Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2008/June/23


 * 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 explanatory text added to cat page

Unproposed category for Middle Eastern football biography stubs, and a subtype of. Why, then use the non-standard "West Asian"? Rename to. Grutness...wha?  23:23, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, Western Asia is the name in current UN standard geoscheme. (Or were you complaining about the use of West instead of Western?) Still, I grant that Wikipedia generally prefers Middle East over Southwest Asia and doesn't use Western Asia save as a redirect to Southwest Asia. Unless someone wishes to propose replacing MEast-foo-stub with SWAsia-foo-stub, keeping things as Middle East for now makes sense. Caerwine Caer’s whines  01:11, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

AFC sort them as Western Asia, but i agree that Middle East is better. Matthew_hk  t  c  03:51, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Would it be an idea to atleast note on the Category that it is for countries in the West Asian Football Federation area to avoid ambiguity over which countries constitute Middle East (We have split other areas up by Federations leading to Israelis in the Euro cat and Aussues in the Asian), just to make things clear. Waacstats (talk) 12:56, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds fair. This is largely a "ducks in a line" exercise, and any reduction in confusion with adding explanatory notes is probably a good move. (FWIW - and not overly connected to this particular problem - I think that FIFA would be far better off splitting the Asian Confederation into West and East and merging East Asia and Oceania into an EAP region. It would make World Cup qualification less messy all round - especially for us in the Pacific!) PS: Sorry if I sounded grumpy on your talk page Matthew - it had been a bad day :) Grutness...wha?  13:07, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Actually, this should be list as CFD, this is for stubs, es we chould moving cats sounds like a good plan.-- Freewayguy  Msg USC 03:59, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * This is a stub category, and as such is dealt with here at SFD. As I said on one of your comments the other day, you really need to read up about this page and stubs in general before you make too many comments on the individual nominations. Grutness...wha?  01:47, 25 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I have added a note about WAFF to the existing, which btw has several upmerged templates for people from countries which are not in the WAFF. So is the consensus here to create a , which would be the parent of ? Or to eliminate the latter and have only the former? Thanks - Her Pegship  (tis herself) 18:50, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
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