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Proposals, August 2020

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NEW PROPOSALS

Split of Parliament of England (pre-1707) MP stubs‎

Currently the third largest stub category, Category:Parliament of England (pre-1707) MP stubs one that I am sure was around before my wiki break. There is already a split of MPs for Welsh constituencies but looking at the articles the vast number of them do not give the constituency that the person represented. If we split by dob then we would still have an oversize category just from those with no birth category. No organized parties as such back then for us to use either. Initially I propose splitting by century of parliament so we would have something along the lines of the following

Category names match the perm cats but the templates are a bit of a mess when it comes to 18th Century, does this say weill eneogh that it is for pre 1707 MPs and does not include MPs from the parliament of Great Britain who were English?Waacstats (talk) 21:41, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Split of Pakistani politician stubs

Another exceptionally large category, Category:Pakistani politician stubs it looks like there are enough stubs for the following categories:

These national legislators do not seem to be split by state in terms of the perm cats so I think splitting these national politicians out first would be a good start. While some state parliaments could also do with categories

I have taken the categories from the perm cats and used the geo-stubs as a basis for the state name and the permcat use of Legislative Assembly/Provincial Assembly for MLA/MPA. I am hoping someone with a bit more knowledge of this part of the world can tidy-up if necessary any potential problems. Obviously templates first, categories if they get over 60 uses, which given the fact that the AzadKashmir category only has 5 articles may proove difficult for some.Waacstats (talk) 21:41, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Split of Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly stubs‎

Anyone cottoned onto the fact that I am running through the oversized politician categories. The permcat has no splits at all other than for the 43 speakers. A split by party would lead to at least 1000 Republicans just based on categories. so I see two options, first split by party and then date of birth:

or just go straight to date of birth split:

Split of Bangladeshi politician stubs

Yet another oversized politician stub cat, this time by party looks the best option so here goes:

These three are the only by party categories over 60 and all three appear to have enough stubs to warrant a category, but as always templates first. Waacstats (talk) 21:41, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

tidy up of India politician stubs

Although this category is slightly below oversized, I would not be surprised to see it oversized again soon. We already have a number of by party splits and a number of by state splits. I propose we complete the by state split hich should then kill the 'oversizeness' of this category, at least for a couple of years.

we do however also have two of the by party splits that are currently oversized, namely Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politician stubs and Category:Indian National Congress politician stubs. I suggest that we also split these by state and any split can then go to the state politician stubs category as well

Long list of by state INC/BJP templates and categories

If people can double and triple check these names for me I would be grateful, I have taken the names form the Geography stub category so hopefully there is nothing too majorly wrong. I did however drop the “India” from the Punjab INC/BJP category as I feel that there is no INC/BJP in Pakistan to cause confusion. Waacstats (talk) 21:41, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Split of Ontario MPP stub

The Category:Ontario MPP stubs|Ontario MPP stub covers biographies of Members of the Provincial Parliament of the province of Ontario, Canada. That legislature was created in 1867. However, the stub is being used for biographies of members of the two predecessor legislatures: the Parliament of Upper Canada (which existed from 1791 to 1841), and the Parliament of the Province of Canada (which existed from 1841 to 1867).

I propose the creation of two new stubs:

Note that there already are categories for members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada and the Legislative Council of Upper Canada, which would both be covered by the proposed Upper Canada stub: see Category:Parliaments of Upper Canada.

There are also categories for members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, and the Legislative Council. See: Category:Province of Canada people.

Skimming through the list of people with the "Ontario MPP" stub, there are several who were never members of the Legislature of Ontario, but rather the predecessor legislatures, and some of these were in fact dead before the Ontario legislature was created. Just in the "A" and "B" sections, for instance:

Individuals such as these should not be listed as Ontario MPP stubs; it's inaccurate and misleading

--Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 14:10, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

