Closed for additions - Courtland 02:19, 2005 May 22 (UTC)
Recently, before I was alerted by User:Grutness about this debate process, I created the stub category Category:Manufacturing stubs (with the template {{ Manufacturing-stub}}) and went ahead and categorized about 35 articles that I feel fit in the category. Perhaps a name change is necessary (to "Manufacturing processes"?), but I think a new category related to manufacturing processes (such as welding, casting, machining and the like) would be helpful. I expect to find many more articles that would fit. I believe that a category such as this would fit best under the {{ Tech-stub}}, but it may conflict with the tools stub category – what is a lathe, anyway? Sorry for creating this category without first suggesting it here; at least no one can accuse me of not being bold :). -- Spangineer ∞ 03:34, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
Renaming to industrial processes makes sense to me. The template could get renamed to Indust-proc-stub or the like, or just Industrial-processes-stub if that would be easier. How long do things stay on here until they are implemented? I saw that it says one week above, but some of the things above this one look like they've been here for awhile, so I'll wait for the go-ahead. -- Spangineer ∞ 05:15, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
Okay - manufacturing-stub is now a soft redirect to the new {{ Industry-stub}} "for industry and industrial processes". If the Industrial processes category's wording is anything to go by, there's also a clear division between industrial processes and tools. Processes are things like welding, smelting, and prefabrication; tools are lathes, gauges, and the like. Grutness| hello? 00:10, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Category:music stubs is getting huge (18 pages at the recent count). I propose some new subcategories:
Found about 20 of each in "A" alone, so meeting the 100 article requirement should be clear. Also, with stubs moved from {{music-stub}} into {{musician-stub}} and {{band-stub}}, these two might also need subdivisions soon, though I'm not so clear about which ones. I'm currently busy sorting generic stubs, but after that, I'd do the music stubs, and I don't want to have to sort generics that now go into {{music-stub}} again. -- grm_wnr Esc 23:47, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC) Addendum: {{album-stub}} is also a candidate for subcategorization. Even though I think most album article can be considered non-stubby if they have an infobox and a tracklist. And {{musician-stub}} already has some subcats (composer and opera singer) of course, but these are comparatively tiny. And a question: One-man bands/projects - {{musician-stub}} or {{band-stub}}? I tend towards {{musician-stub}}. -- grm_wnr Esc 00:47, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Another addendum: The more I think about it, the more I think that the present music subcat system isn't so good at all for stub expansion purposes. Who would know something about albums (in general) but not about bands (in general)? Maybe the most prudent method would be to merge all music subcats once more and divide along genre lines, since musical taste is generally very genre-specific.
Music >> genre >> (people/bands/albums/songs) this last stage might not even be subdivided
This would mean a lot of work though. -- grm_wnr Esc 01:04, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Well, here is a sketch of a possible new, genre-orientated subdivision (bold ones already exist, numbers copied from the last count):
Each of the genre-music-stubs could have subdivisions like unsorted-music-stub (in the form of genre-band/album/song/musician-stub), so we can preserve some of the effort already put into sorting, but these should only be created if a number (>50?) of those stubs exist, else they should remain double stub tagged with genre-music-stub and band/album/song/musician-stub. Musical instruments, unless they are genre specific, and general musical and compositorial terms would remain in music-stub. I'd go ahead and create this, but I want to ask for opinions first, and would also like to know if others would assist me with this project, since it affects nearly 9000 articles. (P.S. I know that technically, metals-stub should be a subdivision of rock-stub and rock-stub, electro-stub and hiphop-stub should be subdivisions of pop-stub, but I feel that would overly complicate matters) -- grm_wnr Esc 20:27, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Replace opera singer-stub with classical-performer-stub, a more inclusive category -- Wahoofive 06:50, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Since the genre-sorting would be an endless project for me alone, I went with my original proposal and created the following:
I'm now listing them in the appropriate places. Wahoofive's above proposal above looks good to me, but needs more discussion befoe implementation. -- grm_wnr Esc 20:26, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
This is not really a proposal, more sort of an announcement, but it fits here: Wahoofive, BaronLarf and I have cut the music stubs down to reasonable size. Some things, however, are still to be done:
What will remain in music-stub, then? Mainly composational techniques and terms (or should those be in classical-composition-stub?), and persons that are related to music but not musicians (musicologists and producers are the majority there), as well as concert venues, festivals, tours, studios, a handful of DVDs, and music schools plus the usual miscellaneous stuff.
