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created without discussion, Courtland 00:20, 2005 May 13 (UTC)
note: shown on editing to be >47K (21 May)
I propose an Arch-stub for architectural terms and building types and features. Currently there are just over 50 stubs in Category:Buildings and structures stubs that could take this new template. These articles range from the likes of Archivolt (architecture term) to Folly (building type), and Bedroom (building feature). If anyone can think of a better name for it, or description of it, I'd like to hear it! Grutness| hello? 11:00, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
As a subcategory of Category:Musician stubs. Would it be enough of a distinction to pull out bands into a separate category? (They're not really biographical articles about musicians, so that categorization is somewhat ambiguous.) This could easily have several hundred articles (no, I am not going to list them all here). - Aranel ("Sarah") 03:54, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
The stub category is curently at 11 pages and growing. Before it becomes the next {{ bio-stub}}, I propose two subdivisions:
-- Allen3 talk 14:33, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
comment transplanted (and trimmed) from crater-stub discussion
{{ Bank-stub}} isn't just for banks; it covers any financial institution (insurance, stockbrokers, etc.). But {{ Bank-stub}} is easy to remember, so we stub-sorters use that instead of {{ financialinstitution-stub}} or something. A2Kafir 19:33, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
I would like to propose the implementation of Template:beer-stub (I created it already, but have not yet used it). This would be used in association with beer and brewery articles that fall under the WikiProject Beer. Would it include articles like Fermentation lock? Grutness| hello? 00:54, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I'm getting fed up with working out whether individual books deserve lit-stub or not. I'm sure that there are enough of them for a separate book-stub. Thoughts yay or nay? Grutness| hello? 12:44, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
The creation of this as a merger of Angel- and Buffy-stubs is done. See information below. — Courtland 03:07, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)
A part of the Transportation stubs. There are ones for trams, Vans and Railways. See Network Colchester for difficulties in catogorising these types of Stubs. TAS 17:08, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Proposed subdivision of {{ bio-stub}}.
I have been noticing a number of stubs are for people who gained notability for their efforts in the world of business (corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and the like). This stub category is proposed to hold such persons. -- Allen3 talk 18:36, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
See Opera-stub
not discussed before, there are numerous stubby weather articles without labels, or are labeled as sci-stub or geo-stubs
And then there's colour/color (hence col-stub!). Azure (color), Bistre, Brunswick green, Cerise (color), Cream (color), Fire engine red... Grutness| hello? 05:34, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I have remade the template per {{ metastub}} and created the stub category. I've also redirected col-stub to color-stub. Circeus 23:51, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
(Was {{
compu-prog-stub}})
The Computer stubs category is getting to be too big, and programming-related articles just don't fit into {{ compu-soft-stub}} or {{ compu-lang-stub}}. – AB CD 22:37, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
This would be a place for any geological features of the Solar System that aren't on Earth. Lots of them are already in {{astro-stub}} and the list will only grow. A2Kafir 01:45, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Dance etiquette, Dance marathon i would like to see dance go into art/artists, but i dont think others would agree.
see struct-stubs
Fantasy genre that is, in parallel to {{ sf-stub}}. BlankVerse suggested this (as part of the Cthulhu-stub discussion) and I think there are definitely more than enough articles to go into it. - Aranel ("Sarah") 01:30, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
This should probably be a more general clothing-stub rather than fashion-stub. BlankVerse ∅ 13:27, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
As a subcategory of Category:Math_stubs. There are >500 math stubs right now and this could likely attract >100 stubs of that mass. There exists a standard category Category:Geometry which , with its 28 sub-categories, would be the target for expanded articles.
