Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2008/July/15

CarnivorousPlants-stub /

 * 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 delete

Unproposed, badly named, and badly scoped. If this had been proposed, then it might at least have had the correct name (Carnivorous-plant-stub), and the category would have had some sort of parents (this one has none). More likely than not it would have been rejected overall, though, since for stub-sorting purposes plants are divided by family and genus, not by their personal habits or nourishment. Sure, this has a lot of stubs, but that in itself doesn't make this a valid stub type (I daresay a could be used on tens of thousands of articles, but that wouldn't make it reasonable to have one).

There does appear to be a WikiProject, but - as usual - they'd be far better off with a talk-page banner assessment template rather than a stub type. They already have and use such a template, and - if their project page is anything to go by, they don't know about this stub template (it's not mentioned on either the project page or the talk page). Delete, or at the very least rename and lose the redirect. Grutness...wha?  00:48, 15 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Agree with your reasoning, Grutness. I did notice the new stub type (my watchlist exploded with it being added to a bunch of pages I watch) and had planned on bringing it for discussion here. It was created by a new contributor to WP:CPS who, it seems, is not familiar with the stub proposals list. I think we have it covered with our genus (Nepenthes-stub), family (Lentibulariaceae-stub), and other various taxonomic stub types. We're slowly creating more stubs and so will propose those new taxonomic stubs when we reach critical mass. However, you would be wrong about stub types based on habit. We do have tree-stub and fruit-tree-stub. Cheers, Rkitko (talk) 00:39, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Good point - I'd forgotten about that one, though that's because it intersects with a stub for fruit. IIRC we don't have one for carnivores per se. Grutness...wha?  02:06, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I wasn't thinking when I made the category. Sorry! The Llama! (talk) 15:29, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
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