After that, we should have a look at a subcategorization of {{musician-stub}}, since that one has grown quite a bit. My genre idea above is still the one I would favour, i.e. classical-performer-stub, rock-musician-stub, jazz-musician-stub, electronic-musician-stub and so on.
-- grm_wnr Esc 16:01, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I'd like to propose a new music substub, music-theory-stub. I'd say it'll hit the 100 mark, though not by much. — Wahoofive | Talk 04:15, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed a fair amount of computer networking stubs marked as {{compu-stub}}, but couldn't find a better place for them. Since Category:Computer stubs is very large, I propose creating a new stub category ({{compu-network-stub}}) for them (of course as a subcategory of {{compu-stub}}).
{{wireless-stub}} could then become a subcategory of it.
-- cesarb 01:08, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I just created {{ Electro-stub}} and got a message to say I should clear it here first. Eletronics is a large catagory and yet all it's subs fall under Technology. Eletronics is a sub-category of technology, like computing or can be made it's own category and things like radio comms, components, etc, etc could be subcatagories once the number of pure eletronics subs becomes large enough. I can see a lot of eletronics subs under tech-sub that would be better linked to the eletronics catagories. Sorry for taking the wrong path, I think I missed the few lines that mentioned about clearing it here first. Hopefully this can be solved to the satisfaction of all. -- ElectraFlarefire 09:55, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I've been starting to chip away at the massive bio-stub category, and I've found a few categories that sure would be useful. The first is a bio category for people that have to do with computers or technology. This includes programmers, engineers, or just generally recognized techies out there. Perhaps the category should be named a bit more broadly as tech-bio-stub or something, but there would definitely be plenty to go in there. chris hathaway 06:28, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
We have a WWI and a WWII stub, but nothing for the Vietnam-era stubs...putting them under "Military" seems a bit trite and is filling up that stub category, how about adding some kind of Vietnam stub?-- Sherurcij 17:11, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
I am sure that there will be enough WWI and WWII related stubs after any purge of hist-stub category. Many stubs would perfectly fit into the WW categories right now. I suggest to create a {{mil-war-stub}} ("This military and warfare related article is...") of which two WW stubs would be subcategories. If "mil-war-stub" is created as a subcategory of "Historical stubs", I think it would be appropriate only for a relatively modern military history. Anything older than roughly 150 years is more appropriate for national history articles. Irpen 17:04, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)
Just noticed there is already a {{mil-stub}} with 1000+ articles. Many of them are WW related. So I would modify my proposal. We could just rename {{mil-stub}} to {{mil-war-stub}} as per above creating a redirect. And then we would create WW subcategories of it. Alternatively we could keep both mil and mil-war stubs, making the latter one a subcategory of {{hist-stub}} because military history is definitely a part of history. The mil-stub would then just be used for articles about modern militarize. Irpen 17:23, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)
The Template:Papal-stub was created to deal with articles being written about previous Pontiffs of the Catholic Church, and also to deal with some articles that will eventually be written about antipopes.
