Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2007/February/4

palm-stub,

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The result of the debate was delete

Unproposed, undersized, badly ambiguous template name. Haven't we delete a PDA type of some sort already? At the very least, needs to be renamed (which I'm likely to speedy, to make room for the actually-proposed-stub-type-about-actual-palms), and upmerged -- ideally not to the bulging "software" type, but perhaps to a PDA-software-in-general category. Alai 09:16, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * We didn't delete, we upmerged palmsoftware-stub, PalmOS-stub and PDA-stub to compu-mobile-stub/ and kept them as redirects/independent templates to the category. (link) The person who created this participated in that discussion but disagreed with the upmerge and created this stub the same day as the the SFD was closed.  Speedy delete and restub with Palmsoftware-stub or PalmOS-stub. Caerwine Caer’s whines  18:16, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, OK: sounds like some deletion was involved to me!  That's what I was struggling to remember, thanks.  Ludicrous behaviour on the part of the recreator, frankly.  (Doubtless we're about to be told what a brilliant application of IAR that was.)  Alai 23:46, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
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FZ-stub,

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The result of the debate was delete

This one made me chuckle, but this group is not likely to grow as Frank Zappa is dead and the article about him contains... exactly one red link, delete. — CharlotteWebb 06:18, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Were it just a matter of size I'd normally suggest renaming and upmerger, but for a stub type derived from one of the much-dreaded "things somehow related to" that make a nonsense of category inclusion, I have to say delete. And if anyone really wants to track spiders and record companies via the same resource, convert to a talk-page template.  Alai 06:48, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Two options: 1) Delete; 2) Take your zircon-encrusted tweezers and go and harvest dental floss.The former is probably simpler. Grutness...wha?  04:38, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong keep - important; extremely useful. (Ibaranoff24 02:33, 6 February 2007 (UTC))
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The result of the debate was delete

I'm not sure what's going on here (no links to the new category at all), but Mac-stub has been recatted to here, less than intuitively. (iPhones are now Macs?). I suggest that either: the template be recatted back, and this deleted; or, the type be formally rescoped, and the template be moved to something more in keeping (in which case, someone please tag the template for such, too). Or the two be split in some manner. Alai 05:29, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * As an explanation for my part in this; I noticed that around the time of the Macworld Expo, when Apple changed their name from Apple Computer, someone had replaced the "Macintosh stubs" category with the "Apple, Inc. stubs" category. Since the use of that comma was incorrect (it's Apple Inc., not Apple, Inc.), I changed the stub to point to a non-misnamed category.  However, I agree with you that we should go back to having a Mac-stub for Mac-related articles, and have Apple-stub (or something along those lines) be the superclass stub for the whole bunch. —Cleared as filed. 15:55, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Makes sense to me. Couldn't tell if this was part of some masterplan, or just the usual series of choatic events.  Alai 23:46, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
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