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in the General Rules, it mentions that the bare stub template is deprecated: Wikipedia:WSS#General_rules
But the page curation tool seems to be making use of it. Wikipedia:Page_Curation#Curation_Toolbar
-- VikÞor | Talk 15:53, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
I stumbled across some old-format stub types as redirects (namely {{ foo-footybio-stub}} redirecting to {{ foo-footy-bio-stub}}). Sixteen such template redirects had at least 10 transclusions so I will add them to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects, but around 10 only had single-figure transclusions and 10 had no transclusions at all. I am wondering what people think about deprecating and deleting these templates - is it acceptable to replace the last few transclusions (and perhaps make no "meaningful" edit to the articles when doing so) and where would be the best place to consider deletion - Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion or Wikipedia:Categories for discussion? Or maybe the template redirects can even be speedy deleted under G10? Severo T C 09:48, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I've just noticed that 85.64.251.156 ( talk) has been changing the images in country geo-stub templates over the last couple of days. Usually this is a change from the country flag to the country flag with the country map in the background. Here's a typical change. Do people think these changes are a good idea? (I know that this change at least will be controversial - I was involved in an RfC about the flag of Western Sahara a while back over whether the page should redirect to the SADR flag or not.) Let me know what you think. — Mr. Stradivarius ( have a chat) 09:34, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Recently a bunch of stub templates was added to Category:Literature templates, so many that a subcategory just for the stub templates seemed worthwhile. But for all I can tell, stub templates such as Template:15thC-play-stub or Template:Brazil-poet-stub are usually contained in just a single template category, Category:Stub message boxes, and that seems hard-wired into the template. Is there a way to remove these templates from Category:Stub message boxes when I add them to the subcategory Category:Literature stub templates? Should they be categorized in both? Huon ( talk) 01:02, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
{{
asbox}}
, which places them in that category via its subtemplate {{
asbox/templatepage}}
. This subtemplate has no means for overriding
Category:Stub message boxes. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 12:28, 27 November 2012 (UTC)Please investigate Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub type sizes. There are a few issues here.
Dawynn ( talk) 10:25, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Is Aboh History complete without the Umu-iwalira people — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.46.246.49 ( talk) 13:18, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
E.g. {{ Hyogo-geo-stub}} is missing {{ Japan-geo-stub}} in its hierarchy and jumps straight to {{ Geo-stub}} which is the top layer. This seems to be throughout the geo stubs. This makes sorting difficult as the something that expands beyond Hyogo's borders, should go in Japan-geo-stub, not Geo-stub. Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 01:09, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Discoveries has not been used since August 2012, and most of the discussions stretching back another year had little or no discussion, often only when comments were asked for elsewhere (such as on this talk page). I think it's time to officially deprecate it and direct discovery discussions to Proposals or CfD as appropriate to the case. -- Qetuth ( talk) 03:03, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:WBGS-geo-stub. Since you had some involvement with the Template:WBGS-geo-stub redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 03:26, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
See Category talk:WikiProject Stub sorting participants#List on a category. -- John Vandenberg ( chat) 01:59, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Participants. Is done. Is good. John Vandenberg ( chat) 21:57, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
Today the template Template:Stub is suddenly appearing in the category Category:Stubs. The template doesn't appear to have been edited since Sept 2011, so something else has changed. Any ideas what's changed and how we can change it back? I'm asking this both at Template talk:Stub and at Category talk:Stubs. Pam D 23:03, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Template_talk:Stub#Proposal_that_.7B.7Bstub.7D.7D_should_be_added_with_small_.22s.22. Pam D 19:53, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
I'm no expert on Serbia, nor on all things stub, but I've come across a potential problem. Namely Category:Vranje District geography stubs which was created back in 2010 - AFAICT there's no such thing. There are two municipalities, Urban Municipality of Vranje and Vranjska Banja which together make up the city of Vranje, the administrative centre of Pčinja District which presumably is named after the Pčinja (river). But there isn't a Vranje District AIUI. Could someone take a look - you might want to double check the other Serbian district articles, to make sure they're being used in the strict Serbian sense rather than a less precise usage. Le Deluge ( talk) 02:33, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
It is a failure movie, the movie become eraculate comedy because of the action in dailauge motion, the producor and the director this movie has stop acting in new movie after this film — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.217.89.42 ( talk) 14:41, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Which comes first? I've seen it done both ways and would like to know if a standard format has been decided. Sasata ( talk) 18:57, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
{{Agaricales-stub}}
[[Category:Agaricus]]
or
[[Category:Agaricus]]
{{Agaricales-stub}}
It's not exactly a critical issue, I know, but I create a lot of stubs and would like to know if there's a preferred way of doing things. Sasata ( talk) 19:48, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Wouldn't they have been accepted by now? Panpog1 ( talk) 17:30, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
{{
sfp create}}
/{{
sfp bottom}}
); or as "do not create" (wrap discussion in {{
sfp nocreate}}
/{{
sfp bottom}}
) as appropriate. See
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/2012/August for examples of both forms. When every discussion on a month's page has been closed in this manner, the month's page may be removed from
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 21:09, 19 May 2013 (UTC)I don't know how many active participants WP:WSS has, but if anybody watches this talk page, just wanted to note that Category: Stubs had grown to over 700 entries in recent weeks. Anyone who stub-sorts regularly might want to check in from time to time to keep it manageable. Thanks. Woodshed ( talk) 10:10, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Wanted: Editors passionate about defending the standard practices of the stub sorting community.
I've been trying to clear some of the micro stub categories and found myself bombarded by several who feel that the stub sorting general practices should not apply to the stub sorting project. As yet, I seem to be the only voice arguing in favor of the stub sorting project. Please come voice your opinions.
Dawynn ( talk) 00:19, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi guys. I just came across Category:Georgia (U.S. state) legislative committee stubs which was looking a bit bare - I don't know if it's been officially approved but it seems a bit of an orphan even if it is filling up nicely, could someone have a look at it? Le Deluge ( talk) 15:16, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Recently, when I move a template to a new category, the articles tagged with that template still sit in the old category. Has anyone uncovered any nice ways to tell Wikipedia that it needs to recategorize / resave all the articles connected to a particular template? Dawynn ( talk) 11:57, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
The stub type sizes page used to update every month on the 10th. Has not updated since June. Does someone know how to update this page? Dawynn ( talk) 11:07, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
It has come to mind he who is not spoken should have a voice Although one might know or have known is no excuse — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1006:B12D:F201:0:0:0:103 ( talk) 01:15, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
User:Lugnuts has created several stub tags, in order to better sort Category:Canadian film stubs. While I agree that these tags were needed, instead of simply updating the tags for articles in that category, he has been adding them to stub articles for Canadian documentaries and television films, which are already tagged as being from Canada. I am looking for a consensus on whether it is necessary to add a second (and in some cases a third) stub tag, just to show what decade a film was made, when the article already has a stub tag in the same category that is more specific. Or, is it simply redundant, when an article is already tagged as a Canadian film and/or already tagged as a film from a specific decade, and the additional tag just adds the article to multiple sub-categories of Category:Canadian film stubs? Fortdj33 ( talk) 14:05, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
Right, am thinking of running a de-stubbing contest at User:Casliber/Stub contest (in the vein of the Core Contest), just as a one off alternative and see how it goes - similar prizes. Discuss on talk page. Cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 13:35, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
Just to let you know I have posted a question at: Category_talk:Indonesian_people_stubs#Only a man? X Ottawahitech ( talk) 05:22, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
...is starting in a few days - could benefit from someone keen on assessing articles to be a judge. Anyone wanna help judge whether articles are stubs or not? see Wikipedia talk:Stub Contest, cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 13:57, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
Alamukii is a traditional name that comes from the so called Yoruba entity in the 16th century.This names is invented by the great great grand father of the Alamukii family who believe in their faith of their only creator (God). Alamukii is just a name but it was associated with the believe and faith in the creator. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alamukii ( talk • contribs) 22:10, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
FYI, someone has proposed replacing Template:Incomplete ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) with {{ stub}}, see the TFD discussion for details. -- 70.50.148.105 ( talk) 03:14, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
Any thoughts on the best stub type for Ambassadors, High Commissions, etc - there are a batch of them in Category:Stubs at the moment and no stub types for international relation, diplomacy, etc. Some could be "{{ London-struct-stub}}" etc, or {{ job-stub}} for the Ambassadors but that doesn't seem ideal. Pam D 16:06, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Did any other stub-sorters know that there's an approved bot changing {{ stub}} to {{ bio-stub}} for articles identified as people? See Category_talk:Stubs#MoohanBOT and my comments at User_talk:Jamesmcmahon0#Your_bot_and_stubs. Pam D 14:28, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi all! :D
I would like to start, and then seriously expand on stubs for a few different mathematical functions, such as the Inverse Tangent Integral - which currently redirects to the Polylogarithm. The latter is seriously cluttered, and contains next to nothing about the Inverse Tangent Integral.
This function really needs it's own page, and if given one, I'm more than capable of fleshing it out quite a bit.
What should I do? Who do I ask...?
All the best!
Gethin
Dream Weaver1975 ( talk) 03:21, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
What does anyone think about changing {{ popstub}} to point to the newer version of catscan? Dawynn ( talk) 02:56, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi, there is a discussion about redirects to stub categories at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2013_December_25#CAT:Novel_stub. Your input would be appreciated. -- John Vandenberg ( chat) 11:14, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
As I understand it, since
WP:WSS/D was abandoned and the deletion discussion system was moved from
WP:SFD to
WP:XFD a couple of years back, a stub category and stub template should be discussed together at
WP:CFD. I've marked
Category:ISRO stubs with {{
subst:cfm}}
, but what is the template that should be placed on {{
ISRO-stub}}
to direct users to the CFD page? --
Redrose64 (
talk) 15:26, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
Can someone pleasew explain to me why the stub tags for Georgia (U.S. state) are all "GeorgiaUS-", not "Georgia-US-"? Since a GeorgiaUS-foo-stub is a type of US-foo-stub, it seems to me that "Georgia-US-" should be the correct form. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:10, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
{{
SouthCarolina-stub}}
or {{
Florida-stub}}
which are at the same level as {{
GeorgiaUS-stub}}
. They do not have "US" in their names; it's only used here because {{
Georgia-stub}}
doesn't refer to the U.S. state but to
the Eurasian country. Kind of like a disambiguator. So, by parallel, we have SouthCarolina-foo-stub, Florida-foo-stub and thus GeorgiaUS-foo-stub. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 23:14, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
Almost all of the Category:Chromosome 1 gene stubs are not stubs at all. They are well documented articles. They should be class=start or class C, and the stub tag should be removed. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 19:49, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
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I opened a thread on WP:PUMP, Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 13#The issue of permanent stubs, & would appreciate further comments. -- llywrch ( talk) 21:44, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
I have proposed that stub categories be changed to hidden categories, in line with other non-topic-specific/project categories. Please contribute to the discussion at Category talk:Stubs. Thanks. SFB 21:30, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
{{ 2010s-rock-song-stub}} and Category:2010s rock song stubs were improperly created as redirects and I'm not sure how to go about adding them as proper stubs or deleting them. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars Talk to me 16:17, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
{{
2010s-rock-song-stub}}
has been
fixed by
Fortdj33 (
talk ·
contribs) which I generally agree with under
WP:WSS/P#"Speedy creation" S2, but the cat doesn't yet qualify; I think that it's a
WP:CFD matter. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 17:06, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
I've found that {{
Iran-film-director-stub}}
and {{
Iran-film-bio-stub}}
, despite being closely related (to my mind, a film director is a specialised form of film person) are two levels apart:
Category:Iranian people stubs (which contains {{
Iran-film-bio-stub}}
) →
Category:Iranian artist stubs →
Category:Iranian film director stubs. Is it normal to have them separated like that? --
Redrose64 (
talk) 22:13, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
I have found that the stub tagfs related to US counties are inconsistant. Just to take California as an example, we have {{ AlamedaCountyCA-geo-stub}} (with the word "County" in it), {{ OrangeCA-school-stub}} (without the word "County", but still with the CA), and {{ Riverside-school-stub}} (not even a CA - ambiguous, for example, with Riverside, Iowa). I think we should go for a consistant set of names for all US county-related stubs - definitely with the state abbreviation, and probably with the word "County" (since many county names are also names of cities within these counties, such as the 3 mentioned above). And in cases which are ambiguous with locations outside the counties, we should probably update all references and delete the redirect. Anyone else have an opinion here? (Note that I'm excluding cities which are identical with their counties, such as San Francisco, as well as the boroughs of New York City.) עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:20, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
There are several stub categories being proposed for deletion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 April 28. Please weigh in with your opinions. Liz Read! Talk! 22:03, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
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Would this be helpful? I ran a report to collect most visited stubs on English Wikipedia in March 2014. Using seed category: Stub_message_boxes here are the results. Erik Zachte ( talk) 10:49, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Stub-sorters might like to have a look at this category. There are 967 pages at the moment. I keep an eye on one letter of the alphabet (P) and sort the bio-stubs there: other stub-sorters might like to adopt another letter so we can keep it sorted. "People stubs" is a pretty useless category, so they all need to be refined into narrower stubs - by nationality if nothing else, but there's usually something better. Pam D 08:54, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
Please feel free to comment at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 June 1#Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 June 1. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:19, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Do we still need Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types? I think we should depricate that page (and its subpages), for the following reasons:
Any opinions about this topic? עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:46, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
I'd like to revive this project. Anyone want to help?-- 75 * 19:45, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Layout#Proposal: Only one stub template per article. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 09:59, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I'm starting this discussion as a tangent to another discussion on the number of stub templates per page. I'm having it on this WikiProject talk page rather than there because I think the conversation is more appropriate here.
According to calculations done by User:Od Mishehu, we have 23,300 stub templates and 12,600 stub categories. The high number of categories means that each category is fairly small in size, but what results is a system that is ridiculously difficult to navigate. Even the relatively user-friendly list gets complex once you go beyond the top level of categorization.
If the purpose of stub sorting is to allow specialized editors to find interesting articles to work on, are we really making it easier for them to find the articles if they have to navigate over 10,000 different categories? I think we need to consider reducing the number of categories and stub types overall. The categories will be bigger but they will be easier to find. Harej ( talk) 03:30, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Per the discussion at Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 60#Stub adding bot, could a knowledgeable editor look at the new Template:Pageant-stub and determine what the appropriate categorization should be? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 03:23, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
Currently, the stub tags with the word "Saint" at the beginning is "Saint" some of the time, "St" other times:
This list looks like it's completely arbitrary which uses which form. We should either have them all renamed to the same form, of decide on a clear rule which shouls have which name, and rename them all to match. (A full list can be found at User:Od Mishehu/Saint.) עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:49, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
{{
StLouisCityMO-geo-stub}}
instead of {{
SaintLouisCityMO-geo-stub}}
but not {{
St.LouisCityMO-geo-stub}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 13:10, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
It's a problem I've had with articles too - and in the real world (I live in Saint Clair, which is apparently officially St Clair - or not, depending on your source). A few general points though:
In every case listed, though, surely it's simply a case of having a redirect from the alternative form. Grutness... wha? 13:06, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
Please note that Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types and its suybpages have been nominated for deletion. Feel free to participate in the discussion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:18, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
I've just come across the category
Category:Stubs about Wikipedia, because it's appeared in
Wikipedia:Database reports/Dubious stub categories today; previously it was absent. It was copy/paste moved from
Category:Wikipedia stubs on 30 June 2014 following discussion at
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 June 20#Category:Wikipedia stubs. The category is populated by {{
Wikipedia-stub}}
and so the cat name no longer follows the naming convention for stub cats. It concerns me that this naming convention was not respected, that this project was not informed, and that the participants in that CFD (
77.126.206.211 (
talk),
Sillyfolkboy (
talk ·
contribs),
65.94.171.126 (
talk),
RevelationDirect (
talk ·
contribs), and closer
Good Olfactory (
talk ·
contribs)) do not appear to be regularly involved in stub sorting.