Courtland 06:56, 2005 Feb 17 (UTC)
see UKW-geo-stubs
Based on the rate of potential classification to this stub I've found in going through -A- general med-stubs, I'm going to create this template and category and place it on the 'stub types' listing. This will be {{ medsign}} and Category:Sign (medicine) stubs. Courtland 18:50, 2005 Mar 19 (UTC)
I'm beginning to wonder whether a currency and coinage stub (money-stub) would make a good subcategory of econ-stub, for articles like Augustalis, Barbados dollar, Ducat, and Egyptian pound. Thoughts? Grutness| hello? 09:36, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
(Created) for New York City Subway stubs, which were being inconsistently sorted as rail or US-geo. -- SPUI ( talk) 03:58, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Another subdivision on music-stub. I didn't create it because there aren't that many opera stubs, and a classical-composition-stub would be more useful (there are much more of those, including operettas). Still, it would be big enough to be of some use to a WikiProject or other interested parties. Any comments? -- grm_wnr Esc 18:23, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
For drugs and other things related to pharmacology. I have already created the stub (and its articles), because I haven't seen the instructions before. If anyone objects or if there are procedural problems, remove it of course. The proposed template would be {{pharma-stub}} , as this is unambiguous and easy to remember. -- Eleassar777 21:29, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
How about {{ Poet-stub}} to start breaking up {{ Writer-stub}}? (Obviously some writers who write poetry would still fit better under writers in general.) And/or {{ Poetry-stub}} to start breaking up {{ Lit-stub}}? - Aranel ("Sarah") 00:20, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
A suggestion... once we've all stopped sifting through the bio and geo stubs, the next section that might be worth a look is poli-stubs. there are over 2000 of them. A rough estimate is that about 1/4 of those are political parties and movements, which could possibly do with their own stub category. other than that, it may be another case of sorting by country. Any thoughts? Grutness| hello? 10:20, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Currently consumer goods and services and combined into {{ corp-stub}} with the business entities that provide them. This proposed substub would allow for a division between consumer products and the corporations that make them. -- Allen3 talk 12:56, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
Ooops, I'm sorry; I only discovered this page after I'd created the stub. I did it because there was nothing appropriate for articles related to radio programmes (obviously). If it needs to be deleted until after discussion, could some friendly admin do that please? Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 12:23, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
As a way to segregate Category:Chemistry stubs into at least one smaller slice, I've created Category:Chemical reaction stubs and the corresponding template and listed this on the Stub Types page; I'll go about populating it momentarily. Any suggestions as to rewording of stub or category are welcome. Courtland 03:17, 2005 Mar 19 (UTC)
see Bank-stub
Another hopefully useful new stub template added: {{ Rocket-stub}}, for articles on Rocketry and/or Spacecraft. Grutness| hello? 10:51, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
We've got an Ancient Egypt stub, and there seem to be a LOT of Ancient Rome stubs, most of which are either getting put in the various european geo-stub categories or into bio-stub. I reckon a Roman-stub or Romanus-stub might not be a bad idea (not Rome-stub, just in case someone wants to sort stubs on the city. Egypt-stub, for ancient Egypt, was an unfortunate name). There might be enough for Ancient Greece to get a stub too, but Rome seems to crop up more often. Grutness| hello? 10:10, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Can we merge ( {{ RugbyUnion-stub}} and {{ Rugby-stub}} ) these into one Template:Rugby-stub? Category:Rugby union stubs is not that big (41 articles at present) and people who are unfamiliar with rugby (like me) are likely to find the distinction difficult to make. - Aranel ("Sarah") 00:31, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I know this was a case of be bold rather than follow procedure, but I noticed that most of the rugby-stubs were actually rugby league stubs, so I made RugbyLeague-stub, shifted everything over, then deleted Rugby-stub. All articles should say on them somewhere whether they relate to Union or League, so hopefully it will be obvious which of the two templates to use. If this was a bad move, and a merge is better, then merge is still possible from here. Grutness| hello? 09:17, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I mentioned this need for this here (came across a lot of these while re-sorting people stubs), but failed to notice there was a formal proposal process -- my bad. So consider this a proposal to retro-approve this, forgive my procedural lapse, and correct the various wiki errors I've made in creating the template {{ Russia-bio-stub}}. (But be gentle, it's my first time...) Alai 04:47, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Created to solve several multi-stubbing problems with eastern European history articles (one of which was listed as a history-stub, lithuania-stub, belarus-stub, ukraine-stub AND russia-stub!) and because template {{Russia-stub}} seems too broad to the editors. "Eastern Slavic history stubs" cover mainly three East Slavic nations: Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and, to a lesser degree, events related to the history of Lithuania and, sometimes, Poland (because there was an extended period when Poland and/or Lithuania politically dominated some of what's now Russia, Ukraine and Belarus). The stubs should apply to the articles related to the time when Russia, Ukraine and Belarus didn't yet form as nations of their own out of East Slavic proto-nation of the time of Kievan Rus and somewhat later. Also, some events of a later time are related to all or some of these nations and having an East-Slavic-history stub seems an approprate solution to the multi-stubbing problem. Russia-history-stub may or may not become a subcategory of East-Slavic-history stub. We should wait for consensus at Wikipedia talk:Russian wikipedians' notice board on that. Grutness| hello? 03:57, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC) and Irpen 04:48, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
Special case here. I did not know about this page until after I made the stub so this is more like a notification.