the {{ reli-bio-stub}} has been created, and is available for use. I agree with Grutness that papal-stub would be a natural subcategory of this new stub category. Cheers! Vermi 22:05, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Presently, the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne and Todd McCaffrey is underrepresented in Wikipedia. A stub for articles related to people, places, animals, etc. related to Pern and the Pern books could encourage development. I would make it a subcategory of both sf-stub and fantasy-stub - Acjelen 16:00, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Some of the stubs that could go into a Dune-stub category. *[[Duke Paulus Atreides]] *[[Dune (TV miniseries)]] *[[Dune (fan fiction)]] *[[Dune: House Atreides]] *[[Dune: House Corrino]] *[[Dune: House Harkonnen]] *[[Dune: The Battle of Corrin]] *[[Honoured Matres]] *[[House Richese]] *[[House Vernius]] *[[Legends of Dune]]
We need something general like this to mop up various vaguely cultural articles out of the general stub category, and then we can subdivide it when and if the need arises. -- Joy [shallot] 01:41, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
There are plenty of these - for anarchists, groups, books, journals, events, ideas, etc. It would be helpful to have a stub category. -- Tothebarricades.tk 20:21, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
We have a stub for educational institutions, but as I sort I'm regularly finding stubs on educational organizations, philosophy, theory, methods etc. The Edu-stub seems to be meant for "universities, colleges or other education institutions". Maybe we could create\use a stub thats a little more inclusive. Either by opening up the Edu-stub or by creating a General education topic stub. Or maybe I'm misinterpreting the Edu-stub? Thoughts? Rx StrangeLove 04:32, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
This would be a subcategory of both corp-stub and lit-stub; it would cover publishers and publishing-related articles. A2Kafir 03:39, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Not exactly "newly discovered" but I made a new Saint-stub before I realized I should have asked first. Sorry about that, please delete as necessary. Kappa 23:10, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Probably redundant with {{ astro-stub}}. Found by accident at featured Pics candidates. Circeus 23:32, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
Probably not a bad idea, since Edu-stub is heavily populated. I just wish the creator of this one had made a category for it (luckily it was only on a couple of articles!) Grutness| hello? 02:38, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Created by the same user as the above. Grutness| hello? 03:41, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I know what you're thinking, but this is for Honor societies. Not sure of the necessity for this one, and the name will be very confusing... Grutness| hello? 03:41, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
...for Roman Catholic articles. Fits in well with the recently created papal-stub, and empties Christianity-stub a bit, too. Grutness| hello? 13:36, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
There seem to be more and more stub categories waiting to be discovered every day... This one is a(n unneccessary?) subcategory of Buddhistub. Grutness| hello? 23:57, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
...and another one (albeit a more useful one). This is starting to get out of hand! Grutness| hello? 09:50, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
...and another... Grutness| hello? 05:55, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I'm sure we could use this one. Circeus 13:54, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
This one's got a bit of a history. I discovered that it had been created two weeks ago as {{ carpentry-stub}}, with (first problem) no category for the stubs to go into. I created the category, and noticed the second problem. there is no Category:Carpentry. Then I checked what articles had the template, and there were - after two weeks - five of them. One was on vfd, one was about an article of furniture, and three were about joinery, not carpentry. So... seeing as there was a Category:Joinery, I reworded the template and moved it to its current location, and added a "Joinery stubs" category for it to feed into. I think it's probably a temporary measure, though. I doubt this will be very useful... Grutness| hello? 10:08, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Appears to have been created on April 17 as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject California State Highways. Currently has 17 entries. -- Allen3 talk 02:21, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
Ungrh. Created April 21. With Category:Stub. Misspelled besides. Two articles marked with it. — Korath ( Talk) 10:35, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
At the very least this one was populated and almost correctly listed (it should also be a child to {{ med-stub}}) Circeus 15:43, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
Another gov stub has just been added to the Stub types list, and a goody too. I think this should get plenty of use. Grutness| hello? 06:04, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Stub templates created and listed at Wikipedia:Template messages/Stubs/By region. No categories created yet for either template. -- Allen3 talk 11:15, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)