As to the intent of {{
Wikipedia-stub}}
, it's clear to me that it's for articles about Wikipedia itself, not articles hosted on Wikipedia. It appears that some people - including the CFD participants - believed it to be a general-purpose stub template like {{
stub}}
, so I've cleared up
this lot (the
usage of {{Wikipedia-stub}}
will need checking again every few months}. That belief is echoed by the CFD nominator's rationale: 'Since all stub categories are Wikipedia administritive categories, and many of the administritive categories have "Wikipedia" in front of their names, this category looks like it means "Articles in this category are stubs on Wikipedia".' The fact that it had no subcategories, and therefore does not encompass "all stub categories", seems to have escaped notice. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 12:42, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
Background The CfD process currently requires a tag to be placed on category. I usually go further by tagging a WikiProject and the original category creator as a courtesy but this is optional at this time. Thanks for your input on the link above. RevelationDirect ( talk) 18:44, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
{{
Wikipedia-stub}}
. If the category is to be renamed again, perhaps the template should be renamed to match it. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 13:19, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
There is a large backlog of 700+ pages in Category:People stubs that could do with clearing as ideally there would be no pages in it. Just thought I'd bring it to your attention. Jamesmcmahon0 ( talk) 15:04, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
Please note that Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Complete template list is up for deletion; feel free to comment about it at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Complete template list. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:12, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
I noticed that the diplomat stub templates like {{ India-diplomat-stub}} add the articles to the respective "politician stubs" categories (here Category:Indian politician stubs). Is that appropriate? Is diplomacy considered a subset of politics? Personally I don't think that quite fits. For comparison, Category:Diplomats is not a sub-category of Category:Politicians. Huon ( talk) 19:09, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
{{
Diplomat-stub}}
populates
Category:Diplomat stubs, which is in
Category:Political people stubs; and we find a parallel as the templates and cats get increasingly more specific, down to {{
England-diplomat-stub}}
which populates
Category:English diplomat stubs, which is in
Category:English politician stubs. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 19:34, 5 August 2014 (UTC)Currently, for these tags, we have 2 basic patterns:
I think we should standardize all of these - probably accoreding to the first pattern, because of the stub tag name structure ({{ France-painter-17thC-stub}} is a type of {{ France-painter-stub}}, not of {{ painter-17thC-stub}}). Anyone else have an opinion here? עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:22, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
I'm not sure what triggers the rebuild of this page, but it hasn't updated since June. Can someone investigate and revive the automatic monthly build of this page? Dawynn ( talk) 11:31, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
I have just filed a bot request for a new task for MoohanBOT. MoohanBOT currently performs minor stub sorting tasks, retagging biography articles from {{ stub}} to {{ bio-stub}}. The new functionality I have proposed will enable the bot to sort articles relating to British, English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish people into more specific categories. If the bot is accepted and works as planned there is scope to expand this method to other geographic regions. Your input would be appreciated on the request page! Jamesmcmahon0 ( talk) 11:38, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
This CFD clears up a long-standing problem needing correcting, in that the Petersburg Census Area, Alaska ceased to exist when the Petersburg Borough was incorporated nearly two years ago. {{ PetersburgAK-geo-stub}} should be changed to reflect the current subdivision. I'll do it myself if necessary, but I thought I would offer notice here first. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 19:29, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
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Category:Lapland geography stubs was recently moved to Category:Lapland (Finland) geography stubs. Since Lapland is ambiguous, I renamed {{ Lapland-geo-stub}} to {{ LaplandFI-geo-stub}}, without a discussion (I considered it routine cleanup, but I should know better...), but now I am not sure what to do with {{ Lapland-geo-stub}}. It could be converted to a disambiguation page if we create a template for Lapland (Sweden), or it could be a general template for Lapland (region), but I know that it should not redirect to the Finland template. I am willing to fix/reverse anything I've broken. Any suggestions? Thanks, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 20:03, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
{{
Lapland-geo-stub}}
is a template: very few templates are set up with the intent of offering dab choices. One example is {{
sandbox}}
, but I really don't think that we should set up stub templates like that. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 14:07, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
I came across this and noticed there is a problem. This stub category is listed under Category:Israeli footballers and Category:Israeli football biography stubs. I think it should be removed from Category:Israeli footballers since it's already in the Category:Israeli football biography stubs subcategory. -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 22:50, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
There's a discussion about possibly altering Module:Asbox to add pages to a tracking category if any stub templates on them add more than three categories. If you're interested, please comment at Template talk:Asbox#Unlimited categories. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 23:16, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
I read the "Tools" section and there is nothing that makes sorting stubs easier. -- Mr. Guye ( talk) 00:07, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
The template {{
Belgium-law-bio-stub}}
displays the text "an Belgian" instead of "a Belgian". Could someone fix this please? Cheers
YSSYguy (
talk) 05:50, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Anybody else notice that no articles have shown up in Category:Stubs in at least two weeks? I did some poking around and I can't figure out why it's broken but even after I fixed a hundred or so, there are at least 1,000 unsorted stubs lurking out there waiting to be sorted. Help? - Dravecky ( talk) 10:23, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
{{
asbox}}
was recently converted to Lua (see
Module talk:Asbox), and its code is now impenetrable. I do not see anything above where the proposal to Lua-ise the template was mentioned, let alone discussed. We could revert the template to its pre-Lua version. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 20:17, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
table.insert(stubCats.v, v == '' and not p.demo and pageDoc.exists and
'Stub message templates with documentation subpages'
or not cat:match' stubs$' and {k = 'S', t = page.text}
)
$
- it's looking for the word "stubs" followed by a newline. The code here does not seem to be concerned with the decision whether or not to categorise an article; and the
amendment made by Codehydro did not touch those four lines, and the word "stubs" is not found there either. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 14:35, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
|tempsort=no
rather than the category's name. Blame the person who decided {{
stub}} shouldn't be categorized... or me for my botched consolidation of Asbox/templatepage, not Lua :P (Of the hundred of templates I've tested, I don't remember seeing a single stub template other than {{
stub}} that sets tempsort=no) —
Code
Hydro 19:28, 18 February 2015 (UTC)|tempsort=no
, not to place the category tag specified by |category=
(but not category1 or category2). When the templates were separate, that instruction was ignored on articles simply because the helper was not transcluded on articles. However, the unintended consequence of consolidation is the presence of helper code without transclusion. In other words, while great care was taken to include instructions from both the main template and the helper in the consolidated module, the module was missing an instruction that was not present in either template because the instruction wasn't necessary when the templates were separate. (Yeah, I just spent hours trying to find something that was not present in the original templates -.-;) —
Code
Hydro 21:16, 16 February 2015 (UTC)As long as the number of stubs in the category keeps going up, without the number of uses of the tag doing the same, I wouldn't worry about it. It went up from 289 to 410, while the uses of the stub tag stayed fairly stable. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:15, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
I've proposed a bot to notify users who use vague stub templates that they should use more specific ones. Liam987 (talk) 01:31, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Should the Category:Building and structure stubs be a subrtee of Category:Geography stubs?" I see inconsistancy here - for example, Category:Building and structure stubs is a subcat of Category:Geography stubs; on the other hand, Category:Alaska building and structure stubs isn't a subcat of Category:Alaska geography stubs; and upermged {{ Chad-struct-stub}} doesn't feed into Category:Chad geography stubs. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:21, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
Struct-stubs have long been part of the geo-stub tree for a merely pragmatic reason - a lot of "amateur stub sorters" mark struct-stubs with a basic geo-stub tag. As such, it was more practical to have struct-stubs as part of the geo-stub hierarchy, especially in cases where there was not a separate struct-stub category for a particular country. I'd agree though that it doesn't always make sense for struct-stubs to be considered part of a region's geography, which does imply naturally occurring landforms (but then again, towns and villages are geo-stubs, which suggests otherwise). Personally, I'd take them out of the geo-stub tree, and have any upmerged national templates feeding into regional/continental struct-stub categories and general national categories (e.g., {{ Fiji-struct-stub}} feeding into a Category:Fiji stubs and Category:Oceanian building and structure stubs) Grutness... wha? 00:43, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
I've proposed Category:Metropolis of Lyon geography stubs for deletion as a way of generating discussion over at CFD although personally I'm 50:50 either way. The category was created out of process by User:Arteronyl to reflect the creation of the Metropolis of Lyon when it was carved out of Rhône département earlier this year. The general rule is that French départements have their own stub types, but MoL has a special status as a territorial collectivity. This means that it's effectively treated as a separate département but for instance it has retained its old département number which it now shares with Rhône (69). It's a real grey area - I can see arguments both ways. At present there's only one article in there. Best discussed over at CFD. Le Deluge ( talk) 18:21, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
There's been a bit of discussion on an editor's talk page about whether adding {{ stub}} to an article is "stub-sorting". I don't think it is, and an edit summary of "stub-sorting" can be confusing when looking at an article's history - I've suggested that they use "stub tagging" instead. But I see that there is no definition in WP:GLOSSARY for "stub sorting".
I propose adding a definition to that Glossary:
Any thoughts? Pam D 09:56, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
A bot request, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BattyBot 43, has been open related to removing stub tags from all redirects. Community input is welcome at the request. — xaosflux Talk 19:47, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
This category has been well and truly overpopulated for too long (It had been just as big for a long time when I started my sabbatical from stub sorting about two/three years ago). I decided to have another look at it and notice that the majority of articles seem to have been turned into redirects, do we put stub tags on redirects or can we remove the tag from the redirect and therefore reduce the size of the category? My feeling is to remove them as redirects are not articles and therefore can't be stub articles, but am open to other suggestions. Waacstats ( talk) 21:21, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
Category:Overpopulated stub categories, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 23:34, 29 March 2015 (UTC) ~
Template:Eginyn has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. "Eginyn" means 'stub' in Welsh. -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 13:00, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Please see this discussion regarding film stub tags. Thanks! Fortdj33 ( talk) 18:55, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Is there a reason why this category isn't divided into subcategories by year, the way most (if not all) other song-related stub categories appear to be? The only subcats I see are Category:2000s hip hop single stubs and Category:2010s hip hop single stubs; what about songs released earlier than 2000? Erpert blah, blah, blah... 04:05, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
Hiphop-song-stub}}
. Then if you find that one of these templates has been used in 60+ articles, you can then file a request at
WP:WSS/P for the decade category. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 10:54, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
I run into this problem a lot and when I try to find the answer, I usually end up back here on WikiProject Stub sorting.
If there are already templates created that appear to be subcategories, what is the process to add those to the tree structure of a category page?
Example: On the category page Brazilian_building_and_structure_stubs, there are only two subcategories (in the Subcategory section), but just below that (under Pages in category "Brazilian building and structure stubs") are five templates which seem to me to be subcategories. Are they not? If they are, why are they not listed in the tree structure? And, more to the point, if there are articles which are already using {{Brazil-church-stub}} etc., will they automatically be moved up into the Subcategory section once …whatever needs to happen next… happens?
As I said, I run into this a lot and am more than happy to start cleaning this up when I see it. Please tell me that these templates do not still need to be vetted by the WikiProject stub process; they are already being used, so I assume they don’t need “approval”. I am not as keen to use my time filling out bureaucratic submission forms for others' approval as I am to just change a bit of code for category pages that have just gotten a bit messy but that have the new subcategories just sitting there, waiting to be used properly. This seems like it should be a very easy fix… I hope it is! —
giso6150 (
talk) 16:25, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
{{
Brazil-church-stub}}
, pages bearing this template appear in
Category:South American church stubs (which has 147 members) and also in
Category:Brazilian building and structure stubs (which has 287 members). The template itself is used on
44 pages which is below the 60 we require for a dedicated category. If the stub template gets used on more than 60 articles, you can go to
WP:WSS/P and submit a request to create the category as a S1 "Speedy creation". --
Redrose64 (
talk) 18:01, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
Three things:
It doesn't appear to me that Category:Machine learning stubs was created through the proper stub creation process. Is that the case and if so what should be done? Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 01:48, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
A new copy-paste detection bot is now in general use on English Wikipedia. Come check it out at the EranBot reporting page. This bot utilizes the Turnitin software (ithenticate), unlike User:CorenSearchBot that relies on a web search API from Yahoo. It checks individual edits rather than just new articles. Please take 15 seconds to visit the EranBot reporting page and check a few of the flagged concerns. Comments welcome regarding potential improvements. These likely copyright violations can be searched by WikiProject categories. Use "control-f" to jump to your area of interest.-- Lucas559 ( talk) 22:47, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
...will be run again in August. Signups are at Wikipedia:Stub Contest/Entries. Cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 22:04, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
See Category:KratOS stubs/ Template:KratOS-stub. A (relatively) new user created these and this "KratOS" thing is a non-notable topic anyway ( User:CompanyDude/sandbox2). Should the template be deleted? — Jeraphine Gryphon ( talk) 08:39, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Deletedstubpage. Since this WikiProject had some involvement with the Template:Deletedstubpage redirect, members of this WikiProject might want to participate in the redirect discussion if they have not already done so. Steel1943 ( talk) 00:45, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
Howdy all - I've been out of it for a while and just started re-sorting stubs per project guidelines. I came across Yanzhou (ancient China) and tried to use {{ China-geo-stub}} on it. When I went to preview the edit, I saw a message above the usual "This is a ___ stub" text which read thusly: "The stub template {{ China-geo-stub}} is deprecated. Please use {{ PRChina-geo-stub}}, {{ HongKong-geo-stub}}, {{ Macau-geo-stub}}, or {{ Taiwan-geo-stub}} instead."
I ended up sorting it into {{ Asia-geo-stub}}, but I wonder why there doesn't seem to be a geo stub type for a region which, at the time, was not the PRC or any of those other current political entities. (I did hunt through the list of stub types, btw.) I don't necessarily want to propose such a type, but I would welcome any explanation of the rationale for the current "deprecation". Thanks! Pegship ( talk) 19:45, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
Is there a way to archive old proposals that were already accepted and created?