It is a stub for biographical articles about scientists
Rationale: There are currently lot of articles marked stub or science stub that could be classified as Sientists stub. -- LexCorp 01:11, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
see UKW-geo-stubs
Is it just my (admittedly warped) imagination, or do there seem to be a lot of "sexual practice" related stubs around? I'm not even sure what you'd call the stub category, since it ranges from Bondage mittens to child prostitution, via Chinese raping chair and Felching. Any thoughts? Name suggestions? Grutness| hello? 01:41, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Now that the geo-stubs are organised by country, I'd suggest that it would make more sense to organise buildings and structures by that method than by type of structure. It seems logical to me that someone living in a particular area would have more resources to find out about the structures in that area than they would to find out about all bridges worldwide, say. Given that there are about 500 struct-stub articles, I'm not proposing the large numbers of subcategories that there are for the now over 5000 geo-stubs, but having the following three might be very useful: US-struct-stub, UK-struct-stub, and Euro-struct-stub. Each of those would have at least 50-100 articles. Any others subcategories would only be considered by me if there were more than about 50 from a particular area (Canada might just scrape in, I'd have to check). Any thoughts? Grutness| hello? 11:45, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
A quick sample suggests around 170 UK, 110 US, and 60 European struct-stubs, with 160 from elsewhere. Grutness| hello?
I forgot to add - this doesn't mean that types of structures (such as the museum-stub) aren't also useful. There's nothing to stop a museum in London, say, from being both a UK-struct-stub and a museum-stub, in the same way that a Swedish writer might be both a writer stub and a Sweden-related stub. That way it would feed subcategories of UK-geo-stub, and struct-stub, and museum articles. In fact subcategorising them by region might make it more apparent what types of structures the stub articles are about (I'd be able to tell if there were lots of bridges or stadia, for instance) Grutness| hello? 22:26, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Update: As things stand, there's two days before I start on this... I've looked at all the articles currently in Category:Buildings and structures stubs and the breakdown is as follows:
No doubt there are others within the various geo-stub categories as well. With those figures, I intend to make a UK-struct-stub, a US-struct-stub, and a Euro-struct-stub, to be subcategories of their respective geo-stub categories and of the B&S-stub category. I'll also propose now (below) an Arch-stub for architectural terms and building types and features (see below). Grutness| hello? 10:51, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
(started life as proposal for {{tl|Thing-stub}
Icepick dont like the idea of this one, as a lot of random stuff will be put together, but where else do these things go.
As a subcategory of Category:Medicine stubs. There are >800 medicine stubs right now and this could likely attract >100 stubs of that mass. There exists a standard category Category:Medical_treatments which, with its child-categories, would be the target for expanded articles.
Courtland 06:29, 2005 Feb 17 (UTC)
I went ahead and created a new stub template and category to allow reduction of stub numbers in the television stubs category. The new items are Template:tvseries-stub and Category:television series stubs. My reasoning was that a) the Category:television stubs has >800 stubs in it and b) a large % of those stubs relate to television series.
see UKW-geo-stubs
see struct-stubs
There are now three and a half thousand UK-geo-stubs. There's also already a NI-geo-stub for Northern Ireland. A logical solution would be to make stubs for Wales and Scotland, to at least ease the strain on the main category (if there's a London WikiProject, then that could probably be pared off, too). Thoughts? Grutness| hello? 07:18, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
see struct-stubs
see UKW-geo-stubs
This page is for the archiving of information on the creation of specific stubs.
As it is historical, please don't add comments to the existing discussions. If you would like to discuss one of these, please do so on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Criteria and reference a section here if it is relevant.