Created April 15 in connection with Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who. -- Allen3 talk 11:27, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)
Two new creations. Note has been sent to the creator. At first glance I am not sure that there is currently enough material to justify these stubs. Maybe a more generalized form covering all pre-Columbian societies. -- Allen3 talk 22:53, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)
Another new one. Had two articles in it (one of which was actually a SouthAm-geo-stub)... not sure how viable it is - I suppose time will tell. Don't think there's an associated WikiProject. Grutness| hello? 01:32, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
This could almost be useful, but might be more of nonsense. Circeus 23:21, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
A very useful idea, but why oh why did its creator link it back to Category:Stub??? Grrrrr. Grutness| hello? 07:12, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I didn't realise I needed to ask first. This stub category was created because Linguistics stubs and Language stubs were being polluted with idioms and word definitions. Frankly. most if not all of the stubs in that category ought to go to Wiktionary. By collecting them in one place, at least its possible to deal with them coherently. -- Diderot 23:35, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Any guesses what this was short for? Neither had I... Warhammer 40,000, apparently. Grutness| hello? 07:31, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
Another mysteriously arrived stub. Currently has eight articles, but then the entire Doom category only has 47, so the chances of this one ever reaching viability are slight, to say the least. Only found out about this one when it was listed on tfd... Grutness| hello? 00:47, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
Nicely made, it conforms to all the stub-type standards, just wasn't debated here first. Looks as though it will be useful - Morocco has quite a few stub articles. With the ten or so that the creator of it has added to the category and the 30 or so that were in the North Africa category it got pretty close to 40. It's probably worth mentioning that a couple of other countries in the area (Algeria and Egypt) are getting close to the bottom end of stub consideration (both have between 55 and 60 stub articles). Grutness| hello? 09:51, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
As above, except that there aren't likely to be more than about 15-20 stubs in the category. There are about 30 other countries with more stubs that have yet to be split off this way (in Oceania alone, French Polynesia has three times this number of stubs). No associated WikiProject, either. Grutness| hello? 00:54, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
Oh dear. Two major problems here - almost enough to list it in the "delete" section straight away. First, it largely (though not entirely) duplicates WWII-stub (the overlap is very significant). Second, the title of the stub does not indicate that it is about Nazi Germany during the 1930s and 1940s, and could accidentally be added to articles on neo-Nazism. This one, I'd suggest deleting. Of the three stubs that were assigned this template, two could have had (and now have) WWII stubs, the third was a germany-bio-stub Grutness| hello? 01:09, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
Very useful, but it would have been nice if the creator of it had let us know... Grutness| hello? 01:02, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
Created by an anonymous user and uses Category:Stub instead of its own category. There is only one article currently using this and it is under VfD. -- Allen3 talk 21:57, May 9, 2005 (UTC)
Looks like there's been quite an edit war going on with regards to the topic of Islamofascism. I hope it doesn't spread to stub-sorting too. Grutness... wha? 01:24, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
No articles have this stub message, and the category (for "Fortean phenomenas" (sic)) has some weird parent links. Already adequately covered by para-stub, which is only lightly populated, and therefore (IMO) this new stub is unneccessary. Grutness... wha? 01:24, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
One of the Australian city WikiProject stubs. However, both it and the WikiProject have been inactive since October. Nothing links to it besides the wikiproject. Remuel 22:11, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Nothing links to it and I think anything relating to the Quaker faith can be contained within the main Christianity-stub. Remuel 22:11, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Creator asks for the stub to be scraped and it wouldn't be more than a redirect anyway. Remuel 22:11, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Stands for virtual reality communities. The two pages that link it could easily be re-categorized under the compu-soft-stub. Remuel 22:11, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Another hyperspecific stub category. Not created by a WP:WSS (otherwise it may well have got the simpler name of stamp-stub). The category has a TOC template, despite being currently on just three articles, and unlikely to be on more than ten or twenty, let alone the 60-100 necessary to be a truly viable stub-cat. Grutness| hello? 08:42, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Closed for additions - Courtland 02:19, 2005 May 22 (UTC)