I currently see proposals from 2013-2015 and some were accepted but not created, while others were created. This would help clean out the backlog of proposals. -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 22:15, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone tell me why we still have this process? Looking at the current (lengthy) page, there have only been a handful of proposals over the last few months. Most of these have come from the same users who then support their own action after the set amount of days have elapsed. I've never used this page, I just go ahead and create stub templates and categories as I see fit. The current WP:CFD process now takes care of stub categories if they're not needed too, so this seems to be WP:BURO. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 15:15, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
Please note that Category:Palestine stubs and its subcat Category:Palestine geography stubs are up for renaming at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 February 22#Palestine, as part of a wider nomination. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:25, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
A discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Definition_of_a_stub_and_automatic_removal_of_stub_templates includes a proposal to distinguish stubs and non-stubs by size, and may be of interest. Pam D 20:47, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
Do tags like {{ inc-films}} and {{ inc-video}} infringe on stubs, or {{ expand}} or the result of the deletion of start-class stub-like tags? -- 70.51.45.100 ( talk) 04:38, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
G'day, not sure where to bring this up, but anyway...; the Template {{ Australia-documentary-film-stub}} generates the phrase "a Australian" when placed in an article. When looking into this, I also found that {{ Austria-company-stub}} generates "a Austrian"; no doubt there will be others as well. Is this something that can be fixed without too much trouble? YSSYguy ( talk) 02:52, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi all - I've been going through the list of "missing stub types" and fixing any templates that are misspelled or malformed. I've just finished up with {{ South Africa-bio-stub}}, which redirects to {{ SouthAfrica-bio-stub}}, and now that {{ South Africa-bio-stub}} is no longer used on any article, what should I do with it? I can just remove the redirect code, if that's all that's necessary - it's not as though I'd be deleting a legit stub tag. Any advice? Pegship ( talk) 18:03, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
{{
db-redirtypo}}
; (iii) take it to
WP:RFD. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 09:52, 19 April 2016 (UTC)I'm sure I've read that any {{ stub}} tag or specific stub tag should be separated by a blank line above it, but I can't find chapter and verse to quote - not in WP:Layout, for example. I'd like to cite that when asking at Wikipedia talk:Page Curation if they could fix the software so that when an editor adds {{ uncat}} and {{ stub}}, a common combination, they appear on separate lines (and ideally with a blank line between them). It would save having to add a new line or two manually every time. Any thoughts? Pam D 11:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Is there a preferred method for proposing a significant number of stub-templates and categories? I suspect "drowning the proposals page in them, listing them one-by-one" isn't it, right?
I'm asking because the stub-sorting on Lepidoptera and everything downstream from there is quite the mess in its current state. As of my most recent check of Category:Moth stubs and its subcats, as well as Category:Butterfly stubs and its subcats, there are dozens of categories with over 500 articles, of which over a dozen has 1000+ articles. The worst case at the moment is the end-level Category:Gelechiidae stubs, which currently holds over 5500 stubs. Even leaving aside the taxonomically contentious cases, there's a lot that can be done to partially diffuse at least the worst of such categories.
(Not blaming WikiProject Stub sorting for the mess, by the way. The state of the stub-categorization rather closely mirrors that of the 'normal' Lepidoptera categorization, which is also messy. Is what happens when a Wikiproject has around 9000-30000 times more articles than active members, I suppose, as is the case with Wikiproject Lepidoptera. (90000+ articles, maybe ten active editors per year of which at any given moment maybe 2-5 are actually active at the same time).
AddWittyNameHere ( talk) 23:28, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Dravecky ( talk · contribs) died last Saturday, April 23. See his talk page for details.
He is listed as a member of this WikiProject. I will leave it up to his fellow WikiProject participants to decide when it would be appropriate to remove him from the list of active participants. His user page may be locked-down so it may require an administrator to remove him from the relevant wikiproject-participation-category. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 20:25, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
The Invertebrates part of the Science section of the stub-types list is growing unwieldy. The primary issue is the Insects group of stubs, of which especially the moths group is not. helping., but butterflies, beetles and some other insects play a role as well. The page lags something fierce on editing, even if just the invertebrates section (at least for me, but I'm on a fairly good though not top-of-the-line pc, so I'm probably not the only one) and we're reaching the point where some of the entries have ********** in front of them. That's ten bullets, for those not inclined to count 'm.
Would it perhaps be possible to move the Insects part of the Invertebrates section of Science to its own page and then transclude it onto the list, or can someone think of a different solution? AddWittyNameHere ( talk) 18:50, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
Sangwansunny ( talk) 18:02, 26 May 2016 (UTC)sangwansunny i just want to know that can i create a stub of indain kabbadi players? Sangwansunny ( talk) 18:02, 26 May 2016 (UTC)sangwansunny
Deletion discussion under way for a stub category which conforms to the standard tree and has 61 stubs. Input from other stub sorters would be welcome. Grutness... wha? 15:16, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
See here for a CfD discussion relating to a stub category. ~ Rob13 Talk 02:44, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
What are your thoughts on using the Category:1960s singles and similar decade categories as the basis for moving stubs from {{ 1960s-song-stub}} to {{ 1960s-single-stub}}? i.e. If an article is in the Category:1960s singles tree and has {{ 1960s-song-stub}} on the page, it would be swapped over to {{ 1960s-single-stub}}. I recently used this to populate Category:1950s singles, which was undersized, but it seems to make sense to more broadly use this to refine stub categorization of songs. I ran some pre-parsing using WP:AWB and an automated task to do this would result in edits to 1,612 articles. All the singles stub categories are sub-categories of the songs stub categories, of course. Yea/nay? ~ Rob13 Talk 02:34, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BU RoBOT 25, which is a proposed bot task that would make it easy to populate stub categories based on existing categorization schemes. See the songs/singles category above here for an example where this has already been put to good use. Any comments at the BRFA are greatly appreciated. ~ Rob13 Talk 23:34, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
Category:Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska geography stubs was nominated for deletion. I nominated a host of related categories along with it. See discussion here. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 10:25, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
Yet another CfD here. ~ Rob13 Talk 02:02, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
There's a current CFD discussion about how to structure Category:Noongar stubs within Template:Noongar-stub at CFD. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 07:17, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi all - the recent kerfuffle over the TfD/CfD for {{ Nelson-geo-stub}} and its category has highlighted a problem we often have at WPSS - keeping track of deletion nominations for stub types on those process pages. The XfD watcher who was most heavily involved in the discussions - User:BU Rob13 - has suggested something we should have probably done ages ago - getting WP:AALERTS messages posted here whenever such a discussion comes up. BU Rob13 has kindly offered to run a bot to tag all stub templates and categories that are in Category:Stub categories and Category:Stub message templates. All that's needed is agreement here that this would be a good idea. Please add a yay or nay comment below... cheers, Grutness... wha? 01:49, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
{{
ArticleAlertSubscription}}
you would add |maincategory=Stub message templates
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 20:47, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
The AALERTS is beginning to work at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Article alerts. Please note that tagging is still ongoing and likely to take until Thursday or Friday given the large number of edits, so not everything will appear there yet. I can tag again in the future if needed, but there shouldn't be a need; please tag new stub categories/templates as they're created instead. ~ Rob13 Talk 08:23, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
This is kind of a headache, but I assume someone must have discussed this before. What's the deal with project stubs vs. sorted stubs? I'm currently running AWB through Category:Stub-Class Australian rules football articles to get a sense of how many of the 13,174 stubs in that category don't have any sort of stub template on the actual article page. It's not painting a great picture so far. The pre-parsing is around half done and over 75% aren't in stub categories on the actual article page. ~ Rob13 Talk 22:45, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
This has been discussed frequently in the past. Stub-Class articles are not really connected with stubs in any way at all. In many cases, an article can be regarded as Stub-Class by a WikiProject while no longer being a stub, and vice versa, depending on a project's own definitions. Given that stubs are intended to work across the entirety of Wikipedia independent of individual subject projects, we have different guidelines for what is and isn't a stub to those used by the individual projects. Although 600,000 seems pretty high and some stubbing might be necessary, it's not too much of a surprise that there are some articles which are Stub-Class but not stubs. Similarly, there are probably quite a large number of stubs which are Start-Class. Grutness... wha? 01:10, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
I just edited the Nazi_Anti-Flag_Desecration entry, to the point where it may no longer be a stub.
What are the criteria to remove the stub attribute, and who does the removing?
Tatzelbrumm ( talk) 22:59, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
Pegship copied the notice that is at the top of this page (right above the first comment) to the bottom of the page a few months ago. [1]
Unfortunately, the use of "Add topic" or "+" (depending on your settings) "breaks" the intent of his edit, so I removed it. [2]
If too many people are ignoring the existing notice near the top of this page, we can ask an administrator to create an "Edit notice" that will appear any time a user edits this page.
Is there a big enough problem to warrant doing this?
For reference, here is a copy of the text that is at the top of the page:
copy of big notice that is at the top of the page
|
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NOTE: This page is not a forum to suggest the creation of articles. If you wish to create an article on any subject, go to Wikipedia:Articles for creation and follow the instructions there. |
davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 17:48, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
Stubs for creation (SFC) is a proposed task force for Articles for creation. SFC will assist new editors in creating useful stubs on notable subjects. Please feel free to discuss and expand on the idea at Draft:Stubs for creation. Cheers! -- 1Wiki8........................... ( talk) 08:10, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
I reverted an image change on the videogame-stub and inc-vg templates because it appears it was done for the purpose of advertising the video game Wikiproject. KATMAKROFAN ( talk) 15:18, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
Sound familiar? This stub type and category have been re-created in spite of consensus to delete back in May. It was not proposed or discussed here at WPSS (or anywhere?), it's incorrectly formed, and the dispute over its necessity is documented in the May discussion. There's also a -geo-stub sub-cat, which I've also nominated. This might have been done in good faith, but it's still unnecessary and incorrect. Please feel free to weigh in. Her Pegship ( talk) 15:08, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
{{
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic-stub}}
and
Category:Nagorno-Karabakh Republic stubs - are eligible for
WP:CSD#G4, so I've tagged them {{
db-repost}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 20:20, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
{{
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic-politician-stub}}
- neither of them with any prior request, discussion or approval that I can find. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 20:02, 1 October 2016 (UTC)I've come across {{ DominicanRepublic-tennis-bio-stub}} which looks plausible, but which seems to have been created out of process and is lacking a category - could someone take a look? The Evansville template has been relisted for deletion as noone commented on it before; any progress on the Frisia one (per above)? Le Deluge ( talk) 12:21, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
Template:Wildfire-stub appears in
Category:Stub message templates needing attention because it has |category=Stub-Class Wildfire articles
, which is not a stub category but a part of the
WikiProject article quality grading scheme. I tried
fixing it, but was reverted by
Zackmann08 (
talk ·
contribs). The thing is, although I am certain that the |category=
parameter is being misused, I can't actually point to where it's written down - it's one of those things that have always been done this way. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 07:17, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
A small challenge - sort this stub. I can't find an appropriate stub tag. Pam D 15:29, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
Category:Referees stubs was created a couple of days ago and needs some attention. Pam D 22:56, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello all, I have made a userbox that will help us sort stubs better. This userbox will keep track of all the stubs in the stubs category, and will change the color of the number at 400, 600, and 900 articles in the category.
Code | Result | |||
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{{ User:Yoshi24517/Userboxes/Stub Sorting}} |
|
Usage |
Let me know what you think. Ping me when you reply. Yoshi24517 Chat Online 21:02, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
Does anyone here have any pointers to the number of stubs associated with the USA, Canada, and the (geographic) British Isles (i.e. UK + IE). Pointers to the difficulty I have in answering this question are at User talk:Tagishsimon#Stubs. Input here or on my talk page would be much appreciated; thanks. -- Tagishsimon (talk) 05:18, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
Is there a reason why some U.S. states have bio stubs and others don't? My assumption is that there just aren't enough in some states, but I assume at some point there will be enough for all the states and I think it would help with uniformity of things. South Nashua ( talk) 21:42, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
As a heads up, I plan to nominate a bunch of unused stub templates in my efforts to thin down Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused templates. Keep an eye on the article alerts project subpage if you want to see those. ~ Rob13 Talk 11:19, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
When stub categories turn up on some of the problem-category reports I work on, it suggests that they've been created out of process, perhaps someone could take a look at Category:Sasanian people stubs and Category:Palghar district geography stubs? They look OK to me, but would be worth eyeballs from someone with more experience of stub cats for a bit of tweaking? Also Category:I-Kiribati sport stubs needs creating to fill a hole in the hierarchy equivalent to Category:Australian sport stubs, and Category:Korean television stubs appears redundant? Although there's lots of top-level Korea categories elsewhere, there's no Korea-stub hierarchy. Le Deluge ( talk) 16:42, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
A number of stub templates and categories relating to Punjab have been created by Peeta Singh ( talk · contribs), and I can't find the discussion(s) that authorised them.
I suspect that there were no discussions, as all these templates are underutilised (many have no transclusions at all), and the categories underpopulated (many contain only the stub template itself). -- Redrose64 ( talk) 21:00, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
To be sure, Category:Punjabi people stubs is overpopulated (1,674 articles!), and it may even be that the creator of these thought there were sufficient numbers to fill them, but unless someone has numbers to support that, I don't see a reason to keep them. Her Pegship ( talk) 16:53, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for the cleanup, As I was discussing at Bishonen talk page about all this unnecessary stuff created by Peeta Singh so do we need to go for a cleanup with WikiProject and Portal as well? GSS ( talk| c| em) 06:06, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi folks! Would anyone mind if I suggest using the Discoveries page for any new discoveries? It's been dormant since 2012, possibly due to little use, but I think it's a more appropriate place for these discussions (and easier to find). Cheers, Her Pegship ( talk) 17:43, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
The article Pale Township tries to use the stub Template:Yinmabin-geo-stub (currently red-linked). Additional uses includes:
All uses seem to be from 2016
Tewksbg ( talk) 04:06, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
I have no idea what, where or who Akwaibom is, but Category:Akwaibom-stub, Category:Akwaibom stubs and Template:Akwaibom-stub were created by Margaretver ( talk · contribs) without proposing them first at WP:WSS/P. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 15:56, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
{{
db-author}}
to it and save. An admin will delete it within a few hours. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 00:17, 7 January 2017 (UTC)Akwaibom
akwaibom
Akwa Ibom
AkwaIbom
Wikipedia:Categorization#Subcategorization says:
"Note also that as stub templates are for maintenance purposes, not user browsing (see #Wikipedia administrative categories above), they do not count as categorization for the purposes of Wikipedia's categorization policies. An article which has a "stubs" category on it must still be filed in the most appropriate content categories, even if one of them is a direct parent of the stubs category in question."
I noticed there are many articles which have the topic-stub category but not the parent category of said stub-category set. Hence I suggest that a script or bot may be written that goes through all the articles in Category:Stub categories and sets their respective parent category.
So for instance all articles in
Category:1950s science fiction novel stubs should have the
Category:1950s science fiction novels set.
There are some considerations to be made here such as how to best identify a stub-category's parent category and checking an article for subcategories of the identified stub-category's parent category. As an example of the latter articles in
Category:Science fiction novel stubs afaik wouldn't need to be added to
Category:Science fiction novels if they're already in
Category:1950s science fiction novels (or
Category:German science fiction novels)?
Note that once the stub-template is removed its category will be removed as well. I don't think we can ensure that the parent category is added when the template is removed by some editor so this is why I think we should get this working.
I'm not sure if I should also post this to Wikipedia:Categorization, Wikipedia:Bot requests / Wikipedia:Scripts#Scripting requests or any other appropriate place.
Could somebody here please get this going?
-- Fixuture ( talk) 17:09, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
Template:Translation-stub offers no clue to what defines a translation stub. Is it
or what?
-- Thnidu ( talk) 23:21, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
@ Fadesga and Redrose64: Thank you, more-experienced fellow editors, for your patience with my ignorant requests. I can use fairly simple templates and create simple ones, but I have no idea of the mechanics of building complex ones, including embedded templates.