Discussions leading up to creation of a stub-type are not necessarily copied here in their entirety. Information is preserved from discussions that relates to the requirements that the new stub-type fulfills, usage guidelines and position in the stub-type hierarchy. Preservation of full discussions still occurs; consult the Archive Index to find such full discussions and additional archived material not represented here.
created without discussion, Courtland 00:20, 2005 May 13 (UTC)
note: shown on editing to be >47K (21 May)
I propose an Arch-stub for architectural terms and building types and features. Currently there are just over 50 stubs in Category:Buildings and structures stubs that could take this new template. These articles range from the likes of Archivolt (architecture term) to Folly (building type), and Bedroom (building feature). If anyone can think of a better name for it, or description of it, I'd like to hear it! Grutness| hello? 11:00, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
As a subcategory of Category:Musician stubs. Would it be enough of a distinction to pull out bands into a separate category? (They're not really biographical articles about musicians, so that categorization is somewhat ambiguous.) This could easily have several hundred articles (no, I am not going to list them all here). - Aranel ("Sarah") 03:54, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
The stub category is curently at 11 pages and growing. Before it becomes the next {{ bio-stub}}, I propose two subdivisions:
-- Allen3 talk 14:33, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
comment transplanted (and trimmed) from crater-stub discussion
{{ Bank-stub}} isn't just for banks; it covers any financial institution (insurance, stockbrokers, etc.). But {{ Bank-stub}} is easy to remember, so we stub-sorters use that instead of {{ financialinstitution-stub}} or something. A2Kafir 19:33, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
I would like to propose the implementation of Template:beer-stub (I created it already, but have not yet used it). This would be used in association with beer and brewery articles that fall under the WikiProject Beer. Would it include articles like Fermentation lock? Grutness| hello? 00:54, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I'm getting fed up with working out whether individual books deserve lit-stub or not. I'm sure that there are enough of them for a separate book-stub. Thoughts yay or nay? Grutness| hello? 12:44, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
The creation of this as a merger of Angel- and Buffy-stubs is done. See information below. — Courtland 03:07, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)
A part of the Transportation stubs. There are ones for trams, Vans and Railways. See Network Colchester for difficulties in catogorising these types of Stubs. TAS 17:08, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Proposed subdivision of {{ bio-stub}}.
I have been noticing a number of stubs are for people who gained notability for their efforts in the world of business (corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and the like). This stub category is proposed to hold such persons. -- Allen3 talk 18:36, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
See Opera-stub
not discussed before, there are numerous stubby weather articles without labels, or are labeled as sci-stub or geo-stubs
And then there's colour/color (hence col-stub!). Azure (color), Bistre, Brunswick green, Cerise (color), Cream (color), Fire engine red... Grutness| hello? 05:34, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I have remade the template per {{ metastub}} and created the stub category. I've also redirected col-stub to color-stub. Circeus 23:51, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
(Was {{
compu-prog-stub}})
The Computer stubs category is getting to be too big, and programming-related articles just don't fit into {{ compu-soft-stub}} or {{ compu-lang-stub}}. – AB CD 22:37, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
This would be a place for any geological features of the Solar System that aren't on Earth. Lots of them are already in {{astro-stub}} and the list will only grow. A2Kafir 01:45, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Dance etiquette, Dance marathon i would like to see dance go into art/artists, but i dont think others would agree.
see struct-stubs
Fantasy genre that is, in parallel to {{ sf-stub}}. BlankVerse suggested this (as part of the Cthulhu-stub discussion) and I think there are definitely more than enough articles to go into it. - Aranel ("Sarah") 01:30, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
This should probably be a more general clothing-stub rather than fashion-stub. BlankVerse ∅ 13:27, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
As a subcategory of Category:Math_stubs. There are >500 math stubs right now and this could likely attract >100 stubs of that mass. There exists a standard category Category:Geometry which , with its 28 sub-categories, would be the target for expanded articles.