  • I think that {{UpperCanada-MPP-stub}} and {{ProvinceofCanada-MPP-stub}} would be better names, would these templates then feed articles into an Ontario category/Canadian politician or are they likely to have 60+ articles? Waacstats (talk) 20:32, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
    • Thanks for the reply. For the name, is it more common to use hyphens and no space? I've never created a stub category before, so I don't know the normal style. As for number of articles, the Parliament of Upper Canada lasted for 50 years. The 1st Parliament had less than 20 members in the Legislative Assembly and less than 20 in the Legislative Council, but the last Parliament had about 50 members of the Legislative Assembly and an increased number in the Council, so I would think there would likely be more than 60 articles, with a high stub-rate. (Those politicians aren't written about extensively.) As for the Province of Canada, it lasted for eight parliaments over 26 years, with 84 members in the first Legislative Assembly and over 100 in the last one, so I would think likely a high stub rate. There are already categories for Upper Canada people and Province of Canada: see "Category:Province of Canada people" and "Category:Upper Canada people". I would think it best if the new stubs not feed into an Ontario or a Canada category directly, since those were both established after Upper Canada and then Province of Canada. (Sort of like having different stubs for MPs for the Parliament of England, the Parliament of Great Britain, and the Parliament of the United Kingdom; overlap in territory, but different bodies.) Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:25, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
      • So where would they upmerge to, if not into an Ontario or Canada category? (I know nothing of Canadian legislative history; this is fascinating.) Her Pegship (?) 04:17, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
        • I'm sorry, but I don't understand your question (this is the first time I've tried to create a new stub.) What does "upmerge" mean? As mentioned in both of my earlier posts, there already are categories for Upper Canada and Province of Canada legislators. In "Category:Province of Canada", there is a sub-category: "Category:Province of Canada people", with two sub-categories: "Category:Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada‎" and "Category:Members of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada‎. Woudl the stub for "ProvinceofCanada-MPP" link to those two categories? Is that what you mean by "upmerge"? Similarly, "Category:Upper Canada people" has two sub-categories, for members of the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council. Would the stub "UpperCanada-MPP" point to those two categories? (Apologies if I seem dense here, but as mentioned, my first foray into the world of stubs. :) ) --Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 05:17, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
        • If you don't mind a little history lesson, I can give you the context of why I don't think the "Ontario-MPP" stub applies to Upper Canada MPPs and Province of Canada MPPs. Although there was a substantial overlap in territory between the three, they were fundamentally different, with different constitutional sources. Upper Canada was created by the Constitutional Act, 1791, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain. Its territory stretched from what is now the Ontario-Quebec boundary in the east, to the tip of the Ontario Peninsula (Windsor-Detroit). It also ran north to some extent, but had a clear northern boundary, where it ran into Rupert's Land, which was a separate British possession. Then in 1840, following the 1837-38 Rebellions in Lower Canada and Upper Canada, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the Union Act, 1840 to unite Lower Canada and Upper Canada into the Province of Canada. The Upper Canada Parliament created by the Constitutional Act, 1791 was abolished. Instead, there was the Parliament of the Province of Canada, which had jurisdiction from the Atlantic coast to the tip of the Ontario Peninsula, and north to Rupert's Land. That was clearly a separate parliament from the Upper Canada Parliament, in no small part because the MPPs came from French-speaking Canada East and English-speaking Canada West. Then in 1867, the new Dominion of Canada was created by the British North America Act, 1867, passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It split the Province of Canada into two new provinces, Quebec and Ontario, each with their own parliament. The Parliament of the Province of Canada was abolished. In addition to having a new parliament, Ontario has different boundaries than Upper Canada had. The Ontario boundaries run past the Lakehead (western Lake Superior) and north to Hudson Bay (now including what used to be part of Rupert's Land). So, in summary, the constitutional and territorial extent of the three provinces of Upper Canada, Province of Canada, and Ontario were all from different sources and different boundaries, each with a different Parliament. That's why it's incorrect to use "Ontario-MPP Stub" to refer to the MPPs of Upper Canada and Province of Canada. Hope you find that helpful. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 05:35, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