Fadesga, I am indeed asking for something similar to the {{ book-stub}} advisory. Your answer
is exactly the kind of explanation I was asking for. Now I know, but what of the next editor, at my level of knowledge or below, who wants to tag as stub an overly-brief article about translat*? {{ translation-stub}} doesn't tell them (us) what it's to be used for-- nor, I suppose, does {{ translator-stub}}. It may be clear to experienced stub editors and sorters, but not to the newcomer to this territory. That is why I asked you to incorporate that explanation into the doc, and maybe your third sentence as well, the one about maintenance templates related to translation. Redrose64, are most or all stub templates so devoid of basic information as the distinctions I asked about in my original posting, above? -- Thnidu ( talk) 06:47, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
This doesn't appear to have a properly-created stub cat... Pam D 23:32, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
I see there's a Category:Frisia stubs which looks like it's been created out of process with one member as part of a wider creation of a new WikiProject - anyone want to take a look? Le Deluge ( talk) 19:25, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
I would like to create the interior designers stub category and then discuss the newly created category with active editors in the Wikipedia architecture category. I'd also like to use this new stub category for the the creation of articles on notable living interior designers. I have made four so far, one of which is awaiting verification. And one I have not yet uploaded. They are Liang Zhi Tian John Saladino Juan Montoya. There's also a few up already created by others and I'd like a way to group them and see that they get due attention. I'm raising this on the talk page prior to editing the article space of this page, as this is the first time I have attempted to go through this process. Many thanks. Edaham ( talk) 15:43, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi there. I have been going through several categories devoted to stub templates, for instance: Category:Sciences stub templates, Category:Literature stub templates, Category:Academic journals stub templates, Category:Cuisine stub templates, etc. whick is OK in itself.
On the other hand there is the very big Category:Stub message templates.
But there is not yet an intermediate category, say, a Category:Wikipedia stub templates by topic (or maybe a Category:Wikipedia stub template categories). This would make easier the categorisation and search of stub templates in general.
What do you say? Regards, -- Fadesga ( talk) 11:30, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
{{
Alien-stub}}
{{asbox | icon = [[File:Alien icon.svg | 35px]] | subject = Extraterrestrial being-related | qualifier = | category = Science fiction stubs | tempsort = | name = Template:Alien-sf-stub }}
template:Alien-stub is wrong. It claims to be an "extrateressials" stub category, but it uses the Science fiction stubs category. Since extraterrestrials are not necessarily science fiction, this categorization is wrong, or the description is wrong. It even claims it is called {{
Alien-sf-stub}}
which isn't the name of the template (it is a different template)
--
65.94.169.56 (
talk) 13:41, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
This stub template was deleted in 2014. It seems to have been revived in a confused form without any discussion earlier this year. The only article marked with it wasn't a stub, by the way, so it is currently unused and can presumably be speedied as the re-creation of a deleted template. Grutness... wha? 15:21, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
(Edit: Please disregard this message, this was the result of a typo that I have fixed) Hi, I'm working on the June 2017 proposal to add more subcategories to Arkansas Registered Historic Place stubs, and I'm running into a problem. Because many of the counties don't merit their own stub category, I decided it made the most sense to implement region subcategories, and then add all the counties categories to their respective region. Ultimately, larger regions would get their own category within the region, while smaller categories would rollup directly to the region.
As a particular example, in Northwest Arkansas Registered Historic Place stubs, Benton County, Arkansas Registered Historic Place stubs, Sebastian County, Arkansas Registered Historic Place stubs, and Washington County, Arkansas Registered Historic Place stubs would all exist, and then the remaining counties would just be tags that rollup directly into the Northwest Arkansas NRHP stubs category.
The problem I have is that I'm not sure how to get the smaller counties to rollup directly to the region without their own category. I used {{ asbox}} to try and create {{ BooneCountyAR-NRHP-stub}} but first of all the template page does not look like a correct asbox page, and pages tagged with this template do not appear on the Northwest Arkansas NRHP stubs page. I've tried looking at various other examples of NRHP stub categories with these sorts of regional/county subdivisions such as New York, Oregon, and Maryland, but I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. Could somebody please help me out by creating a couple of the missing county templates in Northwest Arkansas to give me an example to work from for the remaining counties? Fixing {{ BooneCountyAR-NRHP-Stubs}} and creating {{ CarrollCountyAR-NRHP-Stubs}} would be fine. Furicorn ( talk) 00:49, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
I was wondering if it is bad form to add an upmerged stub template to multiple stub categories? I was thinking {{
SouthCarolina-plantation-stub}}
might be worth adding an additional rollup specifically relating it to slavery, as the current parent is mostly about architecture. But reading through the guidelines, it was ambiguous what guidelines to use when deciding whether to add a stub to multiple stub parents. -
Furicorn (
talk) 21:22, 28 August 2017 (UTC|
{{
Plantation-stub}}
; and whilst there is a
Category:Plantation stubs, it is empty, and was created less than two hours ago by you, again without prior agreement. I see that you created a proposal at
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/2017/August#Plantation stub templates less than three hours ago, but seem to have assumed agreement and jumped in with an overcomplicated structure that is not yet demonstrably needed.
WP:WSS/P is clear: 5 days after listing it [at WSS/P], if there is general approval or no objection, go ahead and create the new category and/or template. You're not waiting for that.{{
SouthCarolina-plantation-stub}}
upmerges to
Category:South Carolina building and structure stubs, the same way that any of the following do
Hey, I was wondering if there is a tool used to generate or update the Oversized stub categories table? Or if someone has any guidance about the best way to update the table? This conversation is cross-posted at Talk:WikiProject Stub sorting/To do. - Furicorn ( talk) 02:39, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
I was trying to change {{ Estonia-artist-stub}} so that pages that transcluded it would be added to the category Category:Estonian artist stubs in stead of Category:Estonian people stubs. That didn't work, so I reverted myself. How should I have done this? Mduvekot ( talk) 15:15, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
The user massively destroy Hong Kong from country cat tree but did not understand how to create Template:China-gov-stub. Matthew_hk t c 09:24, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
Category:Churches has recently been renamed to Category:Church buildings. Any opposition to renaming its stub category tree to Category:Church building stubs/{{ church-struct-stub}}? עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:04, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
The parent category, Category:United States election stubs, is overpopulated, with over 1,600 members, and most members could be placed in a specific state, but there are only five states for which subcategories even exist (I'm only counting by subcategories of Category:United States election stubs, so there may be more, but since they aren't subcategories of Category:United States election stubs, they're useless because they're unlikely to be found.), so you're not even 10% of the way through on creating subcategories because an Category:District of Columbia election stubs, and possibly other subcategories for non-states, would also be worth creating. I've been working on moving pages from Category:United States election stubs and Category:Vermont stubs to Category:Vermont election stubs, and I'm not even a member of this WikiProject? Would some members of this WikiProject please help (with state subcategories in general, not just Vermont)? Care to differ or discuss with me? The Nth User 19:14, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
I'm trying to think of a good structure to subdivide Category:Spilomelinae stubs into more manageable groups of around 200, but the best I could think of was alphabetical categories by genus . Do people have any better ideas?
Cross-posted at Talk:WikiProject Lepidoptera
- Furicorn ( talk) 05:51, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
As some of you may have noticed, Wikipedia:Database reports/Dubious stub categories has grown today from 25 entries to 71. I suspect that this is due to the activities of a single person, Sawol ( talk · contribs) - I saw this problem coming, and a couple of days back started a thread at User talk:Sawol#Stub categories and moves. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 14:38, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
Stub templates that use Template:Soccer icon (from helper template Template:Soccer icon2) result in big white squares instead of having transparent backgrounds. If you have a different color set as background color instead of white, then this is very noticeable. Other stub templates (like flagmap stub images, etc) have transparent backgrounds.
Examples of this big white square can be seen if you change your background color and then look at Template:Mexico-sport-bio-stub, Template:Russia-sport-bio-stub, etc.
-- 70.52.10.192 ( talk) 06:06, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I have removed the stub tag from a number of articles that I expanded over the past few months. These articles are mostly bios of academics, artists and 19th century musicians. I followed the instructions at WP:DESTUB, however, I am not sure about how to handle the stub tag on the article's talk page. On the talk page, the article appears to be rated as stub→start→etc. But I think that only administrators can classify articles beyond stub class. I have stopped removing stubs - because of the obvious conflict between the status on the article itself and the talk page. I am reluctant to proceed any further. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. BronHiggs ( talk) 08:09, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Is anyone else not seeing [edit] links for each section on Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals? I've navigated to several other pages, including the sub-pages for each month, and I can see the section edit links everywhere except the Proposals page. Any advice on how I can get them back? Am I just now noticing something that's always existed?? Pegship ( talk) 20:03, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
{{foo))
and it may well be in a subpage. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 11:09, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
{{
archive}}
. This sets __NOEDITSECTION__
, which kills the section edit links because it's not expecting to be used on pages with ongoing discussions. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 18:48, 27 March 2018 (UTC)See Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting#Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting; anyone know what might have prompted this? Pegship ( talk) 05:43, 5 April 2018 (UTC) Pegship ( talk) 05:43, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#RFC to dissolve Wikiproject Stub Sorting. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 10:05, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.
Portals are being redesigned.
The new design features are being applied to existing portals.
At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{ Transclude lead excerpt}}.
The discussion about this can be found here.
Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.
Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.
So far, 84 editors have joined.
If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.
If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.
Thank you. — The Transhumanist 11:02, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
And by "large number" I mean "130+". Unfortunately, the entirety of them will need to be checked. Some of them are valid enough other than not being listed on the stub types list. Some would be fine as an upmerged template but have too few articles at the moment to be valid as stand-alone category; some have too few articles to be useful even as upmerged template. Another common theme is adding layers for the sake of adding layers, something they're notorious for even outside stub sorting.
See for example the tree down from Category:Diptera stubs. Yes, a containing/diffusing category can be useful, but layers upon layers of them for higher taxon ranks that shave off a very small number at a time while sorting the rest of the contents further down and down and down isn't useful. (And that it frequently mirrors the main category structure means zilch, considering Caftaric was highly active there as well) Even most of the few higher-ranked layers that seem useful due to number of articles in it aren't: that's just a lack of properly sorting the rest of them down. Which is another big Caftaric issue: creating layers both upward and downward and not bothering to actually sort the majority of relevant contents to their proper places. Or sorting them by diffusing the wrong category, sometimes. *sigh*
In regards to seems-useful-is-actually-full-of-not-properly-downsorted-stubs: Thinking of e.g. Category:Asilomorpha stubs here. With 194 pages it would seem valid, but other than the template and the article Asilomorpha, pretty much everything can be sorted into the superfamily subcats, which are also Caftaric-creations, but actually useful.
I've been building a table for a while to summarize the issues or absence thereof of each of their categories, but I can't seem to find the time or energy to wrap it up, so I'm posting this here in advance. AddWitty NameHere 19:29, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
There are some users who edit insect, arachnid, and arthropod articles, and replace the "official" stub category template with a new one that is not in the official list, usually with a slightly lower taxonomic rank.
For example, GTBacchus has changed {{ Tachinidae-stub}} to {{ dexiinae-stub}} and {{ ichneumonoidea-stub}} to {{ ichneumonidae-stub}}
Sbbarker19 changed {{ bee-stub}} to {{ sweat-bee-stub}}, which was created today.
Caftaric (since banned as a sock puppet) changed a lot, such as {{ arthropod-stub}} to {{ Springtail-stub}} for springtails.
What should be done?
(1) Nothing, it's not a big deal,
(2) Start using the new templates or non-official stub templates (if so, should they be added to the official list?),
or (3) Revert the edits to a template on the WikiProject stub sorting list.
The main thing I was wondering is whether I should stick with the official list for future articles. Bob Webster ( talk) 20:10, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
A rename discussion regarding Template:Asbox is currently open at Template_talk:Asbox#Requested_move_17_July_2018. If you are interested in this, please see the discussion there. — xaosflux Talk 11:46, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
I noticed that a bot was adding certain stub categories to Wikidata
I asked the operator why and they said per Wikidata Rules all categories are eligible for Wikidata connection. It just seemed a little weird to me since I've never seen one of my stub categories added to Wikidata before. - Furicorn ( talk) 16:42, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
Meindosan GMT 18:08 I think the page of Wilby,Northamptonshire should become a stub. It has nothing about its history and not enough information. -- Meindosan ( talk) 17:10, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
Does anyone focus on sorting
Category:People stubs? I've just suggested to an editor that adding {{
bio-stub}} was less than helpful as {{
stub}} would bring it to the eyes of a stub-sorter, but s/he then reasonably and, I find, rightly, queried my assumption that no-one was sorting
Category:People stubs. Looking at it, I'm delighted to see that there are only 6 in that broad category, so I guess someone must indeed be keeping an eye on them: good news, and well done whoever's working there.
I see we've got 1,411 in Category:British people stubs (more than the 559 in Category:American people stubs). The British ones start with initial F, suggesting that some good person is systematically sorting them: well done that stub-sorter! I'll try to chip in with some work on that category.
So this ends up by being just a heads-up to stub-sorters that even when Category:Stubs is empty there are a lot of nationality-bio-stubs which could usefully be sorted into more specific stub types: some of our colleagues are already concentrating there but there's plenty more to be done. Happy Stub-sorting! (@ Philafrenzy: for info) Pam D 08:58, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
Actors should have a stub type, there are a lot of them and it should be possible to make a basic article about and actor and mark it for more detail. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DemonDays64 ( talk • contribs) 02:41, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
There is a new hierarchy based and keyword searchable script for sorting stubs: User:Danski454/stubsearch.js ( doc). Danski454 kindly created it after I requested it, so I guess the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Hope this is as much use to you guys as it is to me. — Insertcleverphrasehere ( or here) 10:19, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
I've been working with User:Danski454 on the script, and i found out that Category:Chinese Roman Catholic diocese stubs was not turning up in the search because it was not added to the stub type category tree (this category may have been created outside the stub template process, it doesn't have a WP:Stub template, and once I tag all the diocese, it may be too small to legitimately exist). I was wondering if there is any patrol or tracking method for monitoring new stub categories that have not been appropriately added to the stub types tree? - Furicorn ( talk) 18:57, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
See discussion at Categories for discussion under Category:Hip hop song stubs. Her Pegship ( speak) 23:38, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
See discussion of stub category at CfD. Her Pegship ( speak) 23:39, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you all know I made a request at the meta-wiki community wishlist survey earlier this month to create HotCat-like functionality for stub templates in case you are interested in voting. - Furicorn ( talk) 03:16, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
There is an RfC concerning stub categories and stub templates at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion#RFC: Move stubtypes (and categories populated by templates currently on TFD) to TFD. Please discuss there. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 11:10, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
While going through stubs to sort, I came across AMD Platform Security Processor. I didn't think it was a stub, and would have manually removed the stub template, but I was inspired to write a script to do it for me. The result: De-Stub.js, a script to remove stub templates from pages. I thought the people involved in this wikiproject might be interested in trying it out. Let me know if you have any questions. -- DannyS712 ( talk) 09:25, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
I created Category:Civil rights movement stubs without noticing the "Please propose new stub templates and categories here before creation". statement. What should I do to make sure everything is okay? Mitchumch ( talk) 16:41, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
{{
db-author}}
on both the cat page and the stub template. If you do succeed in finding 57 more, we will need to look at renaming
Template:Civil Rights Movement-stub which is not according to convention. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 00:15, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
split from previous section for clarity
|category=
parameter looks correct, but actually contains an invisible character (usually a
left-to-right mark) immediately after the category name
|category=
param, click the mouse. Then press the ← Backspace key sufficient times to remove the last letter. Then retype the letter. Do this also for |category1=
and |category2=
if present, then save.I've found
Category:Six Flags stubs and {{
Six-Flags-stub}}
, both created by
99721829Max (
talk ·
contribs) about a week ago, but I can find no evidence that they were proposed beforehand, let alone approved for creation. With only three articles, the potential for growth seems remote. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 19:40, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
{{
SixFlags-stub}}
, since it isn't a subtype of {{
Flags-stub}}
.