Courtland 06:56, 2005 Feb 17 (UTC)
see UKW-geo-stubs
Based on the rate of potential classification to this stub I've found in going through -A- general med-stubs, I'm going to create this template and category and place it on the 'stub types' listing. This will be {{ medsign}} and Category:Sign (medicine) stubs. Courtland 18:50, 2005 Mar 19 (UTC)
I'm beginning to wonder whether a currency and coinage stub (money-stub) would make a good subcategory of econ-stub, for articles like Augustalis, Barbados dollar, Ducat, and Egyptian pound. Thoughts? Grutness| hello? 09:36, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
(Created) for New York City Subway stubs, which were being inconsistently sorted as rail or US-geo. -- SPUI ( talk) 03:58, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Another subdivision on music-stub. I didn't create it because there aren't that many opera stubs, and a classical-composition-stub would be more useful (there are much more of those, including operettas). Still, it would be big enough to be of some use to a WikiProject or other interested parties. Any comments? -- grm_wnr Esc 18:23, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
For drugs and other things related to pharmacology. I have already created the stub (and its articles), because I haven't seen the instructions before. If anyone objects or if there are procedural problems, remove it of course. The proposed template would be {{pharma-stub}} , as this is unambiguous and easy to remember. -- Eleassar777 21:29, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
How about {{ Poet-stub}} to start breaking up {{ Writer-stub}}? (Obviously some writers who write poetry would still fit better under writers in general.) And/or {{ Poetry-stub}} to start breaking up {{ Lit-stub}}? - Aranel ("Sarah") 00:20, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
A suggestion... once we've all stopped sifting through the bio and geo stubs, the next section that might be worth a look is poli-stubs. there are over 2000 of them. A rough estimate is that about 1/4 of those are political parties and movements, which could possibly do with their own stub category. other than that, it may be another case of sorting by country. Any thoughts? Grutness| hello? 10:20, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Currently consumer goods and services and combined into {{ corp-stub}} with the business entities that provide them. This proposed substub would allow for a division between consumer products and the corporations that make them. -- Allen3 talk 12:56, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
Ooops, I'm sorry; I only discovered this page after I'd created the stub. I did it because there was nothing appropriate for articles related to radio programmes (obviously). If it needs to be deleted until after discussion, could some friendly admin do that please? Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 12:23, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
As a way to segregate Category:Chemistry stubs into at least one smaller slice, I've created Category:Chemical reaction stubs and the corresponding template and listed this on the Stub Types page; I'll go about populating it momentarily. Any suggestions as to rewording of stub or category are welcome. Courtland 03:17, 2005 Mar 19 (UTC)
see Bank-stub
Another hopefully useful new stub template added: {{ Rocket-stub}}, for articles on Rocketry and/or Spacecraft. Grutness| hello? 10:51, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
We've got an Ancient Egypt stub, and there seem to be a LOT of Ancient Rome stubs, most of which are either getting put in the various european geo-stub categories or into bio-stub. I reckon a Roman-stub or Romanus-stub might not be a bad idea (not Rome-stub, just in case someone wants to sort stubs on the city. Egypt-stub, for ancient Egypt, was an unfortunate name). There might be enough for Ancient Greece to get a stub too, but Rome seems to crop up more often. Grutness| hello? 10:10, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Can we merge ( {{ RugbyUnion-stub}} and {{ Rugby-stub}} ) these into one Template:Rugby-stub? Category:Rugby union stubs is not that big (41 articles at present) and people who are unfamiliar with rugby (like me) are likely to find the distinction difficult to make. - Aranel ("Sarah") 00:31, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I know this was a case of be bold rather than follow procedure, but I noticed that most of the rugby-stubs were actually rugby league stubs, so I made RugbyLeague-stub, shifted everything over, then deleted Rugby-stub. All articles should say on them somewhere whether they relate to Union or League, so hopefully it will be obvious which of the two templates to use. If this was a bad move, and a merge is better, then merge is still possible from here. Grutness| hello? 09:17, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I mentioned this need for this here (came across a lot of these while re-sorting people stubs), but failed to notice there was a formal proposal process -- my bad. So consider this a proposal to retro-approve this, forgive my procedural lapse, and correct the various wiki errors I've made in creating the template {{ Russia-bio-stub}}. (But be gentle, it's my first time...) Alai 04:47, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Created to solve several multi-stubbing problems with eastern European history articles (one of which was listed as a history-stub, lithuania-stub, belarus-stub, ukraine-stub AND russia-stub!) and because template {{Russia-stub}} seems too broad to the editors. "Eastern Slavic history stubs" cover mainly three East Slavic nations: Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and, to a lesser degree, events related to the history of Lithuania and, sometimes, Poland (because there was an extended period when Poland and/or Lithuania politically dominated some of what's now Russia, Ukraine and Belarus). The stubs should apply to the articles related to the time when Russia, Ukraine and Belarus didn't yet form as nations of their own out of East Slavic proto-nation of the time of Kievan Rus and somewhat later. Also, some events of a later time are related to all or some of these nations and having an East-Slavic-history stub seems an approprate solution to the multi-stubbing problem. Russia-history-stub may or may not become a subcategory of East-Slavic-history stub. We should wait for consensus at Wikipedia talk:Russian wikipedians' notice board on that. Grutness| hello? 03:57, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC) and Irpen 04:48, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
Special case here. I did not know about this page until after I made the stub so this is more like a notification.
