with almost 1,900 districts in Russia, such doubt seems kind of strange (and note that I am not even counting numerous rivers, mountains, or rural localities, many of which will eventually have stubs/articles of their own).—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 13:56, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
    • It's not a matter of some of them falling below 60, but rather, almost all of them inevitably doing so. Creating templates now and upmerging them avoids the difficulty you mention of re-sorting (if and) when there are thousands. Alai (talk) 14:24, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
      • Upmerging always get's me. So what you are saying is that we create templates for all of them now and continue to categorise by Federal District, and then create Federal Subject categories for them once they reach 60? --Russavia Dialogue Stalk me 14:38, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
        • Exactly right. The templates can be made, but categorising articles in the current categories. It will be easy enough to check which ones reach 60 (using the "what links hear" link in the toolbox) - once they do, there should be no problem with new categories for them. Grutness...wha? 22:39, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Support. The sorting by federal district is not only impractical now, it has been very artificial from the very beginning. The federal districts of Russia are not the constituent units of the Russian Federation. They are more akin to Standard Federal Regions of the U.S. Colchicum (talk) 15:13, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

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Upmerge templates for Category:Asian building and structure stubs

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Create the following templates and upmerge. Sooner or later it will need to be done given that buildings and structure are a very general category and it gives us a standard framework to build upon. It would also reveal the disproportion of stubs for certain countries and a move towards a more even coverage of Asian buildingsBlofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 10:24, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

  • Strong support, and speedy: much better than continental template. One or two of these might argue for being double-upmerged into Europe also (though doubtless the UN geoscheme has them all in one or the other). Alai (talk) 15:42, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes I've been to Cyprus and have always considered it Europe but these days they seem to label Turkey and Cyprus under Asia. Georgia is pretty much border line I think Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 20:05, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Cyprus hadn't occurred to me; I was thinking in terms of Azerbaijan, Armenia, possibly Georgia, and I vaguely recall at least one definition the Europe/Asia border has it running through one of the CARs (confusingly enough). But if we stick with the UN, that's good enough for me. Alai (talk) 22:15, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

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Split of Category:Botanist stubs

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Category is over 700 propose 'the usual suspects'.

Might also be an idea to have the parent

Waacstats (talk) 22:27, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

  • Support -I;d even go so far as to propose creating a full series of templates and upmerging them for the "mainstream" ones anyway. I'd go for France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Sweden and any other country which has a number of them Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 23:40, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

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Split of Category:American football season stubs

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We've split the Category:Baseball season stubs by franchise propose the same here. The following appear viable

and anyother teams that are viable. Waacstats (talk) 22:27, 19 October 2008 (UTC) Template:Sfd bottom

Split of Category:Roman Catholic bishop stubs

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Another large category, propose splitting out the US, not many are marked with a by nation cat but cat scan seems to say there are plenty of articles for

Waacstats (talk) 22:27, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Go for it. But it is a shame the bias we have towards United States and UK. Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 23:45, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

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Split of Category:Finland geography stubs by province

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Hit 800. Split by province Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 21:54, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

And the remainder should get at least upmerged templates. (Counting by infobox might get slightly different results, I'll try that in due course.) Alai (talk) 22:30, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Could you let me know which provinces don't hit 60 and the number we have at present? I reckon filling out a few articles from this etc which has articles on villages within it might do the trick. Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 22:54, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, my list is a bit duff: two of the items above aren't provinces at all. So just going by the categories, just two of them are immediately viable. However, Eastern Finland Province is very close (56) and Oulu Province is at 44. The other two seem to be oddly small: perhaps either under-tagging or under-catting? Alai (talk) 23:12, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Infoboxes are (much, much) worse. So after Western and Southern, it'll take a manual trawl, it looks like. Alai (talk) 23:29, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh indeed most of them don't even have infoboxes, a shambles. If we did the split creating both the templates and categories I'd ensure they were all viable by topping up what was needed. Given the number of municipalities in Finland and villages and lakes within them in each province it should pass the test. Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 23:34, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Probably very feasible for the two I mentioned, but the Åland Islands and Lapland Province might actually be as "small" as they look (numerically), so I wouldn't necessarily rush into creating those, also. Alai (talk) 23:49, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes rather strangely in FInland the "regions" are actually the second level divisions below the "provinces" usually the other way round. It doesn't surprise me at all the uneven coverage. I'll create a few to make them all viable. Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 23:28, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

I just wasn't paying proper attention to what my SQL queries was coughing up: my bad. Alai (talk) 23:49, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Aland might have considerably fewer but Lapland Province at nearly 100,000 km² is the largest of the provinces in FInland. There are less settlements due to the temperature but I count 21 municipalities, each of which has about 10 towns and villages on average some with nearly 50. That combined with any lakes or rivers/mountains should be OK. Afraid I don't know too much about Aland -by the looks of it -a clear upmerge. Only a handful of municipalities. Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 23:55, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

By permcat, there's only 10 at present (even fewer than there are in Åland, which makes it to a mighty 12), so just bear in mind you'd be signing up for writing 50 of 'em. Alai (talk) 00:02, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Aren't there more than 10 stubs in Category:Municipalities of Lapland Region? I count about 20 stubs for Inari, Finland municipality alone. Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 00:04, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Aland's been on my "to expand" list for some time now - it's had a stub template for some time ({{Aland-geo-stub}}). Grutness...wha? 00:24, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Interesting. The best thing to clear up Lapland tomorrow is to probably create the template and find the stray stubs which are not categorised at present and see if it is viable for a seperate stub category by the end of it. By browsing the categories and it looks like we have in the region of 40-45 at present alone and plenty more to stub. Don't worry about that one for now, I'll sort it out tomorrow, LOL I'm getting all Christmasy evne browsing the articles!.Do you think Grutness that Aland is likely to ever have 60 geography stubs? Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 00:37, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Usual caveats apply: if they're not tagged with the stub template, not in the "province" category, or are newer (or newer-tagged, or newer-catted) than the last db dump, they won't show up in these counts. Alai (talk) 01:28, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
I don't see any reason why not. It seems very underrepresented by Wikipedia articles at the moment - it should certainly get far more stubs than it currently has. Grutness...wha? 22:53, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Yup I just checked it out we have 65 stubs now in Category:Lapland geography stubs so at least that is taken care of, I've probably missed lots of lakes and rivers too Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 12:21, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

I should have known better than to have doubted you for a moment in such matters. That's one problem solved... Alai (talk) 17:43, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

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Cat:Water transport stubs

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Currently this diverse stub category, {{water-transport-stub}}, consists of 855 entries. Everything except UK canals, individual ships and navy-related articles go into this one category. I propose creating the following:

Support. However I have no idea what you mean by water-bio-stub. For all I know it could be about biographies of dolphins, humpback whales or trout fish. Do you mean shipping-bio-stub?? Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 15:46, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Good point. How about {{shipping-bio-stub}} instead? Arsenikk (talk) 17:51, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Ah if they are to be applied generally to shipping magnate biographies and related content on people in the shipping industry then yes, exactly that would be fine. Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 17:58, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

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