עוד מישהו
Od Mishehu 15:10, 8 April 2019 (UTC)I came across {{ Nepalese-business-bio-stub}} and the corresponding Category:Nepalese business biography stubs which I suspect were created out of process. I've tidied up the cat which only has one member but I can see scope for expansion, my instinct is to just leave it but I thought I'd raise it here. Le Deluge ( talk) 13:41, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
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in the General Rules, it mentions that the bare stub template is deprecated: Wikipedia:WSS#General_rules
But the page curation tool seems to be making use of it. Wikipedia:Page_Curation#Curation_Toolbar
-- VikÞor | Talk 15:53, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
I stumbled across some old-format stub types as redirects (namely {{ foo-footybio-stub}} redirecting to {{ foo-footy-bio-stub}}). Sixteen such template redirects had at least 10 transclusions so I will add them to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects, but around 10 only had single-figure transclusions and 10 had no transclusions at all. I am wondering what people think about deprecating and deleting these templates - is it acceptable to replace the last few transclusions (and perhaps make no "meaningful" edit to the articles when doing so) and where would be the best place to consider deletion - Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion or Wikipedia:Categories for discussion? Or maybe the template redirects can even be speedy deleted under G10? Severo T C 09:48, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I've just noticed that 85.64.251.156 ( talk) has been changing the images in country geo-stub templates over the last couple of days. Usually this is a change from the country flag to the country flag with the country map in the background. Here's a typical change. Do people think these changes are a good idea? (I know that this change at least will be controversial - I was involved in an RfC about the flag of Western Sahara a while back over whether the page should redirect to the SADR flag or not.) Let me know what you think. — Mr. Stradivarius ( have a chat) 09:34, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Recently a bunch of stub templates was added to Category:Literature templates, so many that a subcategory just for the stub templates seemed worthwhile. But for all I can tell, stub templates such as Template:15thC-play-stub or Template:Brazil-poet-stub are usually contained in just a single template category, Category:Stub message boxes, and that seems hard-wired into the template. Is there a way to remove these templates from Category:Stub message boxes when I add them to the subcategory Category:Literature stub templates? Should they be categorized in both? Huon ( talk) 01:02, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
{{
asbox}}
, which places them in that category via its subtemplate {{
asbox/templatepage}}
. This subtemplate has no means for overriding
Category:Stub message boxes. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 12:28, 27 November 2012 (UTC)Please investigate Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub type sizes. There are a few issues here.
Dawynn ( talk) 10:25, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Is Aboh History complete without the Umu-iwalira people — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.46.246.49 ( talk) 13:18, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
E.g. {{ Hyogo-geo-stub}} is missing {{ Japan-geo-stub}} in its hierarchy and jumps straight to {{ Geo-stub}} which is the top layer. This seems to be throughout the geo stubs. This makes sorting difficult as the something that expands beyond Hyogo's borders, should go in Japan-geo-stub, not Geo-stub. Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 01:09, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Discoveries has not been used since August 2012, and most of the discussions stretching back another year had little or no discussion, often only when comments were asked for elsewhere (such as on this talk page). I think it's time to officially deprecate it and direct discovery discussions to Proposals or CfD as appropriate to the case. -- Qetuth ( talk) 03:03, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:WBGS-geo-stub. Since you had some involvement with the Template:WBGS-geo-stub redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). -- 65.92.180.137 ( talk) 03:26, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
See Category talk:WikiProject Stub sorting participants#List on a category. -- John Vandenberg ( chat) 01:59, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Participants. Is done. Is good. John Vandenberg ( chat) 21:57, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
Today the template Template:Stub is suddenly appearing in the category Category:Stubs. The template doesn't appear to have been edited since Sept 2011, so something else has changed. Any ideas what's changed and how we can change it back? I'm asking this both at Template talk:Stub and at Category talk:Stubs. Pam D 23:03, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Template_talk:Stub#Proposal_that_.7B.7Bstub.7D.7D_should_be_added_with_small_.22s.22. Pam D 19:53, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
I'm no expert on Serbia, nor on all things stub, but I've come across a potential problem. Namely Category:Vranje District geography stubs which was created back in 2010 - AFAICT there's no such thing. There are two municipalities, Urban Municipality of Vranje and Vranjska Banja which together make up the city of Vranje, the administrative centre of Pčinja District which presumably is named after the Pčinja (river). But there isn't a Vranje District AIUI. Could someone take a look - you might want to double check the other Serbian district articles, to make sure they're being used in the strict Serbian sense rather than a less precise usage. Le Deluge ( talk) 02:33, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
It is a failure movie, the movie become eraculate comedy because of the action in dailauge motion, the producor and the director this movie has stop acting in new movie after this film — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.217.89.42 ( talk) 14:41, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Which comes first? I've seen it done both ways and would like to know if a standard format has been decided. Sasata ( talk) 18:57, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
{{Agaricales-stub}}
[[Category:Agaricus]]
or
[[Category:Agaricus]]
{{Agaricales-stub}}
It's not exactly a critical issue, I know, but I create a lot of stubs and would like to know if there's a preferred way of doing things. Sasata ( talk) 19:48, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Wouldn't they have been accepted by now? Panpog1 ( talk) 17:30, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
{{
sfp create}}
/{{
sfp bottom}}
); or as "do not create" (wrap discussion in {{
sfp nocreate}}
/{{
sfp bottom}}
) as appropriate. See
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/2012/August for examples of both forms. When every discussion on a month's page has been closed in this manner, the month's page may be removed from
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 21:09, 19 May 2013 (UTC)I don't know how many active participants WP:WSS has, but if anybody watches this talk page, just wanted to note that Category: Stubs had grown to over 700 entries in recent weeks. Anyone who stub-sorts regularly might want to check in from time to time to keep it manageable. Thanks. Woodshed ( talk) 10:10, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Wanted: Editors passionate about defending the standard practices of the stub sorting community.
I've been trying to clear some of the micro stub categories and found myself bombarded by several who feel that the stub sorting general practices should not apply to the stub sorting project. As yet, I seem to be the only voice arguing in favor of the stub sorting project. Please come voice your opinions.
Dawynn ( talk) 00:19, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi guys. I just came across Category:Georgia (U.S. state) legislative committee stubs which was looking a bit bare - I don't know if it's been officially approved but it seems a bit of an orphan even if it is filling up nicely, could someone have a look at it? Le Deluge ( talk) 15:16, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Recently, when I move a template to a new category, the articles tagged with that template still sit in the old category. Has anyone uncovered any nice ways to tell Wikipedia that it needs to recategorize / resave all the articles connected to a particular template? Dawynn ( talk) 11:57, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
The stub type sizes page used to update every month on the 10th. Has not updated since June. Does someone know how to update this page? Dawynn ( talk) 11:07, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
It has come to mind he who is not spoken should have a voice Although one might know or have known is no excuse — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1006:B12D:F201:0:0:0:103 ( talk) 01:15, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
User:Lugnuts has created several stub tags, in order to better sort Category:Canadian film stubs. While I agree that these tags were needed, instead of simply updating the tags for articles in that category, he has been adding them to stub articles for Canadian documentaries and television films, which are already tagged as being from Canada. I am looking for a consensus on whether it is necessary to add a second (and in some cases a third) stub tag, just to show what decade a film was made, when the article already has a stub tag in the same category that is more specific. Or, is it simply redundant, when an article is already tagged as a Canadian film and/or already tagged as a film from a specific decade, and the additional tag just adds the article to multiple sub-categories of Category:Canadian film stubs? Fortdj33 ( talk) 14:05, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
Right, am thinking of running a de-stubbing contest at User:Casliber/Stub contest (in the vein of the Core Contest), just as a one off alternative and see how it goes - similar prizes. Discuss on talk page. Cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 13:35, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
Just to let you know I have posted a question at: Category_talk:Indonesian_people_stubs#Only a man? X Ottawahitech ( talk) 05:22, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
...is starting in a few days - could benefit from someone keen on assessing articles to be a judge. Anyone wanna help judge whether articles are stubs or not? see Wikipedia talk:Stub Contest, cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 13:57, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
Alamukii is a traditional name that comes from the so called Yoruba entity in the 16th century.This names is invented by the great great grand father of the Alamukii family who believe in their faith of their only creator (God). Alamukii is just a name but it was associated with the believe and faith in the creator. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alamukii ( talk • contribs) 22:10, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
FYI, someone has proposed replacing Template:Incomplete ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) with {{ stub}}, see the TFD discussion for details. -- 70.50.148.105 ( talk) 03:14, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
Any thoughts on the best stub type for Ambassadors, High Commissions, etc - there are a batch of them in Category:Stubs at the moment and no stub types for international relation, diplomacy, etc. Some could be "{{ London-struct-stub}}" etc, or {{ job-stub}} for the Ambassadors but that doesn't seem ideal. Pam D 16:06, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Did any other stub-sorters know that there's an approved bot changing {{ stub}} to {{ bio-stub}} for articles identified as people? See Category_talk:Stubs#MoohanBOT and my comments at User_talk:Jamesmcmahon0#Your_bot_and_stubs. Pam D 14:28, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi all! :D
I would like to start, and then seriously expand on stubs for a few different mathematical functions, such as the Inverse Tangent Integral - which currently redirects to the Polylogarithm. The latter is seriously cluttered, and contains next to nothing about the Inverse Tangent Integral.
This function really needs it's own page, and if given one, I'm more than capable of fleshing it out quite a bit.
What should I do? Who do I ask...?
All the best!
Gethin
Dream Weaver1975 ( talk) 03:21, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
What does anyone think about changing {{ popstub}} to point to the newer version of catscan? Dawynn ( talk) 02:56, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi, there is a discussion about redirects to stub categories at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2013_December_25#CAT:Novel_stub. Your input would be appreciated. -- John Vandenberg ( chat) 11:14, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
As I understand it, since
WP:WSS/D was abandoned and the deletion discussion system was moved from
WP:SFD to
WP:XFD a couple of years back, a stub category and stub template should be discussed together at
WP:CFD. I've marked
Category:ISRO stubs with {{
subst:cfm}}
, but what is the template that should be placed on {{
ISRO-stub}}
to direct users to the CFD page? --
Redrose64 (
talk) 15:26, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
Can someone pleasew explain to me why the stub tags for Georgia (U.S. state) are all "GeorgiaUS-", not "Georgia-US-"? Since a GeorgiaUS-foo-stub is a type of US-foo-stub, it seems to me that "Georgia-US-" should be the correct form. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:10, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
{{
SouthCarolina-stub}}
or {{
Florida-stub}}
which are at the same level as {{
GeorgiaUS-stub}}
. They do not have "US" in their names; it's only used here because {{
Georgia-stub}}
doesn't refer to the U.S. state but to
the Eurasian country. Kind of like a disambiguator. So, by parallel, we have SouthCarolina-foo-stub, Florida-foo-stub and thus GeorgiaUS-foo-stub. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 23:14, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
Almost all of the Category:Chromosome 1 gene stubs are not stubs at all. They are well documented articles. They should be class=start or class C, and the stub tag should be removed. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 19:49, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
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I opened a thread on WP:PUMP, Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 13#The issue of permanent stubs, & would appreciate further comments. -- llywrch ( talk) 21:44, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
I have proposed that stub categories be changed to hidden categories, in line with other non-topic-specific/project categories. Please contribute to the discussion at Category talk:Stubs. Thanks. SFB 21:30, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
{{ 2010s-rock-song-stub}} and Category:2010s rock song stubs were improperly created as redirects and I'm not sure how to go about adding them as proper stubs or deleting them. --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars Talk to me 16:17, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
{{
2010s-rock-song-stub}}
has been
fixed by
Fortdj33 (
talk ·
contribs) which I generally agree with under
WP:WSS/P#"Speedy creation" S2, but the cat doesn't yet qualify; I think that it's a
WP:CFD matter. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 17:06, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
I've found that {{
Iran-film-director-stub}}
and {{
Iran-film-bio-stub}}
, despite being closely related (to my mind, a film director is a specialised form of film person) are two levels apart:
Category:Iranian people stubs (which contains {{
Iran-film-bio-stub}}
) →
Category:Iranian artist stubs →
Category:Iranian film director stubs. Is it normal to have them separated like that? --
Redrose64 (
talk) 22:13, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
I have found that the stub tagfs related to US counties are inconsistant. Just to take California as an example, we have {{ AlamedaCountyCA-geo-stub}} (with the word "County" in it), {{ OrangeCA-school-stub}} (without the word "County", but still with the CA), and {{ Riverside-school-stub}} (not even a CA - ambiguous, for example, with Riverside, Iowa). I think we should go for a consistant set of names for all US county-related stubs - definitely with the state abbreviation, and probably with the word "County" (since many county names are also names of cities within these counties, such as the 3 mentioned above). And in cases which are ambiguous with locations outside the counties, we should probably update all references and delete the redirect. Anyone else have an opinion here? (Note that I'm excluding cities which are identical with their counties, such as San Francisco, as well as the boroughs of New York City.) עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:20, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
There are several stub categories being proposed for deletion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 April 28. Please weigh in with your opinions. Liz Read! Talk! 22:03, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
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Would this be helpful? I ran a report to collect most visited stubs on English Wikipedia in March 2014. Using seed category: Stub_message_boxes here are the results. Erik Zachte ( talk) 10:49, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Stub-sorters might like to have a look at this category. There are 967 pages at the moment. I keep an eye on one letter of the alphabet (P) and sort the bio-stubs there: other stub-sorters might like to adopt another letter so we can keep it sorted. "People stubs" is a pretty useless category, so they all need to be refined into narrower stubs - by nationality if nothing else, but there's usually something better. Pam D 08:54, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
Please feel free to comment at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 June 1#Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 June 1. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:19, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Do we still need Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types? I think we should depricate that page (and its subpages), for the following reasons:
Any opinions about this topic? עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:46, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
I'd like to revive this project. Anyone want to help?-- 75 * 19:45, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Layout#Proposal: Only one stub template per article. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 09:59, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I'm starting this discussion as a tangent to another discussion on the number of stub templates per page. I'm having it on this WikiProject talk page rather than there because I think the conversation is more appropriate here.
According to calculations done by User:Od Mishehu, we have 23,300 stub templates and 12,600 stub categories. The high number of categories means that each category is fairly small in size, but what results is a system that is ridiculously difficult to navigate. Even the relatively user-friendly list gets complex once you go beyond the top level of categorization.
If the purpose of stub sorting is to allow specialized editors to find interesting articles to work on, are we really making it easier for them to find the articles if they have to navigate over 10,000 different categories? I think we need to consider reducing the number of categories and stub types overall. The categories will be bigger but they will be easier to find. Harej ( talk) 03:30, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
Per the discussion at Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 60#Stub adding bot, could a knowledgeable editor look at the new Template:Pageant-stub and determine what the appropriate categorization should be? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 03:23, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
Currently, the stub tags with the word "Saint" at the beginning is "Saint" some of the time, "St" other times:
This list looks like it's completely arbitrary which uses which form. We should either have them all renamed to the same form, of decide on a clear rule which shouls have which name, and rename them all to match. (A full list can be found at User:Od Mishehu/Saint.) עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:49, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
{{
StLouisCityMO-geo-stub}}
instead of {{
SaintLouisCityMO-geo-stub}}
but not {{
St.LouisCityMO-geo-stub}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 13:10, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
It's a problem I've had with articles too - and in the real world (I live in Saint Clair, which is apparently officially St Clair - or not, depending on your source). A few general points though:
In every case listed, though, surely it's simply a case of having a redirect from the alternative form. Grutness... wha? 13:06, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
Please note that Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types and its suybpages have been nominated for deletion. Feel free to participate in the discussion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:18, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
I've just come across the category
Category:Stubs about Wikipedia, because it's appeared in
Wikipedia:Database reports/Dubious stub categories today; previously it was absent. It was copy/paste moved from
Category:Wikipedia stubs on 30 June 2014 following discussion at
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 June 20#Category:Wikipedia stubs. The category is populated by {{
Wikipedia-stub}}
and so the cat name no longer follows the naming convention for stub cats. It concerns me that this naming convention was not respected, that this project was not informed, and that the participants in that CFD (
77.126.206.211 (
talk),
Sillyfolkboy (
talk ·
contribs),
65.94.171.126 (
talk),
RevelationDirect (
talk ·
contribs), and closer
Good Olfactory (
talk ·
contribs)) do not appear to be regularly involved in stub sorting.