Recently, before I was alerted by User:Grutness about this debate process, I created the stub category Category:Manufacturing stubs (with the template {{ Manufacturing-stub}}) and went ahead and categorized about 35 articles that I feel fit in the category. Perhaps a name change is necessary (to "Manufacturing processes"?), but I think a new category related to manufacturing processes (such as welding, casting, machining and the like) would be helpful. I expect to find many more articles that would fit. I believe that a category such as this would fit best under the {{ Tech-stub}}, but it may conflict with the tools stub category – what is a lathe, anyway? Sorry for creating this category without first suggesting it here; at least no one can accuse me of not being bold :). -- Spangineer ∞ 03:34, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
Renaming to industrial processes makes sense to me. The template could get renamed to Indust-proc-stub or the like, or just Industrial-processes-stub if that would be easier. How long do things stay on here until they are implemented? I saw that it says one week above, but some of the things above this one look like they've been here for awhile, so I'll wait for the go-ahead. -- Spangineer ∞ 05:15, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
Okay - manufacturing-stub is now a soft redirect to the new {{ Industry-stub}} "for industry and industrial processes". If the Industrial processes category's wording is anything to go by, there's also a clear division between industrial processes and tools. Processes are things like welding, smelting, and prefabrication; tools are lathes, gauges, and the like. Grutness| hello? 00:10, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Category:music stubs is getting huge (18 pages at the recent count). I propose some new subcategories:
Found about 20 of each in "A" alone, so meeting the 100 article requirement should be clear. Also, with stubs moved from {{music-stub}} into {{musician-stub}} and {{band-stub}}, these two might also need subdivisions soon, though I'm not so clear about which ones. I'm currently busy sorting generic stubs, but after that, I'd do the music stubs, and I don't want to have to sort generics that now go into {{music-stub}} again. -- grm_wnr Esc 23:47, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC) Addendum: {{album-stub}} is also a candidate for subcategorization. Even though I think most album article can be considered non-stubby if they have an infobox and a tracklist. And {{musician-stub}} already has some subcats (composer and opera singer) of course, but these are comparatively tiny. And a question: One-man bands/projects - {{musician-stub}} or {{band-stub}}? I tend towards {{musician-stub}}. -- grm_wnr Esc 00:47, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Another addendum: The more I think about it, the more I think that the present music subcat system isn't so good at all for stub expansion purposes. Who would know something about albums (in general) but not about bands (in general)? Maybe the most prudent method would be to merge all music subcats once more and divide along genre lines, since musical taste is generally very genre-specific.
Music >> genre >> (people/bands/albums/songs) this last stage might not even be subdivided
This would mean a lot of work though. -- grm_wnr Esc 01:04, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Well, here is a sketch of a possible new, genre-orientated subdivision (bold ones already exist, numbers copied from the last count):
Each of the genre-music-stubs could have subdivisions like unsorted-music-stub (in the form of genre-band/album/song/musician-stub), so we can preserve some of the effort already put into sorting, but these should only be created if a number (>50?) of those stubs exist, else they should remain double stub tagged with genre-music-stub and band/album/song/musician-stub. Musical instruments, unless they are genre specific, and general musical and compositorial terms would remain in music-stub. I'd go ahead and create this, but I want to ask for opinions first, and would also like to know if others would assist me with this project, since it affects nearly 9000 articles. (P.S. I know that technically, metals-stub should be a subdivision of rock-stub and rock-stub, electro-stub and hiphop-stub should be subdivisions of pop-stub, but I feel that would overly complicate matters) -- grm_wnr Esc 20:27, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Replace opera singer-stub with classical-performer-stub, a more inclusive category -- Wahoofive 06:50, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Since the genre-sorting would be an endless project for me alone, I went with my original proposal and created the following:
I'm now listing them in the appropriate places. Wahoofive's above proposal above looks good to me, but needs more discussion befoe implementation. -- grm_wnr Esc 20:26, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
This is not really a proposal, more sort of an announcement, but it fits here: Wahoofive, BaronLarf and I have cut the music stubs down to reasonable size. Some things, however, are still to be done:
What will remain in music-stub, then? Mainly composational techniques and terms (or should those be in classical-composition-stub?), and persons that are related to music but not musicians (musicologists and producers are the majority there), as well as concert venues, festivals, tours, studios, a handful of DVDs, and music schools plus the usual miscellaneous stuff.