It is a stub for biographical articles about scientists
Rationale: There are currently lot of articles marked stub or science stub that could be classified as Sientists stub. -- LexCorp 01:11, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
see UKW-geo-stubs
Is it just my (admittedly warped) imagination, or do there seem to be a lot of "sexual practice" related stubs around? I'm not even sure what you'd call the stub category, since it ranges from Bondage mittens to child prostitution, via Chinese raping chair and Felching. Any thoughts? Name suggestions? Grutness| hello? 01:41, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Now that the geo-stubs are organised by country, I'd suggest that it would make more sense to organise buildings and structures by that method than by type of structure. It seems logical to me that someone living in a particular area would have more resources to find out about the structures in that area than they would to find out about all bridges worldwide, say. Given that there are about 500 struct-stub articles, I'm not proposing the large numbers of subcategories that there are for the now over 5000 geo-stubs, but having the following three might be very useful: US-struct-stub, UK-struct-stub, and Euro-struct-stub. Each of those would have at least 50-100 articles. Any others subcategories would only be considered by me if there were more than about 50 from a particular area (Canada might just scrape in, I'd have to check). Any thoughts? Grutness| hello? 11:45, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
A quick sample suggests around 170 UK, 110 US, and 60 European struct-stubs, with 160 from elsewhere. Grutness| hello?
I forgot to add - this doesn't mean that types of structures (such as the museum-stub) aren't also useful. There's nothing to stop a museum in London, say, from being both a UK-struct-stub and a museum-stub, in the same way that a Swedish writer might be both a writer stub and a Sweden-related stub. That way it would feed subcategories of UK-geo-stub, and struct-stub, and museum articles. In fact subcategorising them by region might make it more apparent what types of structures the stub articles are about (I'd be able to tell if there were lots of bridges or stadia, for instance) Grutness| hello? 22:26, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Update: As things stand, there's two days before I start on this... I've looked at all the articles currently in Category:Buildings and structures stubs and the breakdown is as follows:
No doubt there are others within the various geo-stub categories as well. With those figures, I intend to make a UK-struct-stub, a US-struct-stub, and a Euro-struct-stub, to be subcategories of their respective geo-stub categories and of the B&S-stub category. I'll also propose now (below) an Arch-stub for architectural terms and building types and features (see below). Grutness| hello? 10:51, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
(started life as proposal for {{tl|Thing-stub}
Icepick dont like the idea of this one, as a lot of random stuff will be put together, but where else do these things go.
As a subcategory of Category:Medicine stubs. There are >800 medicine stubs right now and this could likely attract >100 stubs of that mass. There exists a standard category Category:Medical_treatments which, with its child-categories, would be the target for expanded articles.
Courtland 06:29, 2005 Feb 17 (UTC)
I went ahead and created a new stub template and category to allow reduction of stub numbers in the television stubs category. The new items are Template:tvseries-stub and Category:television series stubs. My reasoning was that a) the Category:television stubs has >800 stubs in it and b) a large % of those stubs relate to television series.
see UKW-geo-stubs
see struct-stubs
There are now three and a half thousand UK-geo-stubs. There's also already a NI-geo-stub for Northern Ireland. A logical solution would be to make stubs for Wales and Scotland, to at least ease the strain on the main category (if there's a London WikiProject, then that could probably be pared off, too). Thoughts? Grutness| hello? 07:18, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
see struct-stubs
see UKW-geo-stubs