As to the intent of {{
Wikipedia-stub}}
, it's clear to me that it's for articles about Wikipedia itself, not articles hosted on Wikipedia. It appears that some people - including the CFD participants - believed it to be a general-purpose stub template like {{
stub}}
, so I've cleared up
this lot (the
usage of {{Wikipedia-stub}}
will need checking again every few months}. That belief is echoed by the CFD nominator's rationale: 'Since all stub categories are Wikipedia administritive categories, and many of the administritive categories have "Wikipedia" in front of their names, this category looks like it means "Articles in this category are stubs on Wikipedia".' The fact that it had no subcategories, and therefore does not encompass "all stub categories", seems to have escaped notice. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 12:42, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
Background The CfD process currently requires a tag to be placed on category. I usually go further by tagging a WikiProject and the original category creator as a courtesy but this is optional at this time. Thanks for your input on the link above. RevelationDirect ( talk) 18:44, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
{{
Wikipedia-stub}}
. If the category is to be renamed again, perhaps the template should be renamed to match it. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 13:19, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
There is a large backlog of 700+ pages in Category:People stubs that could do with clearing as ideally there would be no pages in it. Just thought I'd bring it to your attention. Jamesmcmahon0 ( talk) 15:04, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
Please note that Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Complete template list is up for deletion; feel free to comment about it at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Complete template list. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:12, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
I noticed that the diplomat stub templates like {{ India-diplomat-stub}} add the articles to the respective "politician stubs" categories (here Category:Indian politician stubs). Is that appropriate? Is diplomacy considered a subset of politics? Personally I don't think that quite fits. For comparison, Category:Diplomats is not a sub-category of Category:Politicians. Huon ( talk) 19:09, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
{{
Diplomat-stub}}
populates
Category:Diplomat stubs, which is in
Category:Political people stubs; and we find a parallel as the templates and cats get increasingly more specific, down to {{
England-diplomat-stub}}
which populates
Category:English diplomat stubs, which is in
Category:English politician stubs. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 19:34, 5 August 2014 (UTC)Currently, for these tags, we have 2 basic patterns:
I think we should standardize all of these - probably accoreding to the first pattern, because of the stub tag name structure ({{ France-painter-17thC-stub}} is a type of {{ France-painter-stub}}, not of {{ painter-17thC-stub}}). Anyone else have an opinion here? עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:22, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
I'm not sure what triggers the rebuild of this page, but it hasn't updated since June. Can someone investigate and revive the automatic monthly build of this page? Dawynn ( talk) 11:31, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
I have just filed a bot request for a new task for MoohanBOT. MoohanBOT currently performs minor stub sorting tasks, retagging biography articles from {{ stub}} to {{ bio-stub}}. The new functionality I have proposed will enable the bot to sort articles relating to British, English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish people into more specific categories. If the bot is accepted and works as planned there is scope to expand this method to other geographic regions. Your input would be appreciated on the request page! Jamesmcmahon0 ( talk) 11:38, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
This CFD clears up a long-standing problem needing correcting, in that the Petersburg Census Area, Alaska ceased to exist when the Petersburg Borough was incorporated nearly two years ago. {{ PetersburgAK-geo-stub}} should be changed to reflect the current subdivision. I'll do it myself if necessary, but I thought I would offer notice here first. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 19:29, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
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Category:Lapland geography stubs was recently moved to Category:Lapland (Finland) geography stubs. Since Lapland is ambiguous, I renamed {{ Lapland-geo-stub}} to {{ LaplandFI-geo-stub}}, without a discussion (I considered it routine cleanup, but I should know better...), but now I am not sure what to do with {{ Lapland-geo-stub}}. It could be converted to a disambiguation page if we create a template for Lapland (Sweden), or it could be a general template for Lapland (region), but I know that it should not redirect to the Finland template. I am willing to fix/reverse anything I've broken. Any suggestions? Thanks, -- Black Falcon ( talk) 20:03, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
{{
Lapland-geo-stub}}
is a template: very few templates are set up with the intent of offering dab choices. One example is {{
sandbox}}
, but I really don't think that we should set up stub templates like that. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 14:07, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
I came across this and noticed there is a problem. This stub category is listed under Category:Israeli footballers and Category:Israeli football biography stubs. I think it should be removed from Category:Israeli footballers since it's already in the Category:Israeli football biography stubs subcategory. -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 22:50, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
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There's a discussion about possibly altering Module:Asbox to add pages to a tracking category if any stub templates on them add more than three categories. If you're interested, please comment at Template talk:Asbox#Unlimited categories. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 23:16, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
I read the "Tools" section and there is nothing that makes sorting stubs easier. -- Mr. Guye ( talk) 00:07, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
The template {{
Belgium-law-bio-stub}}
displays the text "an Belgian" instead of "a Belgian". Could someone fix this please? Cheers
YSSYguy (
talk) 05:50, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Anybody else notice that no articles have shown up in Category:Stubs in at least two weeks? I did some poking around and I can't figure out why it's broken but even after I fixed a hundred or so, there are at least 1,000 unsorted stubs lurking out there waiting to be sorted. Help? - Dravecky ( talk) 10:23, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
{{
asbox}}
was recently converted to Lua (see
Module talk:Asbox), and its code is now impenetrable. I do not see anything above where the proposal to Lua-ise the template was mentioned, let alone discussed. We could revert the template to its pre-Lua version. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 20:17, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
table.insert(stubCats.v, v == '' and not p.demo and pageDoc.exists and
'Stub message templates with documentation subpages'
or not cat:match' stubs$' and {k = 'S', t = page.text}
)
$
- it's looking for the word "stubs" followed by a newline. The code here does not seem to be concerned with the decision whether or not to categorise an article; and the
amendment made by Codehydro did not touch those four lines, and the word "stubs" is not found there either. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 14:35, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
|tempsort=no
rather than the category's name. Blame the person who decided {{
stub}} shouldn't be categorized... or me for my botched consolidation of Asbox/templatepage, not Lua :P (Of the hundred of templates I've tested, I don't remember seeing a single stub template other than {{
stub}} that sets tempsort=no) —
Code
Hydro 19:28, 18 February 2015 (UTC)|tempsort=no
, not to place the category tag specified by |category=
(but not category1 or category2). When the templates were separate, that instruction was ignored on articles simply because the helper was not transcluded on articles. However, the unintended consequence of consolidation is the presence of helper code without transclusion. In other words, while great care was taken to include instructions from both the main template and the helper in the consolidated module, the module was missing an instruction that was not present in either template because the instruction wasn't necessary when the templates were separate. (Yeah, I just spent hours trying to find something that was not present in the original templates -.-;) —
Code
Hydro 21:16, 16 February 2015 (UTC)As long as the number of stubs in the category keeps going up, without the number of uses of the tag doing the same, I wouldn't worry about it. It went up from 289 to 410, while the uses of the stub tag stayed fairly stable. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:15, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
I've proposed a bot to notify users who use vague stub templates that they should use more specific ones. Liam987 (talk) 01:31, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Should the Category:Building and structure stubs be a subrtee of Category:Geography stubs?" I see inconsistancy here - for example, Category:Building and structure stubs is a subcat of Category:Geography stubs; on the other hand, Category:Alaska building and structure stubs isn't a subcat of Category:Alaska geography stubs; and upermged {{ Chad-struct-stub}} doesn't feed into Category:Chad geography stubs. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:21, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
Struct-stubs have long been part of the geo-stub tree for a merely pragmatic reason - a lot of "amateur stub sorters" mark struct-stubs with a basic geo-stub tag. As such, it was more practical to have struct-stubs as part of the geo-stub hierarchy, especially in cases where there was not a separate struct-stub category for a particular country. I'd agree though that it doesn't always make sense for struct-stubs to be considered part of a region's geography, which does imply naturally occurring landforms (but then again, towns and villages are geo-stubs, which suggests otherwise). Personally, I'd take them out of the geo-stub tree, and have any upmerged national templates feeding into regional/continental struct-stub categories and general national categories (e.g., {{ Fiji-struct-stub}} feeding into a Category:Fiji stubs and Category:Oceanian building and structure stubs) Grutness... wha? 00:43, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
I've proposed Category:Metropolis of Lyon geography stubs for deletion as a way of generating discussion over at CFD although personally I'm 50:50 either way. The category was created out of process by User:Arteronyl to reflect the creation of the Metropolis of Lyon when it was carved out of Rhône département earlier this year. The general rule is that French départements have their own stub types, but MoL has a special status as a territorial collectivity. This means that it's effectively treated as a separate département but for instance it has retained its old département number which it now shares with Rhône (69). It's a real grey area - I can see arguments both ways. At present there's only one article in there. Best discussed over at CFD. Le Deluge ( talk) 18:21, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
There's been a bit of discussion on an editor's talk page about whether adding {{ stub}} to an article is "stub-sorting". I don't think it is, and an edit summary of "stub-sorting" can be confusing when looking at an article's history - I've suggested that they use "stub tagging" instead. But I see that there is no definition in WP:GLOSSARY for "stub sorting".
I propose adding a definition to that Glossary:
Any thoughts? Pam D 09:56, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
A bot request, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BattyBot 43, has been open related to removing stub tags from all redirects. Community input is welcome at the request. — xaosflux Talk 19:47, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
This category has been well and truly overpopulated for too long (It had been just as big for a long time when I started my sabbatical from stub sorting about two/three years ago). I decided to have another look at it and notice that the majority of articles seem to have been turned into redirects, do we put stub tags on redirects or can we remove the tag from the redirect and therefore reduce the size of the category? My feeling is to remove them as redirects are not articles and therefore can't be stub articles, but am open to other suggestions. Waacstats ( talk) 21:21, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
Category:Overpopulated stub categories, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 23:34, 29 March 2015 (UTC) ~
Template:Eginyn has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. "Eginyn" means 'stub' in Welsh. -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 13:00, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Please see this discussion regarding film stub tags. Thanks! Fortdj33 ( talk) 18:55, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Is there a reason why this category isn't divided into subcategories by year, the way most (if not all) other song-related stub categories appear to be? The only subcats I see are Category:2000s hip hop single stubs and Category:2010s hip hop single stubs; what about songs released earlier than 2000? Erpert blah, blah, blah... 04:05, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
Hiphop-song-stub}}
. Then if you find that one of these templates has been used in 60+ articles, you can then file a request at
WP:WSS/P for the decade category. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 10:54, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
I run into this problem a lot and when I try to find the answer, I usually end up back here on WikiProject Stub sorting.
If there are already templates created that appear to be subcategories, what is the process to add those to the tree structure of a category page?
Example: On the category page Brazilian_building_and_structure_stubs, there are only two subcategories (in the Subcategory section), but just below that (under Pages in category "Brazilian building and structure stubs") are five templates which seem to me to be subcategories. Are they not? If they are, why are they not listed in the tree structure? And, more to the point, if there are articles which are already using {{Brazil-church-stub}} etc., will they automatically be moved up into the Subcategory section once …whatever needs to happen next… happens?
As I said, I run into this a lot and am more than happy to start cleaning this up when I see it. Please tell me that these templates do not still need to be vetted by the WikiProject stub process; they are already being used, so I assume they don’t need “approval”. I am not as keen to use my time filling out bureaucratic submission forms for others' approval as I am to just change a bit of code for category pages that have just gotten a bit messy but that have the new subcategories just sitting there, waiting to be used properly. This seems like it should be a very easy fix… I hope it is! —
giso6150 (
talk) 16:25, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
{{
Brazil-church-stub}}
, pages bearing this template appear in
Category:South American church stubs (which has 147 members) and also in
Category:Brazilian building and structure stubs (which has 287 members). The template itself is used on
44 pages which is below the 60 we require for a dedicated category. If the stub template gets used on more than 60 articles, you can go to
WP:WSS/P and submit a request to create the category as a S1 "Speedy creation". --
Redrose64 (
talk) 18:01, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
Three things:
It doesn't appear to me that Category:Machine learning stubs was created through the proper stub creation process. Is that the case and if so what should be done? Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 01:48, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
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...will be run again in August. Signups are at Wikipedia:Stub Contest/Entries. Cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 22:04, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
See Category:KratOS stubs/ Template:KratOS-stub. A (relatively) new user created these and this "KratOS" thing is a non-notable topic anyway ( User:CompanyDude/sandbox2). Should the template be deleted? — Jeraphine Gryphon ( talk) 08:39, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Deletedstubpage. Since this WikiProject had some involvement with the Template:Deletedstubpage redirect, members of this WikiProject might want to participate in the redirect discussion if they have not already done so. Steel1943 ( talk) 00:45, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
Howdy all - I've been out of it for a while and just started re-sorting stubs per project guidelines. I came across Yanzhou (ancient China) and tried to use {{ China-geo-stub}} on it. When I went to preview the edit, I saw a message above the usual "This is a ___ stub" text which read thusly: "The stub template {{ China-geo-stub}} is deprecated. Please use {{ PRChina-geo-stub}}, {{ HongKong-geo-stub}}, {{ Macau-geo-stub}}, or {{ Taiwan-geo-stub}} instead."
I ended up sorting it into {{ Asia-geo-stub}}, but I wonder why there doesn't seem to be a geo stub type for a region which, at the time, was not the PRC or any of those other current political entities. (I did hunt through the list of stub types, btw.) I don't necessarily want to propose such a type, but I would welcome any explanation of the rationale for the current "deprecation". Thanks! Pegship ( talk) 19:45, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
Is there a way to archive old proposals that were already accepted and created?
I currently see proposals from 2013-2015 and some were accepted but not created, while others were created. This would help clean out the backlog of proposals. -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 22:15, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
Can anyone tell me why we still have this process? Looking at the current (lengthy) page, there have only been a handful of proposals over the last few months. Most of these have come from the same users who then support their own action after the set amount of days have elapsed. I've never used this page, I just go ahead and create stub templates and categories as I see fit. The current WP:CFD process now takes care of stub categories if they're not needed too, so this seems to be WP:BURO. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 15:15, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
Please note that Category:Palestine stubs and its subcat Category:Palestine geography stubs are up for renaming at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 February 22#Palestine, as part of a wider nomination. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:25, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
A discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Definition_of_a_stub_and_automatic_removal_of_stub_templates includes a proposal to distinguish stubs and non-stubs by size, and may be of interest. Pam D 20:47, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
Do tags like {{ inc-films}} and {{ inc-video}} infringe on stubs, or {{ expand}} or the result of the deletion of start-class stub-like tags? -- 70.51.45.100 ( talk) 04:38, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
G'day, not sure where to bring this up, but anyway...; the Template {{ Australia-documentary-film-stub}} generates the phrase "a Australian" when placed in an article. When looking into this, I also found that {{ Austria-company-stub}} generates "a Austrian"; no doubt there will be others as well. Is this something that can be fixed without too much trouble? YSSYguy ( talk) 02:52, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi all - I've been going through the list of "missing stub types" and fixing any templates that are misspelled or malformed. I've just finished up with {{ South Africa-bio-stub}}, which redirects to {{ SouthAfrica-bio-stub}}, and now that {{ South Africa-bio-stub}} is no longer used on any article, what should I do with it? I can just remove the redirect code, if that's all that's necessary - it's not as though I'd be deleting a legit stub tag. Any advice? Pegship ( talk) 18:03, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
{{
db-redirtypo}}
; (iii) take it to
WP:RFD. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 09:52, 19 April 2016 (UTC)I'm sure I've read that any {{ stub}} tag or specific stub tag should be separated by a blank line above it, but I can't find chapter and verse to quote - not in WP:Layout, for example. I'd like to cite that when asking at Wikipedia talk:Page Curation if they could fix the software so that when an editor adds {{ uncat}} and {{ stub}}, a common combination, they appear on separate lines (and ideally with a blank line between them). It would save having to add a new line or two manually every time. Any thoughts? Pam D 11:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Is there a preferred method for proposing a significant number of stub-templates and categories? I suspect "drowning the proposals page in them, listing them one-by-one" isn't it, right?