After that, we should have a look at a subcategorization of {{musician-stub}}, since that one has grown quite a bit. My genre idea above is still the one I would favour, i.e. classical-performer-stub, rock-musician-stub, jazz-musician-stub, electronic-musician-stub and so on.
-- grm_wnr Esc 16:01, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I'd like to propose a new music substub, music-theory-stub. I'd say it'll hit the 100 mark, though not by much. — Wahoofive | Talk 04:15, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed a fair amount of computer networking stubs marked as {{compu-stub}}, but couldn't find a better place for them. Since Category:Computer stubs is very large, I propose creating a new stub category ({{compu-network-stub}}) for them (of course as a subcategory of {{compu-stub}}).
{{wireless-stub}} could then become a subcategory of it.
-- cesarb 01:08, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I just created {{ Electro-stub}} and got a message to say I should clear it here first. Eletronics is a large catagory and yet all it's subs fall under Technology. Eletronics is a sub-category of technology, like computing or can be made it's own category and things like radio comms, components, etc, etc could be subcatagories once the number of pure eletronics subs becomes large enough. I can see a lot of eletronics subs under tech-sub that would be better linked to the eletronics catagories. Sorry for taking the wrong path, I think I missed the few lines that mentioned about clearing it here first. Hopefully this can be solved to the satisfaction of all. -- ElectraFlarefire 09:55, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I've been starting to chip away at the massive bio-stub category, and I've found a few categories that sure would be useful. The first is a bio category for people that have to do with computers or technology. This includes programmers, engineers, or just generally recognized techies out there. Perhaps the category should be named a bit more broadly as tech-bio-stub or something, but there would definitely be plenty to go in there. chris hathaway 06:28, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
We have a WWI and a WWII stub, but nothing for the Vietnam-era stubs...putting them under "Military" seems a bit trite and is filling up that stub category, how about adding some kind of Vietnam stub?-- Sherurcij 17:11, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
I am sure that there will be enough WWI and WWII related stubs after any purge of hist-stub category. Many stubs would perfectly fit into the WW categories right now. I suggest to create a {{mil-war-stub}} ("This military and warfare related article is...") of which two WW stubs would be subcategories. If "mil-war-stub" is created as a subcategory of "Historical stubs", I think it would be appropriate only for a relatively modern military history. Anything older than roughly 150 years is more appropriate for national history articles. Irpen 17:04, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)
Just noticed there is already a {{mil-stub}} with 1000+ articles. Many of them are WW related. So I would modify my proposal. We could just rename {{mil-stub}} to {{mil-war-stub}} as per above creating a redirect. And then we would create WW subcategories of it. Alternatively we could keep both mil and mil-war stubs, making the latter one a subcategory of {{hist-stub}} because military history is definitely a part of history. The mil-stub would then just be used for articles about modern militarize. Irpen 17:23, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)
The Template:Papal-stub was created to deal with articles being written about previous Pontiffs of the Catholic Church, and also to deal with some articles that will eventually be written about antipopes.
