Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/Archive/2012/December
Proposals, December 2012
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NEW PROPOSALS
A number of HK stub types
- Category:Hong Kong transport stubs - to hold Category:Hong Kong rail transport stubs and Category:Hong Kong road stubs, and to feed into Category:Asia transport stubs. It will also hold articles about HK transport operators, such as ferry, bus, etc.
- Category:Hong Kong media stubs - to hold Category:Hong Kong film stubs and Category:Hong Kong television stubs, and to feed into Category:Mass media stubs by country. It will also hold articles about HK journalists, radio stations, newspapers, film directors, etc.
- Template:HK-poli-bio-stub - to contain {{HK-poli-stub}}, {{HK-bio-stub}} and {{poli-bio-stub}}. It's intended for political scientists, activists, and people appointed into quangos, statutory boards or other non-elected positions that aren't part of the government and who aren't politicians. In Hong Kong the word 'government' refers only to the executive branch. A number of articles are already having both {{HK-poli-stub}} and {{poli-bio-stub}}.
- 218.250.159.142 (talk) 23:29, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
- This user placed a related message at Template talk:HK-poli-bio-stub which is now deleted; omitting the
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at the start, the full text of the message and of my reply reads as follows:
Not done: New stub templates should be proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals and once approved there, may be created. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:17, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks Redrose64. 218.250.159.142 (talk) 00:35, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
- Template:HK-artist-stub - for artists currently tagged as {{artist stub}} and {{HK-bio-stub}}, and to feed into Category:Hong Kong people stubs and Category:Artist stubs. 218.250.159.142 (talk) 00:35, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
- We already have {{HongKong-politician-stub}} and {{HongKong-gov-bio-stub}} which are both underpopulated. Surely there isn't a need for a third similar stub, we should expand the scope of one of these. Other than that, the others all look good, and media is already approved. Also what about Category:Hong Kong music stubs / {{HongKong-music-stub}} to hold albums, musical groups (undersized), singers (undersized) and musicians (upmerged)? --Qetuth (talk) 01:32, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
- It would also be good to rename/rescope {{KCR-stub}} to {{HongKong-rail-transport-stub}} - the Peak Tram articles do not appear to be KCR or MTR, and KCR is too small atopic to have its own stub tag --Qetuth (talk) 03:47, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
- The problem is that these people, who are mostly political scientists, social activists, appointed people, etc., aren't working within the government, nor are they politicians. That's why they ended up with {{poli-bio-stub}}. Further, I'm not proposing any new stub categories for these articles, but only a template to feed them into existing categories.
- As for KCR and the Peak Tram, I'd suggest to keep them as they are for the time being. It could be bit complicated, since all KCR stations, tracks, and all facilities are still owned by their previous operator, the KCR Corporation. There are also things that were scrapped before the operation concession was granted to the MTR Corporation Limited, e.g., old stations.
- For media, shall we add {{HK-newspaper-stub}} to feed into both Category:Asian newspaper stubs and Category:Hong Kong media stubs? For musicians and singers, I actually found quite a few articles that weren't appropriate tagged. Those stub types are probably underutilised instead of undersized. Let's hang on and see. 218.250.159.142 (talk) 11:39, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
- I see your point about poli-bio-stub. For the music, I first noticed albums and musical groups were odd first-level children, and only after that noticed the undersizedness of the various music stubs. But it probably isn't needed. I threw a few newspaper stubs in media already, but didn't seem enough to need their own tag.
- For the rail transport, my problem is that KCR only has 6 stub articles and is unlikely to grow, whereas there are clearly other rail transport stub articles which there is currently no stub for. The existence of the Peak Tram stations means I think a general rail tag is needed, and KCR is underused enogh I would have suggest deleting it if the rail one already existed to replace it with, so I tohught rescoping would solve both problems. --Qetuth (talk) 13:03, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
- I'm working on and off to find out stubs that aren't already tagged with the appropriate Hong Kong singers/groups templates, and I'm quite sure that are still some. As for Hong Kong newspapers, again I'm not suggesting a new stub category, but a template to feed into existing categories.