        • In answer to your question about spaces, we very rarely use spaces in stub templates (Ideally never). Having had a quick look over your discussion above would it be agreeable to have the templates as {{UpperCanada-politician-stub}} and {{ProvinceofCanada-politician-stub}}. These categories could then feed articles into either Category:Canadian politician stubs not ideal I know but it is the modern nation covering this area and iff they have over 60 articles in them we can create Category:Upper Canada politician stubs and Category:Province of Canada politician stubs. This will give a slightly bigger remit for the categories and more chance of them being created. Waacstats (talk) 08:17, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
          • In re spaces, I think I was confusing the name of the template with how it would display. I assume even if the template has no spaces, the stub would display with spaces when used? Question: why change to "politician" from "MPP" ("member of provincial parliament"), which is a more specific term, and is used in the existing Ontario MPP stub? That was the model I was familiar with. Have to say, seeing MPPs from say, 1800, listed in with contemporary politicians strikes me as odd, but maybe I just have to get used to that proposal. Query: how are pre-1776 American politicians dealt with? would a member of the colonial Massachusetts assembly elected in say 1760 be treated the same as a member elected for the first time this fall? The 1867 Act was a major change in our constitutional history, similar to the US revolution. There was political and social continuity in both cases (1776 and 1867), but a clear change in the constitutional structure. Does the treatment of American colonial politicians provide a useful analogy? I just skimmed the Massachusetts political stubs, and I didn't see any colonial politicians listed there. Do colonial politicians turn up in some other category? Oh, and one other reason why the Province of Canada stub shouldn't feed into Ontario, in answer to Her Pegship's question, is that the Province of Canada MPP/politician stub would include members of the Province of Canada Parliament from Canada East, ie the area that became Quebec in 1867. They should not feed into an Ontario category. Lots of questions, sorry. --Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 13:31, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
            • Thanks for the leasson! It seems to me that MPPs fall more accurately into Canadian government categories than into Canadian politician categories; I wonder if Category:Canadian government biography stubs would be a good place for an upmerge for these. "Upmerge" is a stub sorting process whereby a stub template doesn't have its own dedicated stub category; applying the template to an article places that article in a "parent" stub category (see Category:Canadian building and structure stubs for examples). This is usually done with stub types which don't have at least 60 articles that apply; we create the dedicated stub category once there are 60 articles or more. I hope that clarifies the process. Her Pegship (?) 16:34, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
              • Thanks for the explanation of "upmerge" - learn something new everyday! Now I understand the earlier question about whether there would be 60 articles; obviously, a new stub proposal has to fit into the established parameters of the stub system. However, I don't think that the Canadian government biography stub works for this proposal. When I click on some of those bios, the stub notice says that they are individuals "who held a non-elected position in the Government of Canada". That's not correct on two grounds. First, the purpose of the proposed new stubs is for individuals who were in fact elected. Second, they didn't hold a position in the "Government of Canada", which means the federal government, created on July 1, 1867. Hope you don't think I'm being nitpicky here, but it's important to get it right.  :) Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 17:53, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
              • From what I have read here, I would agree that they are politicians rather than government bios. With regards to why I suggested politician rather than MPP, my understanding is that MPP is used in Ontario like MP is in the UK or Australia where as the permanent (non-stub) categories seem to suggest that these politicians were either Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) or Members of the Legislative Council (MLC) rather than having two templates for each parliament I thought one template using politician and then any other politicians such as governors, prime ministers etc could also be included. Waacstats (talk) 21:57, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Speedy split of Italian actors

Another oversized category is Category:Italian actor stubs we already have upmerged templates and the following are all over 60 and therefore speedyble

Waacstats (talk) 17:29, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Split of Baronet stubs

I am sure Category:Baronet stubs was on the oversized list before my wikibreak. I propose a split by the Baronetage. I am not 100% happy with the names here, as I don't know if people may use the England template for an English person who has received a UK Baronetage so any help on these would be gratefully recieved.

Waacstats (talk) 17:49, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Split of Italian Roman Catholic bishop stubs

split of Anglican bishop stubs

Split of British Christian clergy stubs

More sculpture-stub templates

S1 speedy split of French politician stubs

1990s country song stubs

Diplomat stubs

Split of Cat:Sculpture stubs

Church-architecture-stub