the {{ reli-bio-stub}} has been created, and is available for use. I agree with Grutness that papal-stub would be a natural subcategory of this new stub category. Cheers! Vermi 22:05, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Presently, the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne and Todd McCaffrey is underrepresented in Wikipedia. A stub for articles related to people, places, animals, etc. related to Pern and the Pern books could encourage development. I would make it a subcategory of both sf-stub and fantasy-stub - Acjelen 16:00, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Some of the stubs that could go into a Dune-stub category. *[[Duke Paulus Atreides]] *[[Dune (TV miniseries)]] *[[Dune (fan fiction)]] *[[Dune: House Atreides]] *[[Dune: House Corrino]] *[[Dune: House Harkonnen]] *[[Dune: The Battle of Corrin]] *[[Honoured Matres]] *[[House Richese]] *[[House Vernius]] *[[Legends of Dune]]
We need something general like this to mop up various vaguely cultural articles out of the general stub category, and then we can subdivide it when and if the need arises. -- Joy [shallot] 01:41, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
There are plenty of these - for anarchists, groups, books, journals, events, ideas, etc. It would be helpful to have a stub category. -- Tothebarricades.tk 20:21, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
We have a stub for educational institutions, but as I sort I'm regularly finding stubs on educational organizations, philosophy, theory, methods etc. The Edu-stub seems to be meant for "universities, colleges or other education institutions". Maybe we could create\use a stub thats a little more inclusive. Either by opening up the Edu-stub or by creating a General education topic stub. Or maybe I'm misinterpreting the Edu-stub? Thoughts? Rx StrangeLove 04:32, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
This would be a subcategory of both corp-stub and lit-stub; it would cover publishers and publishing-related articles. A2Kafir 03:39, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Not exactly "newly discovered" but I made a new Saint-stub before I realized I should have asked first. Sorry about that, please delete as necessary. Kappa 23:10, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Probably redundant with {{ astro-stub}}. Found by accident at featured Pics candidates. Circeus 23:32, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
Probably not a bad idea, since Edu-stub is heavily populated. I just wish the creator of this one had made a category for it (luckily it was only on a couple of articles!) Grutness| hello? 02:38, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Created by the same user as the above. Grutness| hello? 03:41, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I know what you're thinking, but this is for Honor societies. Not sure of the necessity for this one, and the name will be very confusing... Grutness| hello? 03:41, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
...for Roman Catholic articles. Fits in well with the recently created papal-stub, and empties Christianity-stub a bit, too. Grutness| hello? 13:36, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
There seem to be more and more stub categories waiting to be discovered every day... This one is a(n unneccessary?) subcategory of Buddhistub. Grutness| hello? 23:57, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
...and another one (albeit a more useful one). This is starting to get out of hand! Grutness| hello? 09:50, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
...and another... Grutness| hello? 05:55, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I'm sure we could use this one. Circeus 13:54, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
This one's got a bit of a history. I discovered that it had been created two weeks ago as {{ carpentry-stub}}, with (first problem) no category for the stubs to go into. I created the category, and noticed the second problem. there is no Category:Carpentry. Then I checked what articles had the template, and there were - after two weeks - five of them. One was on vfd, one was about an article of furniture, and three were about joinery, not carpentry. So... seeing as there was a Category:Joinery, I reworded the template and moved it to its current location, and added a "Joinery stubs" category for it to feed into. I think it's probably a temporary measure, though. I doubt this will be very useful... Grutness| hello? 10:08, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Appears to have been created on April 17 as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject California State Highways. Currently has 17 entries. -- Allen3 talk 02:21, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
Ungrh. Created April 21. With Category:Stub. Misspelled besides. Two articles marked with it. — Korath ( Talk) 10:35, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
At the very least this one was populated and almost correctly listed (it should also be a child to {{ med-stub}}) Circeus 15:43, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
Another gov stub has just been added to the Stub types list, and a goody too. I think this should get plenty of use. Grutness| hello? 06:04, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Stub templates created and listed at Wikipedia:Template messages/Stubs/By region. No categories created yet for either template. -- Allen3 talk 11:15, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)
