Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2008/June/9

com-stub, redirect

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The result of the debate was delete

Excessively terse and ambiguous redirect to telecomm-stub, which happens to have a fair few others, too. Orphan and delete. Alai (talk) 22:56, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Too ambiguous. Telecommunications? Computers? Companies? Communism? Combinatiroal analysis? Comedy? Comets? Commerce? Comics? Commonwealth? Compounds? Feh. Grutness...wha?  00:27, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Problem is, this was the original name for telecomm-stub until December 2006. Worse, despite it having been some 18 months since then, it hasn't been depopulated and replaced with telecomm-stub in the stubs it marked.  So orphan to telecomm-stub, but keep with notice of what it has been renamed for a while. Suggested code for the notice:
 * Unless you'd rather we not have com-stub feed into the category or there's a template to give the warning notice a standard garish look, I think this would work best. Give the notice about a year to percolate through infrequent stub sorters and then delete it. Caerwine Caer’s whines 23:55, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Mmmm. Nothing garish (I could do with a nice garish notice on the frequently (mis)used china-geo-stub. Perhaps the same sort of message as is on there will do for now until we come up with something louder. Grutness...wha?  01:56, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * That'd be fine, tho since we don't need for people to think which is replacement to use, I could live with something more garish here. Caerwine Caer’s whines 02:46, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not so hot on this idea. Bear in mind that it's not been the "advertised" name for the stub type all that while (I don't believe, at least), so anyone still using it is doing so out of force of habit, or having seen it on another stub, rather than having been "told" it was the thing to be doing.  I'd rather cut the Gordian knot now, on that basis.  There's also the question of just how "deprecated" something has to be to get auto-depopulated, but not deleted:  it's not really in our usual practice, and I can just see someone deciding to complain about it.  But if that option's the flow, I shall try going with it...  Alai (talk) 09:46, 11 June 2008 (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.
 * Mmmm. Nothing garish (I could do with a nice garish notice on the frequently (mis)used china-geo-stub. Perhaps the same sort of message as is on there will do for now until we come up with something louder. Grutness...wha?  01:56, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * That'd be fine, tho since we don't need for people to think which is replacement to use, I could live with something more garish here. Caerwine Caer’s whines 02:46, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not so hot on this idea. Bear in mind that it's not been the "advertised" name for the stub type all that while (I don't believe, at least), so anyone still using it is doing so out of force of habit, or having seen it on another stub, rather than having been "told" it was the thing to be doing.  I'd rather cut the Gordian knot now, on that basis.  There's also the question of just how "deprecated" something has to be to get auto-depopulated, but not deleted:  it's not really in our usual practice, and I can just see someone deciding to complain about it.  But if that option's the flow, I shall try going with it...  Alai (talk) 09:46, 11 June 2008 (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.