Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2006/December/13

Ghost towns

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the stub template and/or category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the template's or category's talk page (if any).  No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was keep top-level Ghost town stubs, delete rest

From WP:WSS/D. Associated with WikiProject Ghost towns. 9 categories. 11 templates that don't conform to the naming guidelines. 7 stub articles total.


 * Category:Ghost town stubs
 * Template:Ghost town stub
 * Template:Ghost town-bio stub
 * Category:African ghost town stubs
 * Template:African ghost town stub
 * Template:Asian-ghost town stub (feeds into the African category for some reason)
 * Category:American ghost town stubs (holds all 7 existing stubs)
 * Template:American-ghost town stub
 * Category:Australian ghost town stubs
 * Template:Australian-ghost town stub
 * Category:British ghost town stubs
 * Template:British Ghost town stub
 * Category:Caribbean ghost town stubs
 * Template:Caribbean-ghost town stub
 * Category:Central American ghost town stubs
 * Template:Central American-ghost town
 * Category:European ghost town stubs
 * Template:European-ghost town stub
 * Category:South American ghost town stubs
 * Template:South American-ghost town stub

Left a notice on the WikiProject talk page 9 days ago, no response. Recommend a definite delete on all except Category:Ghost town stubs with a rename of ghost town stub to ghosttown-stub. The potential is there for a viable and useful stub type, but given the lack of response from the WikiProject, I wouldn't mind a delete of even the root stub type, if that's needed for consensus. Caerwine Caer’s whines 00:04, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * ye ghods. Delete all except possibly the generic one (which should be named as per Caerwine). Even that is pushing things a bit (well, a lot, actually). No real reason why these couldn't be stubbed with appropriate geo and hist stubs instead, if there wasn't a WikiProject. Does lack of response indicate a moribund project, perhaps? Grutness...wha?  01:23, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete all, with the faint possibility of the parent (which if kept should indeed be renamed, though to ghost-town-stub would be a little more intuitive, as the argument for the other is a little "subtle", to put it mildly). There's a possible argument for "historical geography" vs "current geography" (in the discussion on the "Roman" types, I found the counters to this rather weak), but this doesn't seem to be quite the right implementation thereof.  Alai 02:22, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the template's or category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this section.