Created April 15 in connection with Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who. -- Allen3 talk 11:27, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)
Two new creations. Note has been sent to the creator. At first glance I am not sure that there is currently enough material to justify these stubs. Maybe a more generalized form covering all pre-Columbian societies. -- Allen3 talk 22:53, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)
Another new one. Had two articles in it (one of which was actually a SouthAm-geo-stub)... not sure how viable it is - I suppose time will tell. Don't think there's an associated WikiProject. Grutness| hello? 01:32, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
This could almost be useful, but might be more of nonsense. Circeus 23:21, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
A very useful idea, but why oh why did its creator link it back to Category:Stub??? Grrrrr. Grutness| hello? 07:12, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I didn't realise I needed to ask first. This stub category was created because Linguistics stubs and Language stubs were being polluted with idioms and word definitions. Frankly. most if not all of the stubs in that category ought to go to Wiktionary. By collecting them in one place, at least its possible to deal with them coherently. -- Diderot 23:35, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Any guesses what this was short for? Neither had I... Warhammer 40,000, apparently. Grutness| hello? 07:31, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
Another mysteriously arrived stub. Currently has eight articles, but then the entire Doom category only has 47, so the chances of this one ever reaching viability are slight, to say the least. Only found out about this one when it was listed on tfd... Grutness| hello? 00:47, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
Nicely made, it conforms to all the stub-type standards, just wasn't debated here first. Looks as though it will be useful - Morocco has quite a few stub articles. With the ten or so that the creator of it has added to the category and the 30 or so that were in the North Africa category it got pretty close to 40. It's probably worth mentioning that a couple of other countries in the area (Algeria and Egypt) are getting close to the bottom end of stub consideration (both have between 55 and 60 stub articles). Grutness| hello? 09:51, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
As above, except that there aren't likely to be more than about 15-20 stubs in the category. There are about 30 other countries with more stubs that have yet to be split off this way (in Oceania alone, French Polynesia has three times this number of stubs). No associated WikiProject, either. Grutness| hello? 00:54, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
Oh dear. Two major problems here - almost enough to list it in the "delete" section straight away. First, it largely (though not entirely) duplicates WWII-stub (the overlap is very significant). Second, the title of the stub does not indicate that it is about Nazi Germany during the 1930s and 1940s, and could accidentally be added to articles on neo-Nazism. This one, I'd suggest deleting. Of the three stubs that were assigned this template, two could have had (and now have) WWII stubs, the third was a germany-bio-stub Grutness| hello? 01:09, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
Very useful, but it would have been nice if the creator of it had let us know... Grutness| hello? 01:02, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
Created by an anonymous user and uses Category:Stub instead of its own category. There is only one article currently using this and it is under VfD. -- Allen3 talk 21:57, May 9, 2005 (UTC)
Looks like there's been quite an edit war going on with regards to the topic of Islamofascism. I hope it doesn't spread to stub-sorting too. Grutness... wha? 01:24, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
No articles have this stub message, and the category (for "Fortean phenomenas" (sic)) has some weird parent links. Already adequately covered by para-stub, which is only lightly populated, and therefore (IMO) this new stub is unneccessary. Grutness... wha? 01:24, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
One of the Australian city WikiProject stubs. However, both it and the WikiProject have been inactive since October. Nothing links to it besides the wikiproject. Remuel 22:11, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Nothing links to it and I think anything relating to the Quaker faith can be contained within the main Christianity-stub. Remuel 22:11, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Creator asks for the stub to be scraped and it wouldn't be more than a redirect anyway. Remuel 22:11, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Stands for virtual reality communities. The two pages that link it could easily be re-categorized under the compu-soft-stub. Remuel 22:11, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Another hyperspecific stub category. Not created by a WP:WSS (otherwise it may well have got the simpler name of stamp-stub). The category has a TOC template, despite being currently on just three articles, and unlikely to be on more than ten or twenty, let alone the 60-100 necessary to be a truly viable stub-cat. Grutness| hello? 08:42, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)