I'm asking because the stub-sorting on Lepidoptera and everything downstream from there is quite the mess in its current state. As of my most recent check of Category:Moth stubs and its subcats, as well as Category:Butterfly stubs and its subcats, there are dozens of categories with over 500 articles, of which over a dozen has 1000+ articles. The worst case at the moment is the end-level Category:Gelechiidae stubs, which currently holds over 5500 stubs. Even leaving aside the taxonomically contentious cases, there's a lot that can be done to partially diffuse at least the worst of such categories.
(Not blaming WikiProject Stub sorting for the mess, by the way. The state of the stub-categorization rather closely mirrors that of the 'normal' Lepidoptera categorization, which is also messy. Is what happens when a Wikiproject has around 9000-30000 times more articles than active members, I suppose, as is the case with Wikiproject Lepidoptera. (90000+ articles, maybe ten active editors per year of which at any given moment maybe 2-5 are actually active at the same time).
AddWittyNameHere ( talk) 23:28, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Dravecky ( talk · contribs) died last Saturday, April 23. See his talk page for details.
He is listed as a member of this WikiProject. I will leave it up to his fellow WikiProject participants to decide when it would be appropriate to remove him from the list of active participants. His user page may be locked-down so it may require an administrator to remove him from the relevant wikiproject-participation-category. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 20:25, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
The Invertebrates part of the Science section of the stub-types list is growing unwieldy. The primary issue is the Insects group of stubs, of which especially the moths group is not. helping., but butterflies, beetles and some other insects play a role as well. The page lags something fierce on editing, even if just the invertebrates section (at least for me, but I'm on a fairly good though not top-of-the-line pc, so I'm probably not the only one) and we're reaching the point where some of the entries have ********** in front of them. That's ten bullets, for those not inclined to count 'm.
Would it perhaps be possible to move the Insects part of the Invertebrates section of Science to its own page and then transclude it onto the list, or can someone think of a different solution? AddWittyNameHere ( talk) 18:50, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
Sangwansunny ( talk) 18:02, 26 May 2016 (UTC)sangwansunny i just want to know that can i create a stub of indain kabbadi players? Sangwansunny ( talk) 18:02, 26 May 2016 (UTC)sangwansunny
Deletion discussion under way for a stub category which conforms to the standard tree and has 61 stubs. Input from other stub sorters would be welcome. Grutness... wha? 15:16, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
See here for a CfD discussion relating to a stub category. ~ Rob13 Talk 02:44, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
What are your thoughts on using the Category:1960s singles and similar decade categories as the basis for moving stubs from {{ 1960s-song-stub}} to {{ 1960s-single-stub}}? i.e. If an article is in the Category:1960s singles tree and has {{ 1960s-song-stub}} on the page, it would be swapped over to {{ 1960s-single-stub}}. I recently used this to populate Category:1950s singles, which was undersized, but it seems to make sense to more broadly use this to refine stub categorization of songs. I ran some pre-parsing using WP:AWB and an automated task to do this would result in edits to 1,612 articles. All the singles stub categories are sub-categories of the songs stub categories, of course. Yea/nay? ~ Rob13 Talk 02:34, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BU RoBOT 25, which is a proposed bot task that would make it easy to populate stub categories based on existing categorization schemes. See the songs/singles category above here for an example where this has already been put to good use. Any comments at the BRFA are greatly appreciated. ~ Rob13 Talk 23:34, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
Category:Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska geography stubs was nominated for deletion. I nominated a host of related categories along with it. See discussion here. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 10:25, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
Yet another CfD here. ~ Rob13 Talk 02:02, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
There's a current CFD discussion about how to structure Category:Noongar stubs within Template:Noongar-stub at CFD. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 07:17, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi all - the recent kerfuffle over the TfD/CfD for {{ Nelson-geo-stub}} and its category has highlighted a problem we often have at WPSS - keeping track of deletion nominations for stub types on those process pages. The XfD watcher who was most heavily involved in the discussions - User:BU Rob13 - has suggested something we should have probably done ages ago - getting WP:AALERTS messages posted here whenever such a discussion comes up. BU Rob13 has kindly offered to run a bot to tag all stub templates and categories that are in Category:Stub categories and Category:Stub message templates. All that's needed is agreement here that this would be a good idea. Please add a yay or nay comment below... cheers, Grutness... wha? 01:49, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
{{
ArticleAlertSubscription}}
you would add |maincategory=Stub message templates
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 20:47, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
The AALERTS is beginning to work at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Article alerts. Please note that tagging is still ongoing and likely to take until Thursday or Friday given the large number of edits, so not everything will appear there yet. I can tag again in the future if needed, but there shouldn't be a need; please tag new stub categories/templates as they're created instead. ~ Rob13 Talk 08:23, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
This is kind of a headache, but I assume someone must have discussed this before. What's the deal with project stubs vs. sorted stubs? I'm currently running AWB through Category:Stub-Class Australian rules football articles to get a sense of how many of the 13,174 stubs in that category don't have any sort of stub template on the actual article page. It's not painting a great picture so far. The pre-parsing is around half done and over 75% aren't in stub categories on the actual article page. ~ Rob13 Talk 22:45, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
This has been discussed frequently in the past. Stub-Class articles are not really connected with stubs in any way at all. In many cases, an article can be regarded as Stub-Class by a WikiProject while no longer being a stub, and vice versa, depending on a project's own definitions. Given that stubs are intended to work across the entirety of Wikipedia independent of individual subject projects, we have different guidelines for what is and isn't a stub to those used by the individual projects. Although 600,000 seems pretty high and some stubbing might be necessary, it's not too much of a surprise that there are some articles which are Stub-Class but not stubs. Similarly, there are probably quite a large number of stubs which are Start-Class. Grutness... wha? 01:10, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
I just edited the Nazi_Anti-Flag_Desecration entry, to the point where it may no longer be a stub.
What are the criteria to remove the stub attribute, and who does the removing?
Tatzelbrumm ( talk) 22:59, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
Pegship copied the notice that is at the top of this page (right above the first comment) to the bottom of the page a few months ago. [1]
Unfortunately, the use of "Add topic" or "+" (depending on your settings) "breaks" the intent of his edit, so I removed it. [2]
If too many people are ignoring the existing notice near the top of this page, we can ask an administrator to create an "Edit notice" that will appear any time a user edits this page.
Is there a big enough problem to warrant doing this?
For reference, here is a copy of the text that is at the top of the page:
copy of big notice that is at the top of the page
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NOTE: This page is not a forum to suggest the creation of articles. If you wish to create an article on any subject, go to Wikipedia:Articles for creation and follow the instructions there. |
davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 17:48, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
Stubs for creation (SFC) is a proposed task force for Articles for creation. SFC will assist new editors in creating useful stubs on notable subjects. Please feel free to discuss and expand on the idea at Draft:Stubs for creation. Cheers! -- 1Wiki8........................... ( talk) 08:10, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
I reverted an image change on the videogame-stub and inc-vg templates because it appears it was done for the purpose of advertising the video game Wikiproject. KATMAKROFAN ( talk) 15:18, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
Sound familiar? This stub type and category have been re-created in spite of consensus to delete back in May. It was not proposed or discussed here at WPSS (or anywhere?), it's incorrectly formed, and the dispute over its necessity is documented in the May discussion. There's also a -geo-stub sub-cat, which I've also nominated. This might have been done in good faith, but it's still unnecessary and incorrect. Please feel free to weigh in. Her Pegship ( talk) 15:08, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
{{
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic-stub}}
and
Category:Nagorno-Karabakh Republic stubs - are eligible for
WP:CSD#G4, so I've tagged them {{
db-repost}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 20:20, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
{{
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic-politician-stub}}
- neither of them with any prior request, discussion or approval that I can find. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 20:02, 1 October 2016 (UTC)I've come across {{ DominicanRepublic-tennis-bio-stub}} which looks plausible, but which seems to have been created out of process and is lacking a category - could someone take a look? The Evansville template has been relisted for deletion as noone commented on it before; any progress on the Frisia one (per above)? Le Deluge ( talk) 12:21, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
Template:Wildfire-stub appears in
Category:Stub message templates needing attention because it has |category=Stub-Class Wildfire articles
, which is not a stub category but a part of the
WikiProject article quality grading scheme. I tried
fixing it, but was reverted by
Zackmann08 (
talk ·
contribs). The thing is, although I am certain that the |category=
parameter is being misused, I can't actually point to where it's written down - it's one of those things that have always been done this way. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 07:17, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
A small challenge - sort this stub. I can't find an appropriate stub tag. Pam D 15:29, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
Category:Referees stubs was created a couple of days ago and needs some attention. Pam D 22:56, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello all, I have made a userbox that will help us sort stubs better. This userbox will keep track of all the stubs in the stubs category, and will change the color of the number at 400, 600, and 900 articles in the category.
Code | Result | |||
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{{ User:Yoshi24517/Userboxes/Stub Sorting}} |
|
Usage |
Let me know what you think. Ping me when you reply. Yoshi24517 Chat Online 21:02, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
Does anyone here have any pointers to the number of stubs associated with the USA, Canada, and the (geographic) British Isles (i.e. UK + IE). Pointers to the difficulty I have in answering this question are at User talk:Tagishsimon#Stubs. Input here or on my talk page would be much appreciated; thanks. -- Tagishsimon (talk) 05:18, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
Is there a reason why some U.S. states have bio stubs and others don't? My assumption is that there just aren't enough in some states, but I assume at some point there will be enough for all the states and I think it would help with uniformity of things. South Nashua ( talk) 21:42, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
As a heads up, I plan to nominate a bunch of unused stub templates in my efforts to thin down Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused templates. Keep an eye on the article alerts project subpage if you want to see those. ~ Rob13 Talk 11:19, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
When stub categories turn up on some of the problem-category reports I work on, it suggests that they've been created out of process, perhaps someone could take a look at Category:Sasanian people stubs and Category:Palghar district geography stubs? They look OK to me, but would be worth eyeballs from someone with more experience of stub cats for a bit of tweaking? Also Category:I-Kiribati sport stubs needs creating to fill a hole in the hierarchy equivalent to Category:Australian sport stubs, and Category:Korean television stubs appears redundant? Although there's lots of top-level Korea categories elsewhere, there's no Korea-stub hierarchy. Le Deluge ( talk) 16:42, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
A number of stub templates and categories relating to Punjab have been created by Peeta Singh ( talk · contribs), and I can't find the discussion(s) that authorised them.
I suspect that there were no discussions, as all these templates are underutilised (many have no transclusions at all), and the categories underpopulated (many contain only the stub template itself). -- Redrose64 ( talk) 21:00, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
To be sure, Category:Punjabi people stubs is overpopulated (1,674 articles!), and it may even be that the creator of these thought there were sufficient numbers to fill them, but unless someone has numbers to support that, I don't see a reason to keep them. Her Pegship ( talk) 16:53, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for the cleanup, As I was discussing at Bishonen talk page about all this unnecessary stuff created by Peeta Singh so do we need to go for a cleanup with WikiProject and Portal as well? GSS ( talk| c| em) 06:06, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi folks! Would anyone mind if I suggest using the Discoveries page for any new discoveries? It's been dormant since 2012, possibly due to little use, but I think it's a more appropriate place for these discussions (and easier to find). Cheers, Her Pegship ( talk) 17:43, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
The article Pale Township tries to use the stub Template:Yinmabin-geo-stub (currently red-linked). Additional uses includes:
All uses seem to be from 2016
Tewksbg ( talk) 04:06, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
I have no idea what, where or who Akwaibom is, but Category:Akwaibom-stub, Category:Akwaibom stubs and Template:Akwaibom-stub were created by Margaretver ( talk · contribs) without proposing them first at WP:WSS/P. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 15:56, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
{{
db-author}}
to it and save. An admin will delete it within a few hours. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 00:17, 7 January 2017 (UTC)Akwaibom
akwaibom
Akwa Ibom
AkwaIbom
Wikipedia:Categorization#Subcategorization says:
"Note also that as stub templates are for maintenance purposes, not user browsing (see #Wikipedia administrative categories above), they do not count as categorization for the purposes of Wikipedia's categorization policies. An article which has a "stubs" category on it must still be filed in the most appropriate content categories, even if one of them is a direct parent of the stubs category in question."
I noticed there are many articles which have the topic-stub category but not the parent category of said stub-category set. Hence I suggest that a script or bot may be written that goes through all the articles in Category:Stub categories and sets their respective parent category.
So for instance all articles in
Category:1950s science fiction novel stubs should have the
Category:1950s science fiction novels set.
There are some considerations to be made here such as how to best identify a stub-category's parent category and checking an article for subcategories of the identified stub-category's parent category. As an example of the latter articles in
Category:Science fiction novel stubs afaik wouldn't need to be added to
Category:Science fiction novels if they're already in
Category:1950s science fiction novels (or
Category:German science fiction novels)?
Note that once the stub-template is removed its category will be removed as well. I don't think we can ensure that the parent category is added when the template is removed by some editor so this is why I think we should get this working.
I'm not sure if I should also post this to Wikipedia:Categorization, Wikipedia:Bot requests / Wikipedia:Scripts#Scripting requests or any other appropriate place.
Could somebody here please get this going?
-- Fixuture ( talk) 17:09, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
Template:Translation-stub offers no clue to what defines a translation stub. Is it
or what?
-- Thnidu ( talk) 23:21, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
@ Fadesga and Redrose64: Thank you, more-experienced fellow editors, for your patience with my ignorant requests. I can use fairly simple templates and create simple ones, but I have no idea of the mechanics of building complex ones, including embedded templates.
Fadesga, I am indeed asking for something similar to the {{ book-stub}} advisory. Your answer
is exactly the kind of explanation I was asking for. Now I know, but what of the next editor, at my level of knowledge or below, who wants to tag as stub an overly-brief article about translat*? {{ translation-stub}} doesn't tell them (us) what it's to be used for-- nor, I suppose, does {{ translator-stub}}. It may be clear to experienced stub editors and sorters, but not to the newcomer to this territory. That is why I asked you to incorporate that explanation into the doc, and maybe your third sentence as well, the one about maintenance templates related to translation. Redrose64, are most or all stub templates so devoid of basic information as the distinctions I asked about in my original posting, above? -- Thnidu ( talk) 06:47, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
This doesn't appear to have a properly-created stub cat... Pam D 23:32, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
I see there's a Category:Frisia stubs which looks like it's been created out of process with one member as part of a wider creation of a new WikiProject - anyone want to take a look? Le Deluge ( talk) 19:25, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
I would like to create the interior designers stub category and then discuss the newly created category with active editors in the Wikipedia architecture category. I'd also like to use this new stub category for the the creation of articles on notable living interior designers. I have made four so far, one of which is awaiting verification. And one I have not yet uploaded. They are Liang Zhi Tian John Saladino Juan Montoya. There's also a few up already created by others and I'd like a way to group them and see that they get due attention. I'm raising this on the talk page prior to editing the article space of this page, as this is the first time I have attempted to go through this process. Many thanks. Edaham ( talk) 15:43, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi there. I have been going through several categories devoted to stub templates, for instance: Category:Sciences stub templates, Category:Literature stub templates, Category:Academic journals stub templates, Category:Cuisine stub templates, etc. whick is OK in itself.