- As for rail transport, the problem is that there are very few other rail transport stub articles not already covered by the existing types to warrant a third stub template. The existing stub types may, nevertheless, split off stations (and stops) as a third type. 218.250.159.142 (talk) 22:15, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
- Although not yet approved, 218.250.159.142 (talk) is adding Category:Hong Kong transport stubs, Category:Hong Kong rail transport stubs etc. to various articles, despite this discussion being still in progress; and since there are not yet any stub templates, they are adding the category directly - even though it yields a redlink. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:08, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Environmental disasters
Western films by decade
Propose the following templates, categories if sufficient counts found:
- {{1900s-Western-film-stub}} / Category:1900s Western film stubs
- {{1910s-Western-film-stub}} / Category:1910s Western film stubs
- {{1920s-Western-film-stub}} / Category:1920s Western film stubs
{{1930s-Western-film-stub}}/Category:1930s Western film stubsAlready present.{{1940s-Western-film-stub}}/Category:1940s Western film stubsAlready present.- {{1950s-Western-film-stub}} / Category:1950s Western film stubs
- {{1960s-Western-film-stub}} / Category:1960s Western film stubs
- {{1970s-Western-film-stub}} / Category:1970s Western film stubs
- {{1980s-Western-film-stub}} / Category:1980s Western film stubs
- {{1990s-Western-film-stub}} / Category:1990s Western film stubs
- {{2000s-Western-film-stub}} / Category:2000s Western film stubs
- {{2010s-Western-film-stub}} / Category:2010s Western film stubs
Dawynn (talk) 02:57, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
- Support 1950s plus...For the earlier 3, this creates a confusing overlap with Category:Silent Western film stubs, so I'm not sure... --Qetuth (talk) 03:16, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
United Kingdom steam locomotive stubs
Footballers
Boxers
Cycling biography stubs
Handball biography stubs
Swimming biography stubs
Basketball players
Futher split of Category:Track and field athletics biography stubs
Category:Norwegian sport shooting biography stubs
Bible translation stubs
Translator stubs
Literary character stubs
In sorting stub articles that are part of {{WikiProject Fictional characters}}, a lot of character stubs have been tagged with {{lit-char-stub}}, because many characters are introduced in books before they become film or TV characters. Consequently, Category:Literary character stubs is growing (currently 635 articles), but all of these stub articles are also part of {{WikiProject Novels}}, {{WikiProject Literature}} or {{WikiProject Children's literature}}. Since there is already a corresponding {{lit-char-stub}} and {{child-lit-char-stub}} for the latter two, I propose that a new stub tag be created, to better classify these articles, and differentiate the stubs for characters that came from novels. Any suggestions? Fortdj33 (talk) 17:10, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
- Articles tagged by lit-char-stub by Catscan:
- Theatre characters: 32
- Poetry characters: 19
- Science Fiction characters: 46
- Fantasy characters: 83
- Novel characters: 324
- Children's lit characters: 19
- Characters in legends: 6
- There is of course some overlap, and I haven't figured out where the other 250 or so are hiding, but:
- {{theat-char-stub}}/Category:Theatre character stubs should have 70 articles total (many are currently tagged with {{fict-char-stub}}).
- {{sf-char-stub}} and {{child-lit-char-stub}} already exist.
- {{fantasy-char-stub}}/Category:Fantasy character stubs will easily be big enough with {{MiddleEarth-char-stub}} upmerged.
- {{Novel-char-stub}}/Category:Novel character stubs might be too broad, and too arbitrarily distinguished from things like light novel chars, short story chars, or fantasy chars, to be useful. I'm not sure. --Qetuth (talk) 23:36, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
- Well, I think that {{novel-char-stub}} would be useful, because the other fictional character stubs are divided by medium (animation, comics, film, etc.) {{Theat-char-stub}} might also be useful, as it would be more specific (such as for characters from Shakespeare and Cats, some of which are currently using {{lit-char-stub}}). But I think that {{fantasy-char-stub}} is unnecessary, as it is too broad and could possibly include characters from more than one medium. Fortdj33 (talk) 21:24, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
- I suggested fantasy because sf and MiddleEarth existed, and because I thought potential editors might be more interested in genre than medium, when so many chars cross mediums but few cross genres. (In this sense 'comics' is almost more of a genre than a medium). But thinking further you are right that {{novel-char-stub}} would be useful, and easier to clearly define that fantasy. --Qetuth (talk) 22:38, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
- Well, I think that {{novel-char-stub}} would be useful, because the other fictional character stubs are divided by medium (animation, comics, film, etc.) {{Theat-char-stub}} might also be useful, as it would be more specific (such as for characters from Shakespeare and Cats, some of which are currently using {{lit-char-stub}}). But I think that {{fantasy-char-stub}} is unnecessary, as it is too broad and could possibly include characters from more than one medium. Fortdj33 (talk) 21:24, 4 December 2012 (UTC)