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Proposals, December 2012

Please check how many articles qualify for a stub type before proposing it.

If (after approval) you create a stub type, please be sure to add it to the list of stub types. This page will be archived in its entirety once all discussions have been closed; there is no need to move them to another page.

Jewish People stubs

This stub would encompass groups/people who are ethnic Jews or Jewish by descent. It would include the categories Jews, Jewish diaspora, People of Jewish descent, Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardic Jews, Samaritans, and all of the sub-categories within those. I don't know how to make stubs, so please bear with me if I'm not doing this right.Evildoer187 (talk) 03:14, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

NEW PROPOSALS

A number of HK stub types

- 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 {{editprotected}} at the start, the full text of the message and of my reply reads as follows:
To carry {{poli-bio-stub}}, {{HK-poli-stub}} and {{HK-bio-stub}}, for political scientists, social activists, people appointed to serve as non-official members of LegCo, ExCo, UrbCo, district councils, etc., and people appointed to serve as non-executive heads or members of quangos. These people aren't politicians. (And in HK the word "government" refers almost exclusively to the executive branch, which includes only government secretaries (i.e. ministers) and civil servants.) 218.250.159.142 (talk) 14:06, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 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)
Copied here by Redrose64 (talk) 23:50, 20 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)

Environmental disasters

Western films by decade

Propose the following templates, categories if sufficient counts found:

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

Propose to create a stub template {{UK-steam-loco-stub}} and, at the same time, Category:United Kingdom steam locomotive stubs because there is much overlap between Category:United Kingdom rail transport stubs (contains about 70 articles on steam locos) and Category:Steam locomotive stubs (contains well over 200 that are UK). --Redrose64 (talk) 21:46, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Support Looks good to me --Qetuth (talk) 03:13, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Footballers

Boxers

Cycling biography stubs

Handball biography stubs

Swimming biography stubs

Basketball players

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:
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)