User:GGT/Stub-free Cyprus

Stub-free Cyprus is a long-term project with the aim of expanding as many of stub-class articles about Cyprus as possible, with the ultimate aim of achieving zero stubs about Cyprus.

The project is inspired by the numerous destubbing challenges that have previously taken place. At the time of initial writing, 15 June 2023, Wikipedia's Cyprus-related coverage suffers from a number of widespread problems, including:
 * The vast majority of articles about Cypriot villages and towns are very short stubs, most of them having been created by one user a decade ago and not having seen much improvement since.
 * There are hundreds of stubs about Cypriot footballers. A lot of these are permastubs, i.e. can never be expanded beyond the stub-class, as the footballers in question do not satisfy WP:GNG. In a lot of cases, this is associated with WP:BLP issues.
 * A lot of the Cyprus-related stubs contain out-of-date information, having been created often over a decade ago and not having received any attention since.

As such, the project envisions a substantial uplift of the encyclopaedic coverage of Cyprus. It will involve improving ("destubbing") Cyprus-related articles where possible, removing stub tags from already-expanded articles where appropriate, but in parallel may involve deletion or merger of non-notable articles that would otherwise remain as permastubs. The deletions and mergers will also thereby aim to balance the systemic bias which has resulted in the coverage of footballers having been prioritised so far. In parallel, new non-stub articles are to be created to expand the coverage of Cyprus, and of course other content issues in longer-standing articles regarding sourcing and neutrality can also be addressed. Although a personal project at the outset, anyone is welcome to contribute - just make a note of your contributions below!

Number of stubs
As of 15 June 2023:
 * Category:Cyprus stubs contains 236 articles
 * Category:Northern Cyprus stubs contains 59 articles
 * Category:Cyprus geography stubs contains 559 articles
 * Category:Cypriot people stubs contains 84 articles
 * Category:Cypriot politician stubs contains 93 articles
 * Category:Cypriot sportspeople stubs contains 166 articles
 * Category:Cypriot football biography stubs contains 307 articles
 * Category:Cypriot women's football biography stubs contains 44 articles
 * Category:Cypriot sport stubs contains 72 articles
 * Category:Cypriot football club stubs contains 113 articles
 * Category:Cypriot football competition stubs contains 41 articles

There are 6 instances of articles being in two of these categories at once. Accounting for this yields a total number of 1,768 stubs.

Articles that have been improved

 * 1) Demetris Kyriakou, 3 July 2023
 * 2) Solution and EU Party, 7 August 2023
 * 3) Balalan, Cyprus, 23 August 2023

Articles that have been nominated for deletion/merger

 * 1) Lenos Georgiou, 15 June 2023
 * 2) Leandros Lillis, 15 June 2023
 * 3) Stelios Longras, 17 June 2023
 * 4) Nikolas Koutsakos, 3 July 2023
 * 5) Andreas Kyriakou, 3 July 2023
 * 6) Demetris Kyprianou, 3 July 2023
 * 7) Andreas Paraskevas, 19 July 2023
 * 8) Aggelos Zefkis, 20 July 2023
 * 9) Panayiotis Ioannou, 7 August 2023
 * 10) Andreas Fragkou, 7 August 2023
 * 11) Konstantinos Georgallides, 7 August 2023

Articles that have had erroneous stub tags removed

 * 1) Cyprus in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014, 15 June 2023
 * 2) Antonio Foti, 15 June 2023
 * 3) Marios Demetriou, 17 June 2023
 * 4) Constantine P. Iordanou, 18 June 2023