On the other hand there is the very big Category:Stub message templates.
But there is not yet an intermediate category, say, a Category:Wikipedia stub templates by topic (or maybe a Category:Wikipedia stub template categories). This would make easier the categorisation and search of stub templates in general.
What do you say? Regards, -- Fadesga ( talk) 11:30, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
{{
Alien-stub}}
{{asbox | icon = [[File:Alien icon.svg | 35px]] | subject = Extraterrestrial being-related | qualifier = | category = Science fiction stubs | tempsort = | name = Template:Alien-sf-stub }}
template:Alien-stub is wrong. It claims to be an "extrateressials" stub category, but it uses the Science fiction stubs category. Since extraterrestrials are not necessarily science fiction, this categorization is wrong, or the description is wrong. It even claims it is called {{
Alien-sf-stub}}
which isn't the name of the template (it is a different template)
--
65.94.169.56 (
talk) 13:41, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
This stub template was deleted in 2014. It seems to have been revived in a confused form without any discussion earlier this year. The only article marked with it wasn't a stub, by the way, so it is currently unused and can presumably be speedied as the re-creation of a deleted template. Grutness... wha? 15:21, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
(Edit: Please disregard this message, this was the result of a typo that I have fixed) Hi, I'm working on the June 2017 proposal to add more subcategories to Arkansas Registered Historic Place stubs, and I'm running into a problem. Because many of the counties don't merit their own stub category, I decided it made the most sense to implement region subcategories, and then add all the counties categories to their respective region. Ultimately, larger regions would get their own category within the region, while smaller categories would rollup directly to the region.
As a particular example, in Northwest Arkansas Registered Historic Place stubs, Benton County, Arkansas Registered Historic Place stubs, Sebastian County, Arkansas Registered Historic Place stubs, and Washington County, Arkansas Registered Historic Place stubs would all exist, and then the remaining counties would just be tags that rollup directly into the Northwest Arkansas NRHP stubs category.
The problem I have is that I'm not sure how to get the smaller counties to rollup directly to the region without their own category. I used {{ asbox}} to try and create {{ BooneCountyAR-NRHP-stub}} but first of all the template page does not look like a correct asbox page, and pages tagged with this template do not appear on the Northwest Arkansas NRHP stubs page. I've tried looking at various other examples of NRHP stub categories with these sorts of regional/county subdivisions such as New York, Oregon, and Maryland, but I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. Could somebody please help me out by creating a couple of the missing county templates in Northwest Arkansas to give me an example to work from for the remaining counties? Fixing {{ BooneCountyAR-NRHP-Stubs}} and creating {{ CarrollCountyAR-NRHP-Stubs}} would be fine. Furicorn ( talk) 00:49, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
I was wondering if it is bad form to add an upmerged stub template to multiple stub categories? I was thinking {{
SouthCarolina-plantation-stub}}
might be worth adding an additional rollup specifically relating it to slavery, as the current parent is mostly about architecture. But reading through the guidelines, it was ambiguous what guidelines to use when deciding whether to add a stub to multiple stub parents. -
Furicorn (
talk) 21:22, 28 August 2017 (UTC|
{{
Plantation-stub}}
; and whilst there is a
Category:Plantation stubs, it is empty, and was created less than two hours ago by you, again without prior agreement. I see that you created a proposal at
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/2017/August#Plantation stub templates less than three hours ago, but seem to have assumed agreement and jumped in with an overcomplicated structure that is not yet demonstrably needed.
WP:WSS/P is clear: 5 days after listing it [at WSS/P], if there is general approval or no objection, go ahead and create the new category and/or template. You're not waiting for that.{{
SouthCarolina-plantation-stub}}
upmerges to
Category:South Carolina building and structure stubs, the same way that any of the following do
Hey, I was wondering if there is a tool used to generate or update the Oversized stub categories table? Or if someone has any guidance about the best way to update the table? This conversation is cross-posted at Talk:WikiProject Stub sorting/To do. - Furicorn ( talk) 02:39, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
I was trying to change {{ Estonia-artist-stub}} so that pages that transcluded it would be added to the category Category:Estonian artist stubs in stead of Category:Estonian people stubs. That didn't work, so I reverted myself. How should I have done this? Mduvekot ( talk) 15:15, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
The user massively destroy Hong Kong from country cat tree but did not understand how to create Template:China-gov-stub. Matthew_hk t c 09:24, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
Category:Churches has recently been renamed to Category:Church buildings. Any opposition to renaming its stub category tree to Category:Church building stubs/{{ church-struct-stub}}? עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:04, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
The parent category, Category:United States election stubs, is overpopulated, with over 1,600 members, and most members could be placed in a specific state, but there are only five states for which subcategories even exist (I'm only counting by subcategories of Category:United States election stubs, so there may be more, but since they aren't subcategories of Category:United States election stubs, they're useless because they're unlikely to be found.), so you're not even 10% of the way through on creating subcategories because an Category:District of Columbia election stubs, and possibly other subcategories for non-states, would also be worth creating. I've been working on moving pages from Category:United States election stubs and Category:Vermont stubs to Category:Vermont election stubs, and I'm not even a member of this WikiProject? Would some members of this WikiProject please help (with state subcategories in general, not just Vermont)? Care to differ or discuss with me? The Nth User 19:14, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
I'm trying to think of a good structure to subdivide Category:Spilomelinae stubs into more manageable groups of around 200, but the best I could think of was alphabetical categories by genus . Do people have any better ideas?
Cross-posted at Talk:WikiProject Lepidoptera
- Furicorn ( talk) 05:51, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
As some of you may have noticed, Wikipedia:Database reports/Dubious stub categories has grown today from 25 entries to 71. I suspect that this is due to the activities of a single person, Sawol ( talk · contribs) - I saw this problem coming, and a couple of days back started a thread at User talk:Sawol#Stub categories and moves. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 14:38, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
Stub templates that use Template:Soccer icon (from helper template Template:Soccer icon2) result in big white squares instead of having transparent backgrounds. If you have a different color set as background color instead of white, then this is very noticeable. Other stub templates (like flagmap stub images, etc) have transparent backgrounds.
Examples of this big white square can be seen if you change your background color and then look at Template:Mexico-sport-bio-stub, Template:Russia-sport-bio-stub, etc.
-- 70.52.10.192 ( talk) 06:06, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I have removed the stub tag from a number of articles that I expanded over the past few months. These articles are mostly bios of academics, artists and 19th century musicians. I followed the instructions at WP:DESTUB, however, I am not sure about how to handle the stub tag on the article's talk page. On the talk page, the article appears to be rated as stub→start→etc. But I think that only administrators can classify articles beyond stub class. I have stopped removing stubs - because of the obvious conflict between the status on the article itself and the talk page. I am reluctant to proceed any further. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. BronHiggs ( talk) 08:09, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Is anyone else not seeing [edit] links for each section on Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals? I've navigated to several other pages, including the sub-pages for each month, and I can see the section edit links everywhere except the Proposals page. Any advice on how I can get them back? Am I just now noticing something that's always existed?? Pegship ( talk) 20:03, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
{{foo))
and it may well be in a subpage. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 11:09, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
{{
archive}}
. This sets __NOEDITSECTION__
, which kills the section edit links because it's not expecting to be used on pages with ongoing discussions. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 18:48, 27 March 2018 (UTC)See Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting#Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting; anyone know what might have prompted this? Pegship ( talk) 05:43, 5 April 2018 (UTC) Pegship ( talk) 05:43, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#RFC to dissolve Wikiproject Stub Sorting. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 10:05, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.
Portals are being redesigned.
The new design features are being applied to existing portals.
At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{ Transclude lead excerpt}}.
The discussion about this can be found here.
Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.
Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.
So far, 84 editors have joined.
If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.
If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.
Thank you. — The Transhumanist 11:02, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
And by "large number" I mean "130+". Unfortunately, the entirety of them will need to be checked. Some of them are valid enough other than not being listed on the stub types list. Some would be fine as an upmerged template but have too few articles at the moment to be valid as stand-alone category; some have too few articles to be useful even as upmerged template. Another common theme is adding layers for the sake of adding layers, something they're notorious for even outside stub sorting.
See for example the tree down from Category:Diptera stubs. Yes, a containing/diffusing category can be useful, but layers upon layers of them for higher taxon ranks that shave off a very small number at a time while sorting the rest of the contents further down and down and down isn't useful. (And that it frequently mirrors the main category structure means zilch, considering Caftaric was highly active there as well) Even most of the few higher-ranked layers that seem useful due to number of articles in it aren't: that's just a lack of properly sorting the rest of them down. Which is another big Caftaric issue: creating layers both upward and downward and not bothering to actually sort the majority of relevant contents to their proper places. Or sorting them by diffusing the wrong category, sometimes. *sigh*
In regards to seems-useful-is-actually-full-of-not-properly-downsorted-stubs: Thinking of e.g. Category:Asilomorpha stubs here. With 194 pages it would seem valid, but other than the template and the article Asilomorpha, pretty much everything can be sorted into the superfamily subcats, which are also Caftaric-creations, but actually useful.
I've been building a table for a while to summarize the issues or absence thereof of each of their categories, but I can't seem to find the time or energy to wrap it up, so I'm posting this here in advance. AddWitty NameHere 19:29, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
There are some users who edit insect, arachnid, and arthropod articles, and replace the "official" stub category template with a new one that is not in the official list, usually with a slightly lower taxonomic rank.
For example, GTBacchus has changed {{ Tachinidae-stub}} to {{ dexiinae-stub}} and {{ ichneumonoidea-stub}} to {{ ichneumonidae-stub}}
Sbbarker19 changed {{ bee-stub}} to {{ sweat-bee-stub}}, which was created today.
Caftaric (since banned as a sock puppet) changed a lot, such as {{ arthropod-stub}} to {{ Springtail-stub}} for springtails.
What should be done?
(1) Nothing, it's not a big deal,
(2) Start using the new templates or non-official stub templates (if so, should they be added to the official list?),
or (3) Revert the edits to a template on the WikiProject stub sorting list.
The main thing I was wondering is whether I should stick with the official list for future articles. Bob Webster ( talk) 20:10, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
A rename discussion regarding Template:Asbox is currently open at Template_talk:Asbox#Requested_move_17_July_2018. If you are interested in this, please see the discussion there. — xaosflux Talk 11:46, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
I noticed that a bot was adding certain stub categories to Wikidata
I asked the operator why and they said per Wikidata Rules all categories are eligible for Wikidata connection. It just seemed a little weird to me since I've never seen one of my stub categories added to Wikidata before. - Furicorn ( talk) 16:42, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
Meindosan GMT 18:08 I think the page of Wilby,Northamptonshire should become a stub. It has nothing about its history and not enough information. -- Meindosan ( talk) 17:10, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
Does anyone focus on sorting
Category:People stubs? I've just suggested to an editor that adding {{
bio-stub}} was less than helpful as {{
stub}} would bring it to the eyes of a stub-sorter, but s/he then reasonably and, I find, rightly, queried my assumption that no-one was sorting
Category:People stubs. Looking at it, I'm delighted to see that there are only 6 in that broad category, so I guess someone must indeed be keeping an eye on them: good news, and well done whoever's working there.
I see we've got 1,411 in Category:British people stubs (more than the 559 in Category:American people stubs). The British ones start with initial F, suggesting that some good person is systematically sorting them: well done that stub-sorter! I'll try to chip in with some work on that category.
So this ends up by being just a heads-up to stub-sorters that even when Category:Stubs is empty there are a lot of nationality-bio-stubs which could usefully be sorted into more specific stub types: some of our colleagues are already concentrating there but there's plenty more to be done. Happy Stub-sorting! (@ Philafrenzy: for info) Pam D 08:58, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
Actors should have a stub type, there are a lot of them and it should be possible to make a basic article about and actor and mark it for more detail. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DemonDays64 ( talk • contribs) 02:41, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
There is a new hierarchy based and keyword searchable script for sorting stubs: User:Danski454/stubsearch.js ( doc). Danski454 kindly created it after I requested it, so I guess the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Hope this is as much use to you guys as it is to me. — Insertcleverphrasehere ( or here) 10:19, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
I've been working with User:Danski454 on the script, and i found out that Category:Chinese Roman Catholic diocese stubs was not turning up in the search because it was not added to the stub type category tree (this category may have been created outside the stub template process, it doesn't have a WP:Stub template, and once I tag all the diocese, it may be too small to legitimately exist). I was wondering if there is any patrol or tracking method for monitoring new stub categories that have not been appropriately added to the stub types tree? - Furicorn ( talk) 18:57, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
See discussion at Categories for discussion under Category:Hip hop song stubs. Her Pegship ( speak) 23:38, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
See discussion of stub category at CfD. Her Pegship ( speak) 23:39, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you all know I made a request at the meta-wiki community wishlist survey earlier this month to create HotCat-like functionality for stub templates in case you are interested in voting. - Furicorn ( talk) 03:16, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
There is an RfC concerning stub categories and stub templates at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion#RFC: Move stubtypes (and categories populated by templates currently on TFD) to TFD. Please discuss there. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 11:10, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
While going through stubs to sort, I came across AMD Platform Security Processor. I didn't think it was a stub, and would have manually removed the stub template, but I was inspired to write a script to do it for me. The result: De-Stub.js, a script to remove stub templates from pages. I thought the people involved in this wikiproject might be interested in trying it out. Let me know if you have any questions. -- DannyS712 ( talk) 09:25, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
I created Category:Civil rights movement stubs without noticing the "Please propose new stub templates and categories here before creation". statement. What should I do to make sure everything is okay? Mitchumch ( talk) 16:41, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
{{
db-author}}
on both the cat page and the stub template. If you do succeed in finding 57 more, we will need to look at renaming
Template:Civil Rights Movement-stub which is not according to convention. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 00:15, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
split from previous section for clarity
|category=
parameter looks correct, but actually contains an invisible character (usually a
left-to-right mark) immediately after the category name
|category=
param, click the mouse. Then press the ← Backspace key sufficient times to remove the last letter. Then retype the letter. Do this also for |category1=
and |category2=
if present, then save.I've found
Category:Six Flags stubs and {{
Six-Flags-stub}}
, both created by
99721829Max (
talk ·
contribs) about a week ago, but I can find no evidence that they were proposed beforehand, let alone approved for creation. With only three articles, the potential for growth seems remote. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 19:40, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
{{
SixFlags-stub}}
, since it isn't a subtype of {{
Flags-stub}}
.
עוד מישהו
Od Mishehu 15:10, 8 April 2019 (UTC)I came across {{ Nepalese-business-bio-stub}} and the corresponding Category:Nepalese business biography stubs which I suspect were created out of process. I've tidied up the cat which only has one member but I can see scope for expansion, my instinct is to just leave it but I thought I'd raise it here. Le Deluge ( talk) 